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Cave Carson Has a Cybernetic Eye #1
Cave Carson Has a Cybernetic Eye, Vol. 1: Going Underground
Cave Carson has a cybernetic eye. But you knew that already. The question is, why was this spelunking adventurer fitted with a bionic implant and what do the visions it's giving him mean?
Before his cybernetic eye started showing Cave Carson a world outside his own, he had retired from his life of exploring the center of the Earth with his wife, Eileen, and they had settled into a comfortable, if not mundane, existence above the surface. That is, until Eileen got sick. Now, newly widowed, a knock on the door of Cave's underground lab has brought him back into the world he thought he left behind, beneath the surface of the Earth.
Co-written by Gerard Way (Doom Patrol) and Jon Rivera (Heartbreak), with stunning art by Michael Avon Oeming (Powers), this absurdist take on one of DC's more obscure spelunkers explores love and loss, and the line between reality and perception.
Collecting: Cave Carson Has a Cybernetic Eye 1-6
Before his cybernetic eye started showing Cave Carson a world outside his own, he had retired from his life of exploring the center of the Earth with his wife, Eileen, and they had settled into a comfortable, if not mundane, existence above the surface. That is, until Eileen got sick. Now, newly widowed, a knock on the door of Cave's underground lab has brought him back into the world he thought he left behind, beneath the surface of the Earth.
Co-written by Gerard Way (Doom Patrol) and Jon Rivera (Heartbreak), with stunning art by Michael Avon Oeming (Powers), this absurdist take on one of DC's more obscure spelunkers explores love and loss, and the line between reality and perception.
Collecting: Cave Carson Has a Cybernetic Eye 1-6
176 pages, Paperback
First published June 28, 2017
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Gerard Way
227 books4,529 followersGerard Arthur Way (born April 9, 1977) is an American singer, songwriter, musician, and comic book writer who served as frontman, lead vocalist, and co-founder of the band My Chemical Romance from the time of its formation in 2001 until its breakup in 2013. He is the author of the Eisner Award-winning comic book series The Umbrella Academy (now a Netflix original series) and The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys. In January 2014, he announced via Twitter that he and artist Gabriel Ba will begin work on Umbrella Academy Volumes 3 & 4 in late 2014/early 2015. His debut solo album Hesitant Alien was released on September 30, 2014. Way lives in Los Angeles, California, with his wife Lindsey (bassist of Mindless Self Indulgence) and their daughter, Bandit.
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July 4, 2017
Hey, did you know Cave Carson has a cybernetic eye? Who fucking cares?! Certainly not me after reading this shit!
If his abysmal Doom Patrol series didn’t underline it enough for me, Cave Carson has driven home the point that Gerard Way hasn’t the first clue how to write a decent comic. And let’s not forget his co-writer, Jon Rivera. Two Grant Morrison fanboys who desperately wish they were half as talented as him and demonstrably aren’t even close. I mean, this is straight up incompetent storytelling from first page to last.
The story as I can barely grasp it is: Cave Carson is some kind of scientist who right away has a cybernetic eye. Why did he get the eye? What is the eye and what does it do? Why is it so significant??? UP YOURS. We actually do see him getting the eye later on but it’s confusing because there’s no caption that says “The Past” or something to indicate that scene took place before the current story. Morons! Reading this comic, I felt like John Malkovich in Burn After Reading (what an appropriate title for this trash)!
Cave and his daughter are sorta famous or something and the company Cave works for wants to kill him or something because conspiracy of evil scientists for no reason. Which obviously means going to an underground kingdom full of Muldroogans (underground people? And don’t expect any explanations as to who they are either - nothing is explained here ever) and fighting monsters because…? Cave’s dead wife is also a ghost or hologram, his best mate is a lunatic in a hockey mask and everyone’s running around shooting lasers at each other. This is like Lost in Space written by idiots, for idiots.
It’s just so horrendously written. I had no idea what was happening nor what the point of anything was - but I knew I hated it. None of it makes sense and no attempt is made to make any sense. Zero skill or talent on display here but you can tell the creators are absolutely in love with themselves - oh, we’re such weird and whacky hipster artistes, so twee! Every single panel on every single page. Loathed the shit out of it.
Cave Carson Has a Cybernetic Eye is easily one of the worst comics of the year. A complete waste of time - don’t bother.
If his abysmal Doom Patrol series didn’t underline it enough for me, Cave Carson has driven home the point that Gerard Way hasn’t the first clue how to write a decent comic. And let’s not forget his co-writer, Jon Rivera. Two Grant Morrison fanboys who desperately wish they were half as talented as him and demonstrably aren’t even close. I mean, this is straight up incompetent storytelling from first page to last.
The story as I can barely grasp it is: Cave Carson is some kind of scientist who right away has a cybernetic eye. Why did he get the eye? What is the eye and what does it do? Why is it so significant??? UP YOURS. We actually do see him getting the eye later on but it’s confusing because there’s no caption that says “The Past” or something to indicate that scene took place before the current story. Morons! Reading this comic, I felt like John Malkovich in Burn After Reading (what an appropriate title for this trash)!
