I don’t get why people knock them, pouches are very useful
June 6, 2016
8:09 am
Eugh, this isn’t my better art but I had an important work file get corrupted and had to back track a bunch so I didn’t even get to start this one until 3AM.
Anyway, yeah, based on the real life experience of having like thirteen pockets. I’ve lost multiple pairs of headphones in the same jacket.
I’m not the most fluent on X-men beyond the old 90’s TV show but am I right in guessing that to be Cable?
Yes, it also says it in the tags. To be honest, I only really knew it was him before I read the tags because of all of his pockets.
As we used to say, “LIEFEEEELLLLLLDDDD!”
Used to?
Well, he’s had more competent* artists handle him since.
*: read: remotely
“Used to?”, indeed.
I always forget the tags, but the cybernetic arm was the giveaway for me.
Glad to know I wasn’t the only one who knew it by his arm.
You do realize that a ridiculous number of people in comics have metal arms. I can think of three, the third’s name alludes me, and there are likely a lot more than that.
Yeah, but he has those ‘X’ thingies that are all over the X-men, and Cable is the only one I can think of with ONE metal arm.
Forge?
Forge had a cybernetic hand and leg
I made that post before itwas colored in, and the X’s where much less noticable, I kinda missed them. But now, yeah its totally cable. The white hair is also a sign.
Pretty sure it’s Cable. And I think the ridiculous number of pouches started as a Rob Liefeld affectation
It did. Though I hear what made Cable a good, still-existing character was other people. Not Liefeld.
That’s what I’ve heard. Not being much for comicbooks I really only know him from the online rants and that Captain Peck-Merica illustration, which jeez, I think would have Rock’s space-future Superior Officers asking to have it toned back.
Did Liefeld make anything popular?
Back in the early 90’s, Liefeld was king. Seriously. That’s why he got handed so many books. It was like everything he touched became popular back then. But, like most popularity, it was short lived as people slowly realized how stupid it all was.
I mean, he’s who created both Cable and Deadpool, and he was a founding member of the Image Comics group. It’s not like he didn’t do any popular stuff in his day. His peak popularity just didn’t last more than a few years.
Finally, Cable remembers that he’s telekinetic and doesn’t bother with keys, because he can just use his mind to pick any locks he comes across.
Alternatively, Cabel decides that his fucks are to perecious to be given over little things like key displacement, and decides from then on to have small objects orbit him instead.
And here I thought it was Kiera Knightley. She’s got some good acting range.
It’s funny because I personally find Kierra Knightly a pretty mediocre actor who basically only knows how to brood, tantrum, and clench her teeth. Which upon reflection is pretty much all you need to play Cable.
You might have discovered an aspect of Deadpool’s remark that didn’t dawn on many.
I will absolutely be fine with Kiera Knightly playing Cable, so long as Deadpool is actually ugly next time instead of a really handsome guy with not even the worst case of sunburn I’ve ever seen.
… I would actually be fine with Kiera Knightly playing Cable anyway, but I’ll use any leverage to get a properly lumpy Deadpool.
I’m really glad that I’m not the only person that thought Deadpool just…really wasn’t all that ugly.
I call it “Phantom of the Opera” Syndrome, because when they did Phantom of the Opera for the movies they cast a guy who was so hot none of their work on making him ugly worked.
Once I realized Keira Knightley is basically just female John Wayne / stoic person / cowboy I liked her a lot more.
I think the problem really is she keeps getting miscast into roles that need emotive actors because she’s female and directors just assume she’s got a wide motive range.
I really dislike John Wayne as well (doesn’t help that he was a flagrant racist who believed natives deserved what they got for not willingly handing their land over)
My money is on Stryfe, who was cloned from or cloned to Cable
Sorry, I can’t deal with more than four pockets, let alone thirteen. I cry when I have more than four.
I cry when I have less than five. If I ever end up with too few pockets on a jacket maybe I’ll send it your way.
Coats in any shop I visit never have enough pockets for me. If anyone has tips on where to acquire more pockets that’d be swell.
SCOTTeVEST is a coat company that basically exists entirely to make coats with ridiculous numbers of pockets, so that might be a good place to look.
This place is pretty amazing. If I were rich I’d probably get clothes *exclusively* from here.
Thanks for the referral!
Sound like a place that needs a sideline selling Jelly Baby gummies and long multi-colored scarves.
A “Tardis Overcoat” would come in handy until you figure out that the Tardis isn’t exactly a safe “weirdness magnet / bag-of-holding” thing to hang around.
just sew extra ones inside yourself
*Disclaimer: Do not sew pockets inside yourself
YOU’RE NOT MY SUPERVISOR.
