Cables Books

Not as good as _Me on the Map_, yet a good jumping off point to introduce concepts of time.

This book is a typical college textbook. A lot of definitions... a lot of fairly rudimentary information.

It's a good book for people who want to learn basic information about media marketing, but it goes into little to no depth about most aspects of the field.

I also don't get the sense that the authors -- college professors-- have much of a sense of the industry as it is today. Other than a mention of sniping and on-air bugs (which debuted several years ago), the book seems a little out of touch.

Therefore, I wouldn't recommend it to anyone currently working in media marketing, because you'll learn very little new knowledge.

But, as it's not presented as an intermediate or advanced book, it's a good resource for beginners.

The fact that I was in New Orleans while reading part of this book added to the experience. It is a history of that city and being on location provided a visual element that not everyone can enjoy unless they make the trip.

This book is somewhat straightforward as a historical work. It isn't necessarily colorful or instructive. It's just there. Cable describes the setting, the people, the controveries surrrounding a given location and time.

If you want to know more about the people who developed the city of New Orleans and how it resulted in some of the mindset there today, this book may provide some answers.

As an avid naval strategy reader, I had much anticipated this work's release. However, after finishing it, I was mildly disappointed, as Cable sets overly rigorous standards in defining the allowable circumstances for true political impacts by naval events. For this reason it is often smaller naval incidents which are discussed, rather than most major naval actions.

Also, Cable virtually eliminates all ancient naval actions from consideration, as he views ancient naval activity as being ultimately dependent upon land-based military technology (such as the Roman corvus); this is due to the lack of true naval clash in the modern big-gun ship sense (characteristic only of the last few centuries).

This is not a bad book, but it will definitely appeal mainly to more academic types interested in squeezing analysis out of small, tightly-defined historical circumstances.

didn't see it yet, therefore, can't rate it.

It gave me a lot of facts about my Television. I would have to say order one today!

This book provides VERY useful technical models for creating a video server architecture in 1995. Too bad its the year 2000 and many of the price/performance numbers of the hardware used in the models is woefully out of date. I look forward to an updated version.

Rob Liefeld is the most-hated man in comics today. But back in the late 1980s and early 1990s, he was the hottest artist in the industry. I wonder what happened to his fans then? Maybe they simply grew up and suddenly felt embarrassed over their one-time affection for the steroids-pumped characters of Liefeld?

Check out this volume to see the work that made Rob Liefeld a star in the late '80s. It collects the final issues of New Mutants, a title that was deteriorating until Louise Simonson and Rob Liefeld turned it around with the stories in this volume. And they did it in such a simple fashion - they injected in a Terminator-knock-off called Cable and the book was suddenly infused with a new life, a new energy like never before. And as with every new character to be introduced into the X-Books in those days, there is the inevitable clash with Wolverine, somewhat like a "baptism of fire" or something like that (rest assured, that's also reprinted in this volume).

Much like stone-washed jeans, or that mullet I - I mean, some people - sported in high school, it is difficult trying to explain the appeal of Rob Liefeld's artwork 15 years later. It's obvious now that he had a problem drawing accurate anatomies, dealing with perspective, and that Cable's head shrank a little each issue while his arms and guns kept getting bigger. But at the time, Liefeld's energetic and detailed style provided some much needed (pardon the pun) young blood for an X-title that had become mediocre at best.

The Cable and the New Mutants trade paperback collects all of the early New Mutants issues with Liefeld artwork. The issues are most noteworthy for introducing Cable, a character who would go on to be a major X-Men character. Of course now we all know Cable's origin as the son of Cyclops and Madelyne Pryor (Jean Grey's clone), who was sent into the future as an infant to save his life. At the time though, all we saw was a grim, enigmatic soldier with a huge metal arm.

Upon meeting the New Mutants, Cable decides to forge them into an army to fight against evil in general and a terrorist named Stryfe (also introduced in this volume) in particular. In the course of these issues, Cable and the New Mutants battle Freedom Force (formerly the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants), Stryfe's Mutant Liberation Army, Sabretooth, and even Wolverine (you could tell Liefeld was just aching to draw that particular battle).

These issues essentially laid the groundwork for the end of the New Mutants title and the birth of X-Force, which made Liefeld the hottest name in comics for a brief period of time. Love him or hate him, you can't deny he made a big impact on the comics scene, and his work here does play a key role in the X-Men history.

This is a collection of the New Mutants. It shows how Cable joins the New Mutants , The New Mutants Ne costumes, an Cable vs. Wolverine. And it also shows Stryfe, a mutant who wants to poison the waters of the world, and kill all humans. If you've never read a new mutants comic book though, you can find this to be a bit confusing.

The New Mutants was the first, and probably best, X-Men spin-off
title. Claremont favored telling stories of character, there were many issues which didn't even contain a single battle. But that all ended with Rob Liefeld taking over the title. Although I have come to respect Rob Liefeld over the past few years, what he did with the New Mutants is unforgivable. He changed them from a group of trouble adolescents into a third-rate Teen Titans clones. This book reprints the issues which are the greatest tragedy that ever befell the X-Titles. Do not buy this book.

Very light instruction and content. There are much better books on this subject.

