Matthew Cable
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Search complete. 33 mentions across 5 episodes found for "Matthew Cable".
Nov 3, 2026
JordanHOST
It's Matt.
JordanHOST
Matt Cable.
JordanHOST
He's come home.
JordanHOST
Uh-oh.
Marcus ParksGUEST
I am a DC guy through and through Marvel.
Marcus ParksGUEST
There are certain runs that I like and certain characters that I like, but I just could never grasp the Marvel universe in a way that I grasp and know and love the DC universe.
Holden McNeelyHOST
That makes sense.
Holden McNeelyHOST
I mean, the darkness inherent to the DC universe just fits you really well.
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Mike LawrenceHOST
There's a... detective chimp named detective chip and a haunted tank named Jeb.
Mike LawrenceHOST
But you know, it's like, and then, and then what they also did around this time when crisis was happening was they were buying up other, uh, companies like IPs and stuff like Shazam, you know, Blue Beetle and Captain Adam and all that stuff.
Mike LawrenceHOST
Like, you know, Watchmen was those characters and Alan Moore was like, I'll go get me
speaker_3UNKNOWN
hands on them.
Tony EsmondHOST
He's saved everyone, isn't he? You find out later on that he's jumped out of the plane and sort of contained a lot of the crashing of it.
Tony EsmondHOST
And on it is Matt Cable.
Tony EsmondHOST
Incidentally, Matt Cable later on in the series, especially under Nesta Redondo, ends up looking like... um he's an action man character uh abigail arcane and paul robin now you know um speak just quickly about um the origin of swamp thing which appeared in house secrets do you know who that was on the cover who that was modeled on no no wheezy because obviously she was she was with she was uh louise jones at the time because she was with jeffrey who later became jeffrey catherine jones so they modeled the cover on them
Daniel ButcherHOST
there they go
Tony EsmondHOST
Abigail Arcane she's one of the hotties of comics
Justin ZyduckHOST
The demon also takes control of the countess's body by taking the form of a fly and zipping into her mouth, which is sort of a parallel to like how Roger becomes part of the homunculus, right? He jumps in there.
Justin ZyduckHOST
Also, Swamp Thing fans will recall that's how Arcane takes over Matt Cable's body, right? Sure.
Justin ZyduckHOST
All true.
Jim CannonHOST
Hellboy and Abe arrive and start poking around.
Curt HolmanHOST
Right.
Kevin MoreauHOST
She marries Matt Cable, so she's sort of the, um, the, the beauty to Swamp Thing's beast with their kind of Beauty and the Beast relationship.
Kevin MoreauHOST
And a few issues before this one we're gonna talk about, they, um ...
Kevin MoreauHOST
He was shot and believed dead, Swamp Thing was.
Kevin MoreauHOST
Etrigan attacks the Monkey King, and Swamp Thing urges Abby to run to the swamp with Paul.
Kevin MoreauHOST
Etrigan catches up with them and threatens to kill Paul, his earth, the Monkey King's earthly anchor, but Swamp Thing fends him off.
Kevin MoreauHOST
Matt Cable is dying in the wrecked car, but a talking fly offers to save his life.
Kevin MoreauHOST
The Monkey King catches up to Abby and turns into Matt.