Cave and his daughter are sorta famous or something and the company Cave works for wants to kill him or something because conspiracy of evil scientists for no reason. Which obviously means going to an underground kingdom full of Muldroogans (underground people? And don’t expect any explanations as to who they are either - nothing is explained here ever) and fighting monsters because…? Cave’s dead wife is also a ghost or hologram, his best mate is a lunatic in a hockey mask and everyone’s running around shooting lasers at each other. This is like Lost in Space written by idiots, for idiots.
It’s just so horrendously written. I had no idea what was happening nor what the point of anything was - but I knew I hated it. None of it makes sense and no attempt is made to make any sense. Zero skill or talent on display here but you can tell the creators are absolutely in love with themselves - oh, we’re such weird and whacky hipster artistes, so twee! Every single panel on every single page. Loathed the shit out of it.
Cave Carson Has a Cybernetic Eye is easily one of the worst comics of the year. A complete waste of time - don’t bother.
November 9, 2020
Gerard Way takes Cave Carson off the DC trash heap of forgotten characters and gives him new life. Cave's wife has just passed and now he and his college age daughter have to deal with it. Cave has went back to work designing a new mole machine for EMX. Cave, his daughter, and Wilddog get involved with an underground cult (pun intended) and headunderground to help protect the Muldroogans from them. Lots of highly stylized, psychedelic art from Michael Avon Oeming.
The Good: This is the only Young Animal book that I've enjoyed. The rest are crap. I like the idea of the weird cult that's chasing them around. Plus the return of Wilddog, a ridiculous hero from the 80's.
The Bad: Like the other Young Animal books, the story was hard to follow in places and a lot of things were unexplained.
The Ugly: Some of the psychedelic art was extremely hard to follow.
The Good: This is the only Young Animal book that I've enjoyed. The rest are crap. I like the idea of the weird cult that's chasing them around. Plus the return of Wilddog, a ridiculous hero from the 80's.
The Bad: Like the other Young Animal books, the story was hard to follow in places and a lot of things were unexplained.
The Ugly: Some of the psychedelic art was extremely hard to follow.
January 27, 2022
Cave Carson is wacky as balls, guilty pleasure, sci-fi camp.
First thing you should know is that Cave Carson was a totally obscure DCU character about whom little was known, other than him being a spelunker with a cybernetic eye. Gerard Way chose him for his name alone. And Way is slowly developing him upon the backdrop of family drama, conspiracy, and action.
What we do know: Cave is seeing things and he can’t decide if his cybernetic eye is on the fritz or if he’s losing his mind with grief. His wife is dead. His relationship with his daughter Chloe is strained. He got his cybernetic eye very unusually (as one does). He met Superman once. And that’s it so far.
Chloe is cynical yet free-spirited. Wild Dog is silly and trigger happy. There’s a demon worshipping cult who simply want to “free the beast.” And then there’s a demon, fungus monsters, and radioactive worms who serve as bloody, gun-target eye candy in a story of nonstop action and intrigue.
What Cave Carson does well is sci-fi camp, like Evil Dead meets Journey to the Center of the Earth. It’s an unsophisticated, guilty pleasure romp. And the artwork is Cartoon Network circa 2000, hyperbolic and stylistic, fat lines and bright colors. It’s fun and otherworldly, just like Cave himself.
First thing you should know is that Cave Carson was a totally obscure DCU character about whom little was known, other than him being a spelunker with a cybernetic eye. Gerard Way chose him for his name alone. And Way is slowly developing him upon the backdrop of family drama, conspiracy, and action.
What we do know: Cave is seeing things and he can’t decide if his cybernetic eye is on the fritz or if he’s losing his mind with grief. His wife is dead. His relationship with his daughter Chloe is strained. He got his cybernetic eye very unusually (as one does). He met Superman once. And that’s it so far.
Chloe is cynical yet free-spirited. Wild Dog is silly and trigger happy. There’s a demon worshipping cult who simply want to “free the beast.” And then there’s a demon, fungus monsters, and radioactive worms who serve as bloody, gun-target eye candy in a story of nonstop action and intrigue.
What Cave Carson does well is sci-fi camp, like Evil Dead meets Journey to the Center of the Earth. It’s an unsophisticated, guilty pleasure romp. And the artwork is Cartoon Network circa 2000, hyperbolic and stylistic, fat lines and bright colors. It’s fun and otherworldly, just like Cave himself.
November 2, 2017
Let's be real. Nobody knows or cares about Cave Carson. Funny enough, he's actually pretty cool dude.
So this is another one of Young Animal line books and so far they've been crazy weird, but enjoyable read. Cave Carson fits right into that. We have a man, Carson, who has a Cybernetic Eye. With that eye shit gets pretty freaking weird once we get deeper into the series. However, the focus of the series is really about family and legacy. About your past, and what it makes you today. It's about also shooting a bunch of mofos because Wild dog is in this bitch and he ain't playing.
Good: Really fun side characters. I love Wild dog in here because he's freaking nuts. Also his one liners are great. Even better his Cave's daughter, Thula, who is so freaking hot yet badass. Her banter with not only her father but Wild Dog is wonderful. The colorful world is also a lot of fun to get sucked into and view.
Bad: It's a bit jarring at first the way the series throws you into the mix. None of these characters are from other series you might know. Their stories are weird as shit, and honestly, it gets weirder as it goes. By the end I loved the characters but the story was kind of a mix bag for me.
