It's a case where I can see the appeal - from both a marketing and a readership perspective - but you've got to be really careful how you handle events like that or they become impossible to follow. And following the Marvel universe is hard enough at the best of times, which must put off a lot of new readers who don't know where to start.

Yes, exactly. It's almost hard to follow X-Crossovers, and following bigger ones, where Avengers, Hulk, Fantastic Four and more... well, it's impossible. And bless the erase of continuity Marvel did some years ago (and I hate this oh-old-episode-didn't-happen thing. ><)

As I said in the main essay, IMO he does start to improve after a while (at least in his better moments) - enough that the character we see in C&DP can be seen as the result of logical progression and character development rather than a complete reinterpretation of the character. But he does look so bad on casual inspection that without Deadpool around, I probably wouldn't have hung around long enough to find out. ^^;

I'll give Cable a try then, when I'll have time and space (I can't really afford to actually buy the -little- Cable related who made it to Italy).

I'd even settle for any current title even admitting C&DP happened these days. Instead, they seem to be going out of their way to make it sound like they were never friends at all - and from what little I've seen, it looks like they've undone all Cable's character development and sent him back to being the insufferable arse he was when he first showed up. >_<

I had this impression when reading Messiah War and the tie-in with X-Force. Even if, with that Wade around, a little oh-well-we-were-friends-or-wedds-ast it was shown. ç_ç