Before we begin, I just have to let you know that, no, Hope does not hold a gun to Cable's head, as depicted on the cover (pet peeve #2).
This issue is slow, in part because it's a down-time issue. Colossus and Domino do the sensible thing and get drunk on tequila before having sex and then Colossus does the unsensible thing of turning himself into the authorities. Forge and Dr. Nemesis do the similarly unsensible thing (given that they're trying to lie low) of building huge robots to fight each other in front of a crowd as Cable does the equally unsensible thing of visiting Hope (whose house is monitored by S.H.I.E.L.D.) to tell her that he can't take her with him this time. (We also have Cable inexplicably becoming part of a motorcycle gang, which, honestly, didn't make a whole lot of sense.)
The point of this issue seems to be to give the team a moment before they become the bad-ass outlaw X-Force. Cable has another vision, delaying their ability to get to the bottom of the Eat-More incident and clear their names. It's an overly convenient excuse, but it does at least fit in the context of the story that Hopeless is telling.
Anyway, it was a weird issue. Hopeless might be better to stick with the fighting and leave the characterization for later issues, once we've got the concept a little better defined.
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