Overall it's wacky, makes no sense sometimes, but it's colorful, fun, and nuts. I really enjoyed the trio here as they all played off each other well. Also more naked Thula please. Yes I am perverted. Also Wild Dog. More of him. In everything. A 3.5 out of 5.
So this is another one of Young Animal line books and so far they've been crazy weird, but enjoyable read. Cave Carson fits right into that. We have a man, Carson, who has a Cybernetic Eye. With that eye shit gets pretty freaking weird once we get deeper into the series. However, the focus of the series is really about family and legacy. About your past, and what it makes you today. It's about also shooting a bunch of mofos because Wild dog is in this bitch and he ain't playing.
Good: Really fun side characters. I love Wild dog in here because he's freaking nuts. Also his one liners are great. Even better his Cave's daughter, Thula, who is so freaking hot yet badass. Her banter with not only her father but Wild Dog is wonderful. The colorful world is also a lot of fun to get sucked into and view.
Bad: It's a bit jarring at first the way the series throws you into the mix. None of these characters are from other series you might know. Their stories are weird as shit, and honestly, it gets weirder as it goes. By the end I loved the characters but the story was kind of a mix bag for me.
Overall it's wacky, makes no sense sometimes, but it's colorful, fun, and nuts. I really enjoyed the trio here as they all played off each other well. Also more naked Thula please. Yes I am perverted. Also Wild Dog. More of him. In everything. A 3.5 out of 5.
July 2, 2017
yet more excellent content from the Young Animal team!!
ok so this comic is kinda like.... uh.... superhero meets h.p lovecraft meets...... well, gerard way. if you're acquainted with literally any of gerard way's work at all, you know what i mean.
that's literally the best description i can make, really.
i don't actually think i can criticise any aspects of this comic at all. the art was really good (especially the colouring, which was truly excellent), the storyline was cohesive and complex, and the characters were also really interesting, which i was really pleased to see because sometimes characterisation is not so good in comics. but not this one!
i think i enjoyed it even more than Doom Patrol!
actually i could criticise the fungus monsters because i have a huge phobia of fungi and it made me go HAUIAHFNAFYAFHAUGHGUH but i guess that added to the overall atmosphere
ok so this comic is kinda like.... uh.... superhero meets h.p lovecraft meets...... well, gerard way. if you're acquainted with literally any of gerard way's work at all, you know what i mean.
that's literally the best description i can make, really.
i don't actually think i can criticise any aspects of this comic at all. the art was really good (especially the colouring, which was truly excellent), the storyline was cohesive and complex, and the characters were also really interesting, which i was really pleased to see because sometimes characterisation is not so good in comics. but not this one!
i think i enjoyed it even more than Doom Patrol!
December 4, 2017
Way and Rivera have fun with their underground pulp fiction, reflecting a whole subgenre of subterranean fiction that's largely gone now. They do a good job of creating underground mysteries, and also do a good job of characterizing Carson and his daughter. The additional inclusion of Wild Dog is terrific.
That's backed up by wonderful, often psychedelic art by Michael Avon Oeming.
On the downside, the story never quite feels approachable. I don't know if it's that I don't care about the characters or that I don't feel any tension. But, the first thing that really made me want to read more was the annoying cliffhanger that ends the volume. (So, yeah, not a complete story either.)
That's backed up by wonderful, often psychedelic art by Michael Avon Oeming.
On the downside, the story never quite feels approachable. I don't know if it's that I don't care about the characters or that I don't feel any tension. But, the first thing that really made me want to read more was the annoying cliffhanger that ends the volume. (So, yeah, not a complete story either.)
February 1, 2018
Pulpy fun.
World: The art is amazing, I've loved Oeming art since Powers and it's great. Its his colors and framing and weirdly cartoon but emotive characters. The world building is also fantastic, I've not read any Cave Carson and much like my knowledge of characters like Adam Strange I know him from cameos, mini series and others but this is a wonderful roaring back for a very old school pseudoscience romp thst reminds you of the best parts of Jules Verne. The world is cool, the call backs to DC fun, yeah I like this world.
Story: Framed very well and paced also. The book is written to feel like a turn of the century adventure pulp serial and it feels like it. It's fast moving, basic in premise and motivation and just rip roaring fun. We don't need to think too deeply of hollow earth and all the science but just like the best of John Carter or Journey to the Center of the Earth this is just an adventure. It's fun.
Characters: Cave is fun, he's basic and enigmatic and cool the way old time heroes are, they just know everything and get shit done. Wild Dog was an interesting choice and he feels very kitschy, over the top and fun, he's the muscle in those classic adventure tales. Then there the daughter the little bit of arc for the more intimate quiet moments of the book. Fun basic archetypal characters.
Rip roaring adventure fun.
Onward to the next book!
*read individual issues*
World: The art is amazing, I've loved Oeming art since Powers and it's great. Its his colors and framing and weirdly cartoon but emotive characters. The world building is also fantastic, I've not read any Cave Carson and much like my knowledge of characters like Adam Strange I know him from cameos, mini series and others but this is a wonderful roaring back for a very old school pseudoscience romp thst reminds you of the best parts of Jules Verne. The world is cool, the call backs to DC fun, yeah I like this world.