I do have a friend who is *nearly* a surgeon. Maybe I could call in a favour…
Poaches. Just hook them onto your belt and you’re good. They’re like the kick-ass cousin of the phaney pack.
Google ‘Photographer’s Gilet’. It’s possible to buy them in sequential sizes and wear as layers for maximum pocketage.
I just use a Molle vest. if i dont have enough pockets i can just attach more
Ah, Rob Liefeld. He gave us Deadpool and Cable, but he also gave us anatomically incorrect characters with improbable guns, insane pouches, impossible muscles, and no feet.
He’s the guy who gave us Captain America with a shelf for pecs.
The funny thing is, I think I know EXACTLY which image you are referring to.
Aaaah, the wonders of Leifield. His work can fill an entire ‘Riply’s believe it or not’ museum.
Just have one dedicated “key pocket” and keep your keys in that every time. Makes finding em simple.
From actual experience of having a utility style belt (cause I’d rather have that then a purse when I don’t have pockets) this is actually the solution.
Bat Woman?
Where do I get a utility belt?
I know where he put the keys. …Locked ’em in the car. Yep. (WHAT? NO? …No coat hanger trick? Sigh.) :P
Or, maybe Commander got tired of waiting zipped back in time and grabbed the keys, then popped forward and handed them to cable.
Which would mean The Commander is at fault for Cable looking for his keys in the first place because he took them.
Remeber how Commanders time travel works. As long as you don’t think about it, nothing goes wrong. That was the most not-thinking-about-it solution I could come up with.
On my last flight, my chosen attire was cargo pants with 6 pockets, a hoodie with 3 pockets, and an Oxford shirt with 2 pockets, because fuck having to check an extra bag for my stuff.
This turned out to be a terrible, terrible idea when I had to try and find my phone in all those pockets to update my wife, only to forget where I put it 3 minutes later and have to look through every damn pocket again.
Ihave this huge driza-Bone coat I used to wear EVERYWHERE regardless of weather for the same reason I could hold a 1.25l bottle of softdrink in one of the pockets no probs
The correct action in that case is the “I have to many pockets and not enough phone macarena”
I’ve been keeping myself stabilized at 6 pockets with cargo pants. More than that I suppose it’d just be overkill.
I can’t do storage pants they keep trying to fall down on me regardless of how much circulation my belt cuts off. I tend to stick with an oversized driza-bone coat that I’ve had so long that one of the pockets has started coming loose
If you use construction-style suspenders (or a shoulder holster), you can wear a belt fairly loosely and the suspenders (looping through the belt, after all) will carry the load. To fashion police saying “no belts and suspenders,” I respond “shoulder holster. With handgun. Go away.”
Think I formally threw up a middle finger at the fashion police when I started casually wearing shoulder armour in my day-to-day.
I’ve always wondered how Liefeld imagines the thich pocket belts to work. Does he expect the characters to constantly flex their leg muscles to keep those belts up? They’re always placed where the thighs are the thickest too, rather than above the thickest of the muscles. I’m surprised no one (especially Deadpool) didn’t just grab a thigh pouch and yank it down to trip an opponent.
Looking at some of the things he’s drawn I also wonder how he imagines feet work (they frequently seem to be hovering en pointe) and spines work (ass and boobs in the same pose).
They’re attached via a combination of high friction material (probably some kind of rubber) and pressure. If you can make those things with enough friction resistance then you’re pants are more likely to tear off than the pouches slide off. Also, it could be part of the pants.
I always figured that the pouch belts attached to Velcro spots sewn on the tights.
Liefield: “You like Batman’s utility belt? Heck, I can make characters wearing 6 utility belts!”
(Or he ripped the concept off the character of “Tarantula” (from All Star Squadron) wore lots of pouches in his brown & black outfit). He had storage pouches on his boots (rattle rattle jingle all the way with a Spider-Man grapple gun that preceded the existence of Spider-Man.
GOOLGLE[ tarantula all star squadron ]
Rob Liefield has a knack for taking impractical tacky ideas and ramping them past 11 on the 1-to-10 scale until they were amusing again.
I personally knocked them because it was Rob Liefeld’s fix for drawing tricky part o the anatomy of the characters he was drawing. that being said: you made it work by making the belts symmetrical as opposed to that jumbled mess that made no sense from most standpoints. Of course either Cable or Rock could have just gone back 5 minutes in time to find the keys, but then of course it’s the principle of the matter. I’m sure Cable would see that as giving up.
