Spoilers for Cable 11 ahead!

Cable has one of the most convoluted timelines of any character in the Marvel Universe, and in Cable #11, on sale now in print and digital, the issue pokes gentle fun at the sometimes confusing nature of the character’s backstory.

Cable is the son of Cyclops and Madeline Pryor, a clone of Jean Grey. An Omega-level mutant, Cable was infected with a techno virus as an infant that would have killed him, but he was sent to the future where hopefully a cure could be found. It's in the future that he became a battle-hardened warrior. Cable would return as an adult to the present day and take control of the New Mutants, reorganizing them into X-Force. Cable has leapt through many eras, ranging from the present to the far-flung future. It can be tough keeping track of the character’s travels through the time stream—for instance, a teenage Cable is the book’s current star but has just teamed up with his adult self, and in his latest issue, Cable’s complex backstory gets called out.

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A text excerpt featured in the book called “Cable’s War Wagon Deployment Log” tracks the movements of Cable’s vehicle, the War Wagon. It begins in 1992, before jumping ahead 29 years to 2021, then ahead two more years before leaping back to 1918 to the “Tunguska racing catastrophe" and then it leaps ahead almost a thousand years to 2901. Then it’s back to 1978, on to 2099 before concluding in 2015. A note at the bottom calls these movements “untold events” that have already happened, readers just do not know about them yet.

Cable War Wagon

The dates in the War Wagon’s deployment log are all over the place, jumping from era to era with no obvious sense of purpose. Cable himself has jumped throughout various time frames, and as the War Wagon is his craft, it stands to reason Cable was in it during these jumps. It's notable that almost all of the dates correspond to either historical events or allusions to other comics. Tunguska was the site of a mysterious explosion in 1918; while the official story is a comet hit, speculation has raged since and Marvel has revealed Cable may have been behind it. 2099, a popular year in Marvel history, gets a shout out, as does the Secret War event, which was published in 2015. The Log serves as not only a commentary on Cable’s many leaps through history, but also connects the character’s jumps to the larger Marvel Universe.

Cable has one of the most convoluted timelines in comics, as is usually the case with time-travelers. Marvel knows Cable’s timeline can be hard to figure out, and the War Wagon Log in Cable #11 shows the creators know that, too. The issue is written by Gerry Duggan, with art by Phil Noto and letters by Joe Sabino.

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