Bowen Designs: Cable mini-bust

Here we go! A rather mainstream character from Bowen.

Produced By Bowen Designs
Sculpted By The Kucharek Brothers
Size 7" tall
Type Bust
Edition Size TBD
Release Date September 2009
Price $60.00

Zimm's Two Cents
At first, I passed over this one, but as I look at it a little bit more, I'm actually starting to like it.
Points in Favor

• Sculpted by The Kucharek Brothers. I have usually been rather pleased with their statues and busts.
• $60 is still not too bad of a price for a good statue.
• While it is a simple bust, it fits the statue and character.
• Attention to detail in the gun, shoulder pads, and overall costume.

Points Against

• I never liked his original shoulder pads or the guns that he carried at times.

Recommendation: Neutral. If you are a true Cable fan, then you probably don't mind some of the negatives that I pointed out on this bust; however, there are images floating around of an upcoming Cable statue release, which you will definitely want to hold off and wait for.

If anything, I would prefer a more up-to-date version of Cable with a corresponding Deadpool bust.

Robert's Two Cents
This is a classic Cable in all of his Rob Liefeldy goodness. I have one issue with the bust which I'll get into below.

Points in Favor

• Price isn't too bad. There's a lot of detail for the money.
  
• The base, while not as sophisticated and fancy as we may like, it fits Terminat...I mean Cable perfectly.
  
• It is classic Cable.
  

Points Against

• Here's my problem. The head is in proportion. This is Cable his head should be way smaller in proportion to his body. Plus his face needs to be scrunched in more.
  

Recommendation: Buy. I will admit, I was a huge Cable/Rob Liefeld fan in the day. I'm only a little embarrassed to say it out loud. It was an interesting time in Marvel comics. While I've participated in my share of Liefeld bashing, I enjoyed almost all of the comics he drew through the early Youngblood issues. He brings an energy to the page that few can match. The mistake he made was abandoning his writers and inkers. Once he began inking himself in the last 3 issues of New Mutants, he went downhill from there.

I'm actually eternally grateful to Rob Liefeld, it was X-Force #8 that hooked me on Mike Mignola's artwork.