Back when I was a mild-mannered newspaperman, there was a reporter whose copy was so horribly written, it bordered on masochism. Every time a new story came in, there was a guilty pleasure in reading all the ham-fisted nuances, over-blown hyperbole and veiled innuendo.

I wish Cyborg were that entertaining.

As a whole, the title started out okay, but then it stumbled. Then it got better. Then it stumbled again. Then it got a little better, only to stumble yet again. And now it’s in free-fall.

It’s like watching the old Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles cartoon. Anomaly, Cyborg’s ongoing nemesis, has been creating one extraordinarily exaggerated creature after another. Mutations, cyborgs, giant robots – you know, nothing new.

The latest cast member to the title that has included Variant, Black Narcissus and H8-Bit, is Ratattack. Once the king of Detroit’s rat population, Rizzo Rattama has now been horribly mutated by Anomaly into a Saturday morning cartoon reject.

As our story begins, Cyborg is attempting to boom tube himself home, ending up six months later than he left. His techno-helper, Exxy, has parlayed his “partnership” with Cyborg into fame and fortune, and is now a rap star (because that’s what the kids listen to these days). For a person to turn their recent affiliation with a super-hero into a rap career is far-fetched in my opinion. It leads me to believe that Semper has a very narrow scope through which he is viewing the residents of Detroit.

But Anomaly is still around, waiting SIX FREAKIN’ MONTHS for Cyborg’s eventual return. And this leads to a showdown at Exxy’s latest concert. Of course, the audience believes it to just be part of the show, complicating Cyborg’s take down of Anomaly’s latest beasties.