Story: Framed very well and paced also. The book is written to feel like a turn of the century adventure pulp serial and it feels like it. It's fast moving, basic in premise and motivation and just rip roaring fun. We don't need to think too deeply of hollow earth and all the science but just like the best of John Carter or Journey to the Center of the Earth this is just an adventure. It's fun.
Characters: Cave is fun, he's basic and enigmatic and cool the way old time heroes are, they just know everything and get shit done. Wild Dog was an interesting choice and he feels very kitschy, over the top and fun, he's the muscle in those classic adventure tales. Then there the daughter the little bit of arc for the more intimate quiet moments of the book. Fun basic archetypal characters.
Rip roaring adventure fun.
Onward to the next book!
*read individual issues*
September 7, 2017
What.a.waste...
Just 1 tip: skip this..
After the other issues i couldn't finish, this was almost on the list too, but I wanted to give it a chance...
Don't know why I did that..
There was no story, lousy.. soooo much left unexplained.. What the hell were the writers thinking??
Don't want to waste any more typing, said too much already... I'm just so pissed with all the :(
Just 1 tip: skip this..
After the other issues i couldn't finish, this was almost on the list too, but I wanted to give it a chance...
Don't know why I did that..
There was no story, lousy.. soooo much left unexplained.. What the hell were the writers thinking??
Don't want to waste any more typing, said too much already... I'm just so pissed with all the :(
January 17, 2021
Súhrnná recenzia na prvý aj druhý book: Očakávala som, že ked v tom má prsty Way, že to miestami nebude dávať hlavu-pätu, ale kupodivu to celkom všetko vysvetlilo, dej sa posúval ako mal, s občasnými flashbackami a naozaj ma to bavilo. Žiadnych milión nápadov napchatých do jedného booku, má to jasný začiatok aj cieľ. Tá kresba je strašne super, nemôžem si pomôcť, tie preplácané stránky sa mi páčili výnimočne viac ako tie menej preplácané, kolorované to bolo tiež strašne pekne, milujem keď sú stránky ako celok viacmenej monochromatické s obmenami jasu/kontrastu. Za mňa jednoznačne unikátne sci-fi, ktoré by mohlo nejednému človeku opraviť chuť po Wayovej Umbrella Academy. 4,5/5
August 5, 2019
Unknown lousy characters I don't give 2 fucks about, weird for weird's sake (read "total bullshit"), illegible storytelling, ugly garish coloring... Enough is enough.
I don't even know why this dumbass Carson- with about as much personalty as an oyster btw- has a cybernetic eye, I quit before it's explained (if it is)
Lucky me, I don't fucking care.
I don't even know why this dumbass Carson- with about as much personalty as an oyster btw- has a cybernetic eye, I quit before it's explained (if it is)
Lucky me, I don't fucking care.
May 15, 2019
The art was pretty cool but the book was pretty silly.
June 27, 2017
Talk about a madcap, crazy-ass romp through a retro chic world!
That, was a lot of fun and full of WTF moments.
I’m really enjoying some of the titles under the Young Animal imprint as they’re really offering some amazing forms of escapism. To me, this title had it all from a crazy story, with even crazier art. I can of course (my like the current Doom Patrol) see that this might not be for all, but I had a helluva fun time reading it.
Also really enjoyed the slight nods to some older and lesser known DC characters. Nice to briefly see Dr. Magnus and the Metal Men. I can assure you that I certainly missed other references, but for the uninitiated, let me tell you now…you’ll be ok! The story is so kooky that you won’t really feel like you’re missing out on anything. Just enjoy the ride while it lasts.
It’s got some moments of levity as well, with silly jokes and light touches. I was totally sucked into the moment when they were calling for some major backup, to de delightfully surprised by an all too silly situation.
The story does become more and more insane as it goes on, from a retro style suspense story with a hint of James Bond to a psychedelic mess of Eldritch horror!
Ends on a cliff hanger, and I have to say that in this instance, I’m really eager to see what happens next!
Although many of the Rebirth titles have been more miss than hit for me, Young Animal is offering up some interesting, and wildly different takes on less-than ordinary characters. I’d recommend this to anyone with a sense of adventure, humour, and a touch of madness!
That, was a lot of fun and full of WTF moments.
I’m really enjoying some of the titles under the Young Animal imprint as they’re really offering some amazing forms of escapism. To me, this title had it all from a crazy story, with even crazier art. I can of course (my like the current Doom Patrol) see that this might not be for all, but I had a helluva fun time reading it.
Also really enjoyed the slight nods to some older and lesser known DC characters. Nice to briefly see Dr. Magnus and the Metal Men. I can assure you that I certainly missed other references, but for the uninitiated, let me tell you now…you’ll be ok! The story is so kooky that you won’t really feel like you’re missing out on anything. Just enjoy the ride while it lasts.
It’s got some moments of levity as well, with silly jokes and light touches. I was totally sucked into the moment when they were calling for some major backup, to de delightfully surprised by an all too silly situation.
The story does become more and more insane as it goes on, from a retro style suspense story with a hint of James Bond to a psychedelic mess of Eldritch horror!
Ends on a cliff hanger, and I have to say that in this instance, I’m really eager to see what happens next!
Although many of the Rebirth titles have been more miss than hit for me, Young Animal is offering up some interesting, and wildly different takes on less-than ordinary characters. I’d recommend this to anyone with a sense of adventure, humour, and a touch of madness!
