Cable 24, Dark X-Men 5

I'm just going to touch very quickly on these two. Suffice it to say I was not terribly impressed.

Dark X-Men 5
This series showed more promise than I expected in its first couple of issues, but this promise is more or less squandered in the final issue. There's some interesting ideas in here about the nature of Norman Osborn's psychosis, but the story itself is largely unsatisfying. I'm not sure I understand the rationale behind resurrecting Nate Grey only to more permanently kill him (unless you really hate Nate Grey, which might be understandable); it just seems like lazy writing. And we don't gain much in the way of new insight about the titular characters, which seems the bare minimum you'd expect to justify writing the series in the first place.

Cable 24
Nothing new here as Cable and Hope's time traveling finally comes to a close. This story might be more interesting if it wasn't the same story that Duane Swierczynski has told in every issue since the series began. We do see Bishop finally defeated and actually expressing doubts about his decision to pursue Hope, but overall it's the same old same old. Caracuzzo's art is capable, but there are some odd scenes that don't seem well plotted; Cable is lying on the ground and then standing in the very next frame; Cable and Hope break into a car, then wind up on the opposite sides of the same car in the next frame; just a couple examples of things that seem like things that should've been caught either by the artist or the editor, and they're bad enough that they're distracting from the narrative.