Cyberforce & spinoffs

Nitcentral's Bulletin Brash Reflections: Comic books: Misc. Publishers: Image Comics (1992-present): Top Cow: Cyberforce & spinoffs
By Keith Alan Morgan (Kmorgan) on Friday, January 31, 2014 - 5:51 am:

Cyberforce were a group of cyberneticly enhanced mutants who fought against the evil corporation Cyberdata that gave them their enhancements.

General Nits.

The whole "prejudice against mutants" really was out of place. Had the comic been set in the 1950's or '60s, okay, maybe the '70s, but people acting like it was the 1950s in 1992 was just ridiculous. In this series and the larger Image universe mutants had been around for several generations, and while I can see people being uncomfortable around some of the more unusual looking mutants, society has accepted the idea that different doesn't mean "we can treat 'em like second-class citizens, woohoo!"
Then again the founders of Image were probably recycling their old Marvel comics ideas and just used the Marvel universe's default for mutant relations forgetting that Marvel, at least, has the idea grandfathered in since The X-Men have been "fighting for a world that hates & fears them" since the 1960s.

Cyberdata has a specialist group called the S.H.O.C. troops that they send out on certain missions. However the names of the members are... problematic: Ballistic; Buzzcut; Psychotron; Killjoy; Misery...
Not exactly names that would inspire confidence in the general public. Okay, maybe the connection of the S.H.O.C. troops to Cyberdata isn't publicly known (the issues I have are vague on that) so it might not be a problem, still I'd expect some public relations person in Cyberdata to try and give them more positive names.


The Tin Men Of War - Part 4 Cyber Force #4 (mini-series)

Last issue, Velocity & T.I.M.M.I.E. had escaped from their cell and were making a break for it. This issue they're prisoners again.
Okayyyyyyyy... I understand that setting up a series, and juggling a cast of thousands, all within a four-issue span can cause creators to forget what someone was doing when they last used them, but inserting a reference to an off-panel recapture is just lazy (not to mention making Velocity look completely useless as a potential heroine).

Okayyyy... at the end Mother May I is revealed to be Velocity & Ballistic's real mother.
Now given that Mother May I is such a powerful telepath, why couldn't she use her telepathy to keep her husband from beating Velocity as a child?


Royal Blood Act Three Cyber Force #34

Here Ballistic refers to herself as Cassie Lane, but the Cyber Force Universe Sourcebook lists her sister Velocity's real name as Carin Taylor.
Did a writer screw up the last name or is there a canon explanation for the two different last names?


By Keith Alan Morgan (Kmorgan) on Tuesday, February 25, 2014 - 4:35 am:

Ripclaw was Robert Bearclaw a member of Cyberforce.

Untitled Ripclaw #2 (miniseries)

Oehda, an Iroquois shaman, is sending a creature back to the shadowlands and he uses the phrase "from whence".
1. From whence is just plain bad English since whence means "from where".
2. Shouldn't he be speaking Iroquois, not English, to send a mystical creature back to a mystical place?

Cute in-joke. A guy is holding a bottle of "Top Cow Productions, Inc. Hooch "Make you go Ballistic"".
Top Cow & Ballistic Studios were responsible for this comic.


Untitled Ripclaw #2

Last page & panel. The villain says, "Doesn't he know what happened to all you other "assistants?""
Your, not "you".


By Keith Alan Morgan (Kmorgan) on Tuesday, February 25, 2014 - 4:36 am:

Untitled Cyberforce: Hunter Killer #1

Advertisement for an earpiece phone called the Jett, "The Jett draws its power from your own body heat, so it never runs out of juice..."
Never? Not even when the owner dies or is subjected to extreme cold? ;-)


By Keith Alan Morgan (Kmorgan) on Tuesday, February 25, 2014 - 4:38 am:

Cyber Force is a rebooting of the old series rather than a continuation. In this version most of the world is linked up thanks to evil corporation CDI (formerly Cyberdata), Carin Taylor (Velocity) is the daughter of the chairwoman of CDI and she's learned of a plan to destroy the world and she needs to find Morgan Stryker. A much grimmer version, no one wears a costume or acts very heroic and several new versions of old characters die. (Note: Thanks to a successful Kickstarter program the first five issues were free and if you can't find print copies you can find legal downloadable copies at places like Drive Thru Comics.)


Untitled Cyber Force #4 (Volume 4)

The simulation CDI runs keeps showing the Protocol as not working out like planned, which is hardly surprising given Dr. Murphey's ranting in a previous issue, and yet, CDI refuses to accept that maybe their protocol is flawed.
Then again, in real life people sometimes put their faith in flawed plans. A goal they find so attractive (usually with themselves in charge) that they work to make it come true even though it's as valid as 2 + 2 = 7, so it's hardly a nit when comic book characters have the same flaw as real people.

NANJAO. A guy is watching various programs at once and one of the soundbites is, "I'll take "Lame Superheroes" for one hundred, Alex..." and a later soundbite reads, "I'm sorry but that is incorrect, the answer we were looking for was "Aquaman"..."
Oooooooh... burn...


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