September 4, 2017
Weird for the sake of weird can be okay, but it's never really going to satisfy me, especially if the weirdness is just used to mask sloppy or stupid storytelling as it is here.
For me the key question asked in the whole book is, "Wild Dog, what the hell are you doing back there?" Seriously, why is Wild Dog in the book? Because he lives in the Midwest like Cave Carson? Lame. The rest of the book seems slapped together with the same sort of loose (or lack of) logic.
I disliked the out-of-place violence, drug use, and a cliffhanger ending that left me thinking I'll just assume the worst and pretend there will never be a second volume.
And don't get me started on the gobbledygook which is the Super Powers back-up story. Murky art and lettering do little to help this superhero free-association nostalgic muddle.
All that said, I do appreciate the attempt to recreate the tone of Grant Morrison's Doom Patrol run and the enthusiasm displayed in trying to do something with one of DC's third- or fourth-tier characters. (I'm a giant DC fanboy and actually read several Cave Carson stories in comic book form back in the 70s and 80s.) Despite the missteps in this book, I'm still curious to try one or two of the other titles under the Young Animal imprint.
For me the key question asked in the whole book is, "Wild Dog, what the hell are you doing back there?" Seriously, why is Wild Dog in the book? Because he lives in the Midwest like Cave Carson? Lame. The rest of the book seems slapped together with the same sort of loose (or lack of) logic.
I disliked the out-of-place violence, drug use, and a cliffhanger ending that left me thinking I'll just assume the worst and pretend there will never be a second volume.
And don't get me started on the gobbledygook which is the Super Powers back-up story. Murky art and lettering do little to help this superhero free-association nostalgic muddle.
All that said, I do appreciate the attempt to recreate the tone of Grant Morrison's Doom Patrol run and the enthusiasm displayed in trying to do something with one of DC's third- or fourth-tier characters. (I'm a giant DC fanboy and actually read several Cave Carson stories in comic book form back in the 70s and 80s.) Despite the missteps in this book, I'm still curious to try one or two of the other titles under the Young Animal imprint.
July 1, 2017
Who is Cave Carson? And why does he have a cybernetic eye?
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March 27, 2020
5
Loved this from the opening 2 issues. It has that old pulpy style, but with a modern spin. It's great to have a label like Young Animal, that can resurrect some of these great obscure characters. Hopefully Challengers Of The Unknown is on their list too. Cave Carson is a solid first volume and established the world straight away. Pulpy artwork and a background story with room to grow.
Why the 5?
Cave Carson is just another tick with my binging of Young Animal. I'm not giving these 5 for the status of high end quality, there's better comics, just check out the Black Label at DC. These are just wild adventure, and a lot of fun. I only wish DC and WB would introduce more mid range budgets to characters like this. This was a riot of artwork and crazy world building. This ended quickly, so I assume the next volume picks up straight away. Solid first volume for the character.
Loved this from the opening 2 issues. It has that old pulpy style, but with a modern spin. It's great to have a label like Young Animal, that can resurrect some of these great obscure characters. Hopefully Challengers Of The Unknown is on their list too. Cave Carson is a solid first volume and established the world straight away. Pulpy artwork and a background story with room to grow.
Why the 5?
Cave Carson is just another tick with my binging of Young Animal. I'm not giving these 5 for the status of high end quality, there's better comics, just check out the Black Label at DC. These are just wild adventure, and a lot of fun. I only wish DC and WB would introduce more mid range budgets to characters like this. This was a riot of artwork and crazy world building. This ended quickly, so I assume the next volume picks up straight away. Solid first volume for the character.
August 13, 2017
Do you know Cave Carson? Don't worry, I didn't either. He's an obscure character from the Silver Age, friends with Superman and, in case the title hasn't given it away, he has a cybernetic eye. This is all you need to know to have a blast with this comic.
Cave Carson Has a Cybernetic Eye is one of the most bonkers comic books you'll find out there. This is, of course, not news if you've been reading Gerard Way's Young Animal imprint. It's a mad adventure with an even madder scenography and a must read for anyone looking for something refreshing. It has the aesthetics of a pulp sci-fi, mixed with some 60’s and 70’s psychedelia and some good-old journey to the center of the earth plot points.
Cave starts of retired, almost as if you've left off at his last silver age adventure (which, again, you probably haven't read). He was the former head of an excavation and adventure enterprise and still has a say on the goings on of the resulting company, but for the most part just wants to mourn his newly departed wife and figure out why the hell his cybernetic eye won’t stop giving him visions. The plot then spirals into unknown depths (literally). There is some clever mastery in making you think this can all be explained if you read his backstory (it can’t) and making you feel like you really know this guy’s place in comics (again, I at least didn’t). There is also some clever plot construction to introduce Wild Dog into this comic, and for that I’m forever grateful. The plot itself is fun, exhilarating and dizzyingly (almost too much) fast. The book feels like it’s rushing through a plot just to get to the most exciting part, and that the only nit-pick I have towards not making this a 5-star rating. I thoroughly enjoyed this and I think it’s smart storytelling. This is shaping up to be the most fun and action-packed comic in Young Animal.