Of course, if they do that then it becomes the whole reason they coudn’t find the keys in the first place
Unless they go back in time, find the keys, leave them where they are, and pop back to go pick them up.
I’m fine with either one of these solutions.
Go back in time, find the keys, put them somewhere really obvious (e.g . First pouch Cable checked) so that they can find them, so they no longer need to go back in time, so they don’t move the keys, so they can’t find the keys, so they go back in time…
HAIL HELIX!
I here I thought Cable was all about teleporting all over the place
Have we ever seen Cable (or any other pouchcovered Liefeld character for that matter) actualy use any of their pouches?
I remember a story where Deadpool had a rummage through his pouches and found something that reminded him of a bet he’d made with another kid back in school(but who he hadn’t seen since), so he set out to find the guy and make good on it.
Sounds like a Plotline MacGuffin stuffed into Shrodinger’s box…It was a dead issue until they needed a plot & Deadpool looked into the pouch.
haha my friend lost her entire phone in a pocket…there was a tear and it slipped between the lining and died. She thought she had been pickpocketed. It took 3 days to find that phone, hidden inside the back.
Honestly I’m thinking of making the switch completely, I feel like pouches hold more than pockets and won’t chafe my legs on a hot day. They’re terribly practical.
At some point, you’d think he would just use a purse. Sorry, Man-Bag.
Yeah, maybe a Man-Bag might be a bit more practical. His Man-*Pouch* carries a guy’s most valuable equipment already…
The biggest gun in his arsenal?
Um, hey, if Cable’s half metallic, how would his private parts look? Would they even work?
Well, they’d be the best that money can buy…
The real question would be: Are his pubes steel wool?
If his metallic side has them, maybe.
Purses can be just as aweful to find stuff in. Because stuff tends to accumulate in there.
Ah, but this is where the wonders of having tons of pockets inside and on the outside of the bag comes in. And extra pouches (bag tidies?) you can swap between bags, and hold different things – one has my medication, one has a sewing kit and spectacle repair kit, one has my dice and gaming gear, one has teabags, disposable handwarmers, and condoms (you do not want to get those mixed up), one has a spare battery pack plus cables for charging my phone, etc. I can mix and match as appropriate. for the occasion.
…wouldn’t that cause you to run into the exact same problem that he’s having in the comic, though?
I’m just keeping the first four panels on repeat – the gag goes on and on, with Rock butting in on occasion.
Of course, where are the keys really? Cable locked them in the car.
I started wearing more men’s pants because they have pockets. Like you, I can and will lose shit in all my pockets, but they are so wonderful…
If you like pockets, check out 5.11s. They are very pocketful, even the more “streetwear” styles, and they come in women’s and men’s. If it doesn’t have at least one magazine pocket, it’s not 5.11s. They also tend to last a really long time,which is awesome.
Playing the 90s X-Men theme in my head as I read this one.
I… that just makes the first for panels all the more hilarious. XD
Cable should take organization tips from Batman.
Pedantic question: So, when counting pockets, if a pocket has another pocket inside it, is it still counted as two different pockets? Or is it just a single pocket with a subdivision?
And a tangentially related Overwatch question: Did anyone else instantly get an “Oh, hello there Cable” vibe from Soldier 76?
I count pockets inside pockets as more pockets. That weird little change pocket on jeans is a pocket.
Is that what those pockets are for?
I keep my keys in them.
It’s actually for a pocket watch, back when people carried them. But since people don’t carry them anymore, it has become a coin pocket.
Originally the pockets were made to keep pocket watches in, now more commonly they’re referred to as change pockets. Well, at least the people I’ve known.
When I was a kid I asked my dad and he called it his change pocket… effective to the point that whenever we went to the swimming pool… change EVERYWHERE, cause he forgot it was even in there XD I mean, c’mon, keep it in your purse- cue him telling me he had a wallet not a purse.
Nowadays I have wallets with change pockets X3
As for the pockets (getting back on topic) prefer to put small things in them that I need to keep handier, sometimes change, sometimes keys, sometimes pens… so whatever you want them to to be honest. ^^
I only just recently bought a pair of jeans with coin pockets big enough to be useful. Before that they were always just decorative flaps of fabric.
By that logic, my pants alone have 14 pockets. All of which contain something.
see, pockets are great.
