Cyberforce Vol. 4 # 1
By Jake Estrada
The description of the book reads:
TOP COW’S TOP-SELLING SERIES RETURNS IN A GROUND-BREAKING WAY !
Top Cow celebrates its 20th anniversary with the return of
the series that started it all: CYBER FORCE! Top Cow founder MARC SILVESTRI
(THE DARKNESS, INCREDIBLE HULK) returns to his first Image series as co-writer,
art director and cover artist!
Co-writer MATT HAWKINS (THINK TANK, LADY PENDRAGON) and
artist KHOI PHAM (MIGHTY AVENGERS, DAREDEVIL) join SILVESTRI to bring you a
contemporary re-imagining rooted in cutting edge, real world technology.
Carin Taylor , codenamed
Velocity, has escaped from the CDI-controlled
Millennium City
and is desperately trying to find the one man she believes can help her prevent
the end of the world. When she runs a group of other CDI escapees, will they
help her… or turn their backs?
Not content in pushing the envelope just in terms of story
and art, Top Cow will be the first major US comic publisher to launch one of
their biggest properties with top tier creators concurrently for both the
traditional print market and exploding worldwide digital market for FREE.
That’s right: Thanks to the support of fans through Kickstarter and
participating comic shops, you can get the first FIVE issues of CYBER FORCE at
no
Cost.
I will be
rating the elements of the book on a scale of one through five.
One is poor,
two is mediocre, three is fair, four is good, and five is excellent.
My thoughts
The comic was free, I picked up three copies, give one to my
son and the other to my daughter. They both read the comic and they enjoyed it.
So I guess it worked in that level for a new reader that has never picked up a
copy to learn about this new Cyberforce.

The Art
The art was kind of weird; it had a very anime feel to a
realistic look. It had Khoi Pham on pencils and a longtime name I had not seen
in forever was Sal Regla on inks. I almost fell out when I saw Sal’s name.
Finally there were artistic finishes by Stjepan Sejlc providing Final Art
Polish. I don’t know what they meant about that but hey that was the team on
the art. Finally this was all under the direction of Marc Silvestri.

ART 3
The writing
The writing what can I say they recycled the original plot,
but of course they changed it up some but this was a more modern retelling of an
ancient IMAGE title.
So we have Velocity running around the city doing her thing,
she has her wolf dispatch of some of the Shoc Troops and she finally comes into
meeting the man with the claws that we all used to love but finally remembered
he was a Wolverine ripoff, Ripclaw. He leads Velocity to the others, and here
is where it gets funny. First most of the male characters have hoods and robes
on, but when they finally start to talk they remove their robes slowly as if
they are prepping to get down and frisky with the latest female in the room. In
fact this made me feel like I was watching a porno and I thought what the heck
was Matt Hawkins thinking when he wrote this story, along with Marc Silvestri.
I was totally taken back here for a second and laughing very hard.
Somewhere in the story we have Cyblade bust out in the story
telling Ripclaw that they needed Serum, and they could use Velocity as leverage
since they were rogue robots in heat. I was like Serum, so now they are drug
users as well. Damn I thought are these damn time has been bad on Cyberforce.

Damn Velocity, LOOK what you made Ripclaw do for your booty?
Marc, why did you do this?
I about lost it in the end if I had bought this book I don’t
know if I would ever pick up the second issue, but seeing as it is free I will
check out the second issue for sure.
WRITING 2
Originality

Originality 2
General overview
Cyberforce is back kiddies. These aren’t your quit clean cut
heroes of yesterday, now we got a new grunge group of dirty nomads ready to
fight against the evils of the world, but not before they get some hot tail. That
is why the Shoc troops were after Velocity, she had no chance until Ripclaw
found her and showed her off to his friends. Yet she was to busy screaming for
Morgan Stryker. Hell I guess a man with four arms is hot!!

I do hope we get more crazy hot moments with Velocity soon.
;)
Where to pick it up
You can pick up the comic at your local comic shop retail
shop, or you can hope over to Drivethru comics and get a copy as well, along
with other digital download places. This download also includes a copy of the
Darkness 101 so you get two issues for free, take advantage of it folks it is a
steal.
Enjoy!
Jake Estrada
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