In the age where Vertigo is a great memory but not the freshest take on comics, Gerard Way has come with an amazing team of artists to revitalize DC Comics. To me Young Animal has been a massive hit, reminiscing of what Vertigo used to be but revitalized for the 21st century. (Please don’t jump on me, bear in mind that 3 of my top 5 favorite comics of all time are imprinted by Vertigo).
¿Conoces a Cave Carson? No te preocupes, yo tampoco lo conocía. Es un personaje poco conocido de la edad plateada, es amigo de Superman y, por si el título no te lo arruinó, tiene un ojo cibernético. Eso es todo lo que necesitas saber para divertirte a lo grande con este cómic.
“Cave Carson tiene un ojo cibernético (Cave Carson has a Cybernetic Eye)” es uno de los cómics más locos que van a encontrar hoy en día. Claro que esto no son noticias si han estado leyendo Young Animal, la imprenta de Gerard Way. Es una aventura demente con una escenografía todavía más demente y un obligado para quien quiera leer algo diferente. Tiene la estética de un pulp de ciencia ficción, mezclado con psicodelia de los 60 y 70 y las ideas de trama de una historia de viaje al centro de la tierra.
Cave comienza casi retirado, como si comenzara el comic después del final de sus aventuras de la edad plateada (que, de nuevo, seguramente no has leído). Él solía ser el líder de una expedición de aventura y todavía tiene un decir en la compañía resultante, pero en la actualidad sólo está en el duelo de su esposa recién fallecida y tratando de descubrir por qué diablos su ojo cibernético no deja de causarle visiones. La historia, entonces, toma un giro hacia profundidades desconocidas (literalmente). La historia exhibe inteligencia en hacerte sentir como si todo esto se pudiera explicar más a detalle si leyeras sus aventuras previas (no es así) y hacerte sentir como si verdaderamente conocieras el lugar de este hombre en la historia de los cómics (de nuevo, por lo menos yo no la conocía). También exhibe una construcción inteligente de la trama para introducir a Wild Dog a esta historia, y estaré siempre agradecido de ello. La historia en sí es divertida, emocionante y vertiginosa, casi en demasía. El libro se siente como si estuviera apurándose sólo para llegar a la parte emocionante y ese es el único negrito en el arroz que hizo que no le diera una calificación de 5 estrellas. Lo disfrute mucho y creo que es una manera inteligente de contar historias. Parece que éste será el cómic más divertido y lleno de acción de Young Animal.
En la era en la que Vértigo es una gran memoria, pero no el acercamiento más fresco a los cómics, Gerard Way llegó con un increíble equipo de artistas a revitalizar DC Comics. Para mí, Young Animal ha sido un increíble éxito, que justamente recuerda a lo que Vértigo solía ser, pero revitalizado al siglo 21 (no me maten, tengan en cuenta que 3 de mis 5 cómics favoritos de todos los tiempos son de sello Vértigo.
Cave Carson Has a Cybernetic Eye is one of the most bonkers comic books you'll find out there. This is, of course, not news if you've been reading Gerard Way's Young Animal imprint. It's a mad adventure with an even madder scenography and a must read for anyone looking for something refreshing. It has the aesthetics of a pulp sci-fi, mixed with some 60’s and 70’s psychedelia and some good-old journey to the center of the earth plot points.
Cave starts of retired, almost as if you've left off at his last silver age adventure (which, again, you probably haven't read). He was the former head of an excavation and adventure enterprise and still has a say on the goings on of the resulting company, but for the most part just wants to mourn his newly departed wife and figure out why the hell his cybernetic eye won’t stop giving him visions. The plot then spirals into unknown depths (literally). There is some clever mastery in making you think this can all be explained if you read his backstory (it can’t) and making you feel like you really know this guy’s place in comics (again, I at least didn’t). There is also some clever plot construction to introduce Wild Dog into this comic, and for that I’m forever grateful. The plot itself is fun, exhilarating and dizzyingly (almost too much) fast. The book feels like it’s rushing through a plot just to get to the most exciting part, and that the only nit-pick I have towards not making this a 5-star rating. I thoroughly enjoyed this and I think it’s smart storytelling. This is shaping up to be the most fun and action-packed comic in Young Animal.
In the age where Vertigo is a great memory but not the freshest take on comics, Gerard Way has come with an amazing team of artists to revitalize DC Comics. To me Young Animal has been a massive hit, reminiscing of what Vertigo used to be but revitalized for the 21st century. (Please don’t jump on me, bear in mind that 3 of my top 5 favorite comics of all time are imprinted by Vertigo).
¿Conoces a Cave Carson? No te preocupes, yo tampoco lo conocía. Es un personaje poco conocido de la edad plateada, es amigo de Superman y, por si el título no te lo arruinó, tiene un ojo cibernético. Eso es todo lo que necesitas saber para divertirte a lo grande con este cómic.
“Cave Carson tiene un ojo cibernético (Cave Carson has a Cybernetic Eye)” es uno de los cómics más locos que van a encontrar hoy en día. Claro que esto no son noticias si han estado leyendo Young Animal, la imprenta de Gerard Way. Es una aventura demente con una escenografía todavía más demente y un obligado para quien quiera leer algo diferente. Tiene la estética de un pulp de ciencia ficción, mezclado con psicodelia de los 60 y 70 y las ideas de trama de una historia de viaje al centro de la tierra.