This book uses very simple stitches to maximum effect. I am a silk ribbon embroidery addict and love the designs in it. Sheena Cable also has some unique ideas as to where to put all your designs. Aside from the more predictable pillows and wall hangings, she suggests hats, tablecloths, napkins, curtain valances and tie-backs. All the stitches are simple, but she uses a few not found in many other books. The pictures are all in color and you can see the embroidery clearly. The directions are clear and easy to follow. The book follows a natural progression from easy to more challenging projects. All in all a great beginner book.

In the early 90's, artist Rob Liefeld made a name for himself with smash hit runs on X-Men, New Mutants, and his biggest hit of all, X-Force. Handling both story and art duties, Liefeld is pretty much the guy responsible for all the over muscled guy and abnormally big busted girl character models that became a mainstay in mainstream comics until about the late 90's, and there was never too much input into such things as story, character development, and dialogue. This TPB, collecting the six issue mini-series which re-unites Liefeld and script writer Fabian Nicieza, is pretty much what you would expect from the duo if you read the X-Force comics of old. For no real apparent reason, Cable and Domino re-unite X-Force to stop an enemy from the future, or something to that effect. You're never really sure what is going on because the action is incredibly inane and incoherent with characters popping out of nowhere and disappearing a few panels later with no explanation, and Liefeld's art hasn't changed one bit. Naturally, Wolverine has a guest spot, as does the Human Torch and the Thing of the Fantastic Four; all of which for no apparent reason. This is worth a look for a 90's nostalgia trip if you were an X-Force fan way back when, but for everyone else this is better left on the shelf, and you'd do better by checking out Peter Milligan's X-Force and the later re-titled X-Statix.

Horrible page layouts, terrible proportions, pony tails, little brown pockets, and lines, SO many unnecessary lines. Rob Liefeld is THE quintessential 90s comic book artist: over-blown, over-done, and over-hyped. Never has so little talent taken up so many pages. Run, don't walk, away from anything even remotely associated with Mr. Liefeld.

If you're already familiar with Rob Liefeld's work then you will feel about this book the way you feel about anything anything else he's done. If you love it, you'll love this. If you hate it, you'll hate this.

If you're not familiar with Rob Liefeld's work here's the basics. Rob Liefeld has no formal training. Everything he knows, he's learned from looking at other people's work. His stuff is insanely detailed, but his propotions aren't always right (and occasionally they're downright horrible) and most of the time there's no backgrounds.

That being said, Liefeld has a good head for what's cool. Giant monsters, time-travelers, sword fights, the return of the Mutant Liberation Front, guest appearances by Deadpool, Wolverine, and the Thing and the Human Torch from the Fantastic Four.

The story involves an ugly four-armed sharp-toothed creature called the Skornn, more a force of nature than anything, that feeds on mutants, literally. Cable reassembles X-Force to help him take it down, but things get complicated another time-traveller named Jon Spectre shows up and recruits Cannonball and other X-Force members away from him, saying that Cable will cause a major cataclysmic event in the future. Things get more complicated when the Mutant Liberation Front shows up led by the Stryfe, long thought to be dead. (However it turns out that there's somebody else beneath the mask) But in the end, the Skornn is bigger than all of them, both figuratively and literally, and they must team together to defeat it.

This isn't brilliant, it isn't groundbreaking, it isn't socially redeeming. What it is is fun. It's a comic book about a team of superheroes who saves the world.

I have a certain fascination with the early 90s X-Books, mainly as a guilty pleasure-aside from Peter David's writing on X-Factor, the Jim Lee era on Uncanny X-Men/X-Men, and John Romita Jr. returning to the art chores on Uncanny X-Men-so it was with that in mind that I picked up this book. I was never the biggest Liefeld fan (I was more of a fan of Jim Lee's work at the time), but there were times when the Liefeld/Nicenza team on X-Force did some interesting things, certainly changing up the long time dynamic that Claremont had established. And I also have liked the character of Cable, despite his overly complex origin and background, so I figured it was worth a shot.

Frankly I wish I hadn't taken it.

The story, such as it was, is utterly incoherent; it appears to have been written solely to create splash pages featuring guest star characters (why oh why are Wolverine, Deadpool, and two members of the Fantastic Four in this?) rather than, you know, advance the plot. There's maybe two issues of story here tops, and it's dragged out endlessly, only to be resolved in the same old way Cable stories were resolved before, in terms of Noble Sacrifice. Plot threads are introduced and then dropped in pages, old ideas are rehashed for the ten thousandth time (a time travel story involving Cable, what a shock) and there's a SHOCKING RETURN OF A SUPPOSEDLY DEAD...oh heck, Strfye comes back in the utterly lamest and most pointless way possible, just so Liefeld can use his orignal concept for the character, and that serves absolutely no purpose at all in the plot. In fact, building a story around the unlikely return of Stryfe, with the same punch line, would have worked far better than this.

I used to cut Liefeld a lot of slack when he was the plotter/artist on X-Force because he was rather young at the time (I want to say early 20s?) but he's had almost twenty years in the business now; you'd think he would have picked up on rudimentary storytelling by now. This story barely hangs together at all, and isn't really the return to the old X-Force style I was expecting in the least.

The only positive notes? It's nice to see a return of the Cannonball of the old X-Force days (Nicenza always wrote Sam Guthrie as being a strong, talented leader), even if it doesn't quite last...Tabitha (Meltdown) is still hot, and gets a scene of utterly unexpected awesomeness, even if it doesn't fit the character a bit. That raises it to two stars ( 1.5 would be more accurate)

If you're feeling nostalgic for the early 90s period X-books, this is not the place to start.