I have cargo pants made by Caterpillar, and they have… twenty-three pockets? Two back pockets, one with Velcro closure and one without (2); two hip pockets, each with a removable pocket flap that is one full-size pocket with three smaller pockets attached to the front of it (+10); two knee pad pockets, which allow me to have comfortable knee protection at all times (+2); two open pockets and one Velcro pocket on the right thigh (+3); and a large Velcro pocket on the left thigh with a smaller Velcro pocket and four small, open pen pockets on it (+6). Yup, that’s twenty-three pockets altogether. The pants also have a hammer holster on the right thigh, and the belt loops on the far-left and -right have Velcro flaps that can be used to hang things off your hips, or secure an additional tool belt or something. My pants weigh about seven pounds. I hold them up with heavy-duty, Y-strap, button-on suspenders. My undershirts and overshirts have pockets, too, but who’s counting?
Yo dawg..I heard you like pockets…
With great pockets comes great responsibility. I cite and paraphrase Schlock Mercenary. “Great, [you gave the grunts pockets]. Now they’re all going to want things to put in their pockets.”
They sort of mitigated that in military Boot Camp, to some extent…The uniforms have pockets, but they tell that you can’t use them.
Damn character designs were silly in the 90’s. People look back and laugh at the silver age, but for my money the 90’s were a much sillier time in comics.
Maybe, but the stupidity of the 90’s was mostly caused by a small number of inexplicably popular artists, while the Silver Age existed throughout the entire industry.
I see people take the piss out of the 90s comics just as much as the silver age ones, and they tend to do it more freely. Plus with the silver age there’s also this reverence to offset it, which the 90s doesn’t get
Been waiting to see Cable – is there any chance of his teenage AU counterpart, Nate Grey appearing? Because honestly, either grumpy teenager Nate – who could function as Cable’s Jared – or slightly odd Shaman Nate could prove hilarious.
The trick with multiple pockets is tactile tagging. Put something in the pocket or discreetly on the outside that makes that pocket feel Odd to thet ouch and you will always rememeber what is in it. From a piece of tape to elastics anything can help.
Just as an aside, there’s rumours swirling that Cable will be in Deadpool 2. Remember that you did this page when the same joke appears in the film :D
Does it really count as a rumour when it was in the post credits scene?
You can never have enough pockets. That is honestly my biggest complaint with most women’s clothing the lack of useful friggin pockets. So tired of buying jeans with pockets that do jack shit. I could careless about showing off my damn ass.
I WANT USEFUL POCKETS!
Ok, my sister has been complaining about this for ages, and everytime I tell her the same thing. ‘If you want pockets that badly, stop buying the stupid jeans with the uselesd pockets, then get your friends to do the same and spread the word. Cause if enough girls only bought pants with actually pockets, people would make tight fitting jeans with deep pockets.
I do my damn best but when the options are so limited you often have little choice because it is what fits. Plus a large chunk of people are just shallow.
Oh My God this is such a traumatizing comic XD My heart drops into my stomach whenever I can’t immediately find my car keys in one of my two pockets. The dude is in HELL!
I think at a certain threshold, a certain density of pockets collapses like too much density into a singularity, breaching the layers of reality and poking a hole into the dimension where lost socks vanish to from the dryer, and loose change is exiled to from between couch cushions…
Cable: Damn you Rob Liefeld!
Me: Dude, you’re drawn like an actual human being, stop complaining.
Also he isn’t stuck with permanently barred teeth. That can’t be good for your gums.
I don’t know my X-Men very well but isn’t Cable the one that pals around with Deadpool? That makes him OK in my book.
This is correct, and as long as it’s the iteration I’m familiar with, he’s also cyclopse’s kid and time travels.
Yeah, I got a ScottEVest a year and a half ago when I accepted my old light jacket needed to be replaced, and I love the pockets so much I just wear it year-round (It’s the “tropiformer” so I can take off the sleeves during the summer).
Unfortunately my actual encumbrance limit is low so I can’t just carry *everything* I could possibly want without getting a sore back. But all my cables and adapters and bits and bobs are stored away and I can’t even lose my headphones because they’re threaded through the lining from my breast pocket to my neck.
Pockets are great.
Many pockets and big purses cause the same problem. This is why I had my sister give me a Deadpool lanyard for my birthday- hook it to the purse strap or wear it around your neck and the keys can always be found!
Always found it strand people had a problem with pockets but had no trouble with spandex and caps.
Cable and the Winter Soldier would make for the most metal high five ever.
*CLANG* “You, uh… you been hangin’ around Magneto, there, Nate?” “Yeah, how’d you know?” “Because we’re stuck together.”
Their may come a day when an article of clothing has “too many” pockets. But that likely won’t happen until we have infinite pocket dimensions in our pockets, at which point the number of pockets beyond one is both irrelevant and silly. You already have one unending space to search for your car keys in, why would you ever need two?
