Sometimes it seems like you're damned if you do and damned if you don't with team books. If you spend early issues establishing the cast and their collective mission, the series is boring and formulaic. But if you simply throw readers into the deep end, they'll either drown or float there wondering what the point of it all is in the first place.
Somehow, Dennis Hopeless has managed to wrestle with both problems at once on Cable and X-Force. Thanks to the massively jumbled approach Hopeless has taken to the first arc's chronology, we've seen the beginning, the end, and various chunks of the middle in these first two issues. But even at the end of issue #2, there's only the vaguest sense of why this team has assembled or what they're trying to accomplish. The series is being too obtuse in setting up its mission statement. And in the process, it's providing a mess of poor scene transitions. In one instance, Cable's brain is being scanned for abnormalities. When next he appears, he's waking up from extensive brain surgery. It really seems like a more linear approach to establishing the team would help the series.
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