Cave comienza casi retirado, como si comenzara el comic después del final de sus aventuras de la edad plateada (que, de nuevo, seguramente no has leído). Él solía ser el líder de una expedición de aventura y todavía tiene un decir en la compañía resultante, pero en la actualidad sólo está en el duelo de su esposa recién fallecida y tratando de descubrir por qué diablos su ojo cibernético no deja de causarle visiones. La historia, entonces, toma un giro hacia profundidades desconocidas (literalmente). La historia exhibe inteligencia en hacerte sentir como si todo esto se pudiera explicar más a detalle si leyeras sus aventuras previas (no es así) y hacerte sentir como si verdaderamente conocieras el lugar de este hombre en la historia de los cómics (de nuevo, por lo menos yo no la conocía). También exhibe una construcción inteligente de la trama para introducir a Wild Dog a esta historia, y estaré siempre agradecido de ello. La historia en sí es divertida, emocionante y vertiginosa, casi en demasía. El libro se siente como si estuviera apurándose sólo para llegar a la parte emocionante y ese es el único negrito en el arroz que hizo que no le diera una calificación de 5 estrellas. Lo disfrute mucho y creo que es una manera inteligente de contar historias. Parece que éste será el cómic más divertido y lleno de acción de Young Animal.
En la era en la que Vértigo es una gran memoria, pero no el acercamiento más fresco a los cómics, Gerard Way llegó con un increíble equipo de artistas a revitalizar DC Comics. Para mí, Young Animal ha sido un increíble éxito, que justamente recuerda a lo que Vértigo solía ser, pero revitalizado al siglo 21 (no me maten, tengan en cuenta que 3 de mis 5 cómics favoritos de todos los tiempos son de sello Vértigo.
June 2, 2023
It’s just no good, man. I don’t like anything about Cave Carson or his titular cybernetic eye.
Tom Scioli’s “Wonder Twins: Super Powers” short at the end is actually pretty cool, though. Give me some more of that, please and thank you.
Tom Scioli’s “Wonder Twins: Super Powers” short at the end is actually pretty cool, though. Give me some more of that, please and thank you.
November 5, 2017
There is something almost intentionally lame about the hero, and I love that!
What is NOT intentionally lame is the art. Which is to say that the ArtWork is Brilliant,
both Oeming and also this amazing colorist Filardi
made this a nice mild psychedelic experience, lol!
Fun story and just GORGEOUS art.
What is NOT intentionally lame is the art. Which is to say that the ArtWork is Brilliant,
both Oeming and also this amazing colorist Filardi
made this a nice mild psychedelic experience, lol!
Fun story and just GORGEOUS art.
May 14, 2017
Probably my favorite from the new DC Young Animal imprint. Cave Carson has that great indy storytelling appeal with throwback styled sci-fi! I'm just loving it!!
March 16, 2018
Cave Carson. What a disappointment.
One whole star just for the twenty odd pages of Tom Scioli's Super Powers back up feature. That's the only reason to read this book.
One whole star just for the twenty odd pages of Tom Scioli's Super Powers back up feature. That's the only reason to read this book.
August 15, 2017
****** I got a digital copy of this from Netgalley.
I downloaded this from Netgalley back at the end of June and started reading it. This was around the time I started a new job working outdoors doing landscaping. My first day on the job I thought I was having a heat stroke. I nearly blacked out in the yard we were working on. I went home and slept for 19 hrs. For nearly a week I was almost bedridden. I didn't feel like myself at all. it was during this time that I started reading this book. I couldn't get into it. I thought maybe it had something to do with me not fully functioning on a mental level. So, I stopped reading and decided I would pick it back later. Over a month went by before I picked anything up to read again.
Upon trying to read this for a second time, I realized that the book just starts off extremely slow. I didn't know anything about Cave Carson before picking this book up. Hell, I'd never even heard of the character before. (After reading what Gerard Way had to say at the end of the book, he'd never heard of the character before either.) The beginning introduces us to the major players and starts filling us in on some things from the past. After the 2nd issue, the story starts moving at a better pace and gets much more interesting. Gerard Way and Jon Rivera start the book together as the writing team before Way turns full control over to Rivera. While the story does get better, this is my least favorite of the 3 Young Animal titles I've read so far. (The other 2 are Doom Patrol & Mother Panic.) The writing may not have been the best in the world, but it made me interested enough to want to come back for volume 2. Writing gets 3 stars.
Michael Avon Oeming is the artist for the book. His characters look pretty good, but still cartoonish , in a weird, Adult Swim kind of way. As weird as the art looks by itself, it is doubly so after being colored by Nick Filardi. The whole book looks like some weird acid trip. At one the characters actually are hallucinating, so the art felt at home during that sequence, yet bizarrely out place in the rest of the book. Many of the pages have these little dots all throughout the panels. It makes the pictures looks like they were taken out of an old newspaper with how pixelated it is. All those dots combined with the garish coloring make some pages hard to look at. The dots make it hard to focus your attention on any one aspect within the panels. They great detract from the appearance of the book. They also gave me a headache. The art gets 2 stars.
If you are one of the iota of people that actually know who Cave Carson is, you will probably want to check this out. The only other people I can recommend this too are ones that like weird, psychedelic art and ones that think Grant Morrison's writing isn't weird enough. If you don't fall into one of those groups, you're probably not going to love this. Overall rating is 2.5 stars.