I once saw a jacket that had six big pockets, two breast pockets, two inside pockets, and two stomach pockets. And the inside both had a secondary smaller pocket inside them, and the stomach pockets had those as well, along with a sideways hand pocket like on a hoodie that was placed beneath and to the side of the stomach pockets. And then, there was a smal pocket on the inside abouy the colar bone that was made to hold an ipod nano. It was a grand total of 13 pockets, which when paired up with the equally rediculous cargo pants I had at the time, made a grand total of 25 pockets. I could hold practically any number of nerd equipment whilr walking to my friends house, and still have my hands free to play my game boy.
They is called uniforms. Here’s an 8-pocket version (not shown is a hoodie-style pocket in the back, accessible both left and right handed, with a zipper on each side (where your police guy/girl would have their handcuffs and assorted ziplocks to contain their prey)). Added bonus these things are all but indestructible; I’ve worn one for 15 years before it literally (literally-literally, not the other kind) came apart. And this from somebody who will regularly tear against an overgrown hedge or building facade to make space for the family of 17 coming past the other way.
Don’t mind me if that link doesn’t work, I can’t tags.
Please tell me these come in leather.
Not to my knowledge I’m afraid.
YAY! COLOOORR…! (I still think he locked ’em in the car, tho’. …Or he coulda. Theoretically, y’know.)
Theoretically, wouldn’t Cable be from the same military as Commander? He’s a super soldier from the future also… Okay, sure he’s a mutant infected with a cybernetic technovirus, fighting against the literal Apocalypse, but still…
No, Cable is one generation into the future, Commander is way farter into the future.
Cable isn’t one generation into the future. As a baby, he was infected with a disease, and his quantum-half-sister took him into the far future to find a cure. That future was ruled by Apocalypse, so Cable grew up fighting against him, and eventually came back to the present because it’s apparently easier to stop a powerful megalomaniac with designs on world conquest than it is to stop a more-powerful megalomaniac who has succeeded at world conquest.
Two weeks later…
when i first looked at this page, i thought this was to show of how sexy a man can be when properly built, and what poses he could use to make us drool
That’s one of the unstated purposes of MGDMT in general, really.
Yeah, Cable is actually pretty hot here. I kinda want to see more of a *cough* rear shot.
Hmmm… you know, a Displaced Time Travelers support group should be in CB’s office too…
What does it have in its pockets precious?
Ah, Cable. Anybody remember his ‘brother’ Stryfe? Poor guy – no pouches, just super shiny nipples on his super overkill costume.
No wonder he turned out bad.
I always liked the letters column in The Punisher where a reader asked what he keeps in all those pockets. Answer was subway tokens.
My theory is he dropped it in his jockstrap.
Also I love the fact that he’s got a little estate car, or is that Lobster’s?
Commander drives a red 1957 Chevy Impala.
Useful? Yes. Convenient? Your mileage may vary.
I prefer a backpack. Load it up with soda and junk food from Early’s and enjoy some snacking time while playing Brutal Doom when I get home.
I’m actually quite impressed with the attention to anatomy here. It’s good ^3^
*whispers violently*gimme dat cablepool
The hard part is when summer comes, and suddenly it’s too hot to wear your storage clothing. Where am I going to put my MP3 player and speakers and keys and spare snacks and flashlight and phone and writing implements and more snacks and chapstick and spare change and backup snacks and Kindle and stuff?! Not in these so called “Cargo” shorts!
You know it occurred to me only just now, but after searching all his pouches, he still has storage space in his prosthetics. At least, according to some comics and cartoons, he can open up his arm and leg to store or interface with things.
I have waited so long for this issue to be addressed this way and was not disappointed. Poor Nate, Lifeldism (Pouch strain) is a lifelong struggle lol.
I now what to see a MC just covered in Belts and Pouches and for there to never be a reason for it, but SC’s would still as.
…And now I wonder why we don’t see these two together all the time. They have a lot in common. They should be buddies.
I feel like you should just continue this comic for another two strips and showing Cable still searching for his keys and Commander getting increasingly exasperated. By the time he finds them, Commander has WALKED to his destination and back.
I think I may see why so many people are having problems identifying Cable. His right eye is missing the three scars, and his right eye should be flat-out glowing rather than just white.
LEFT eye should be glowing, darn it, sorry.
I’m amused more because this is how I feel when I use a Purse with NO pockets, “It’s in here SOMEWHERE Gorramit!
had to take off my cargo pants yesterday to find my headphones. Also a big Cable fan since the Rob days, so maybe this is karma
Nice addition of the (reverse side) butt-n-boobs shot.