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Review: Cyborg #3

By Philip Schweier
October 19, 2016 - 09:11

Once more, we explore where the man ends and the machine begins, but this time from a different angle. As the story opens, Cyborg is in battle with the JLA against Darkseid. But the fight doesn’t quite go as it once did, and it quickly becomes clear this is a dream. But when Cyborg’s lab-mate Sarah informs him they shut down his capability to dream, it presents a puzzle.

 

And that’s something that puzzles me: how does one shut the innate human ability to dream? It’s a question that comes up later, when Vic is presented with a dilemma from his pre-Cyborg past, and is told some of those memories were simply “turned off.” Such an idea implies that Vic truly is more mechanical than man.

 

I’d believed Cyborg’s encounter with Kilg%re last issue was simply the end of a two-part story, but clearly there is more at stake, more in play. Someone seems capable fo manipulating Cyborg’s perceptions. The question is who?

 

This is the kind of writing I appreciate – each chapter answers some questions, but then raises others. The art is perfect. Conrad does an exceptional job of rendering the human form, human or mechanical. But with all the intricate hardware involved with a character like Cyborg, he refuses to cheat his way out of rendering that as well. It can be a challenge, to which Conrad effectively rises.

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