I downloaded this from Netgalley back at the end of June and started reading it. This was around the time I started a new job working outdoors doing landscaping. My first day on the job I thought I was having a heat stroke. I nearly blacked out in the yard we were working on. I went home and slept for 19 hrs. For nearly a week I was almost bedridden. I didn't feel like myself at all. it was during this time that I started reading this book. I couldn't get into it. I thought maybe it had something to do with me not fully functioning on a mental level. So, I stopped reading and decided I would pick it back later. Over a month went by before I picked anything up to read again.
Upon trying to read this for a second time, I realized that the book just starts off extremely slow. I didn't know anything about Cave Carson before picking this book up. Hell, I'd never even heard of the character before. (After reading what Gerard Way had to say at the end of the book, he'd never heard of the character before either.) The beginning introduces us to the major players and starts filling us in on some things from the past. After the 2nd issue, the story starts moving at a better pace and gets much more interesting. Gerard Way and Jon Rivera start the book together as the writing team before Way turns full control over to Rivera. While the story does get better, this is my least favorite of the 3 Young Animal titles I've read so far. (The other 2 are Doom Patrol & Mother Panic.) The writing may not have been the best in the world, but it made me interested enough to want to come back for volume 2. Writing gets 3 stars.
Michael Avon Oeming is the artist for the book. His characters look pretty good, but still cartoonish , in a weird, Adult Swim kind of way. As weird as the art looks by itself, it is doubly so after being colored by Nick Filardi. The whole book looks like some weird acid trip. At one the characters actually are hallucinating, so the art felt at home during that sequence, yet bizarrely out place in the rest of the book. Many of the pages have these little dots all throughout the panels. It makes the pictures looks like they were taken out of an old newspaper with how pixelated it is. All those dots combined with the garish coloring make some pages hard to look at. The dots make it hard to focus your attention on any one aspect within the panels. They great detract from the appearance of the book. They also gave me a headache. The art gets 2 stars.
If you are one of the iota of people that actually know who Cave Carson is, you will probably want to check this out. The only other people I can recommend this too are ones that like weird, psychedelic art and ones that think Grant Morrison's writing isn't weird enough. If you don't fall into one of those groups, you're probably not going to love this. Overall rating is 2.5 stars.
May 2, 2021
Thus far, I have reviewed every single DC Young Animal volume one I have read (alebit I am reading them four years later than everyone else). Here, however, with Cave Carson Has a [wonderfully unexplained] Cybernetic Eye, I have found it tough to put a review together. It really does not have the wackiness in either story or art that the other Young Animal runs have had, and it fails to make up for that insufficiency in any of the book’s other aspects. It’s just kind of “there” for me. Nevertheless, I can still highlight some specific thing I loved and some things I…loved less.
Things I Loved:
- I love picking up a character off the forgotten list of DC Comics and treating him with the dignity and respect he deserves. I call that the Gerard Way way (haha get it?) Cave Carson, the Challengers of the Unknown, etc... have always been underused in my opinion. Let’s be honest: The reason we don’t know what the cybernetic eye does is that no one’s ever bothered to flesh it out.
- Wild Dog is the BEST thing about this series so far. He’s everything you could want from a bombastic, gun-toting, All-American sidekick for Cave, and honestly, without him, I probably would’ve given up on the story.
Things I Loved Less:
- *sigh* Here we go. I guess it must be said: Oeming’s artwork misses the mark. I cannot tell the minor characters apart because sometimes their features just aren’t stylized at all, and his attempts at depicting Carson’s psychedelic breakdowns (due to his malfunctioning eye) were just too confusing for me to wade through visually.
- For something that is advertised as a retired spelunker forced back into the underworld amidst his own personal demons, the latter half of that is barely touched upon in the story. A week after reading, I genuinely remember very little of Carson’s motivations for doing what he does. You could chalk that up to having two different writers on this one very simple, Sci-Fi-Camp story, or chalk that p to my bad memory. All I know is that it ends on a cliffhanger (uggghhh) and now my stubborn self will HAVE to read volume two.
TL:DR Overall, I give it a 3/5 stars. A largely forgettable plot with artwork ranging from joyfully wacky to incomprehensible is carried forward on the backs of a reinvented Cave Carson and Wild Dog. Tune in if you love modern takes on forgotten characters of yesteryear.
September 15, 2019
La premisa de Cave Carson has a Cybernetic Eye, no es precisamente la más original. Podemos decir que se parece mucho a otras historias de civilizaciones secretas y minerales raros: como Pocahontas, Avatar, etc. Cave pierde a su esposa y mientras su hija y él tratan de seguir adelante; su antiguo empleador está orquestando un plan para drenar los recursos de la civilización antigua a la cuál su mujer pertenecía.
Esta historia, a pesar de la falta de originalidad, pudo ser impresionante. Por un lado parece que Cave está perdiendo la cordura porque su ojo cibernético lo está haciendo alucinar. Por otro lado los conflictos con su hija y su propio duelo, le impiden conectarse y reorganizar su vida. Lamentablemente estos temas no son explotados profundamente, las conversaciones en donde Cave enfrente a su hija o hablan de sus sentimientos no suceden a menudo y cuando lo hacen, sólo son un par de viñetas.
Lo que sí es impresionante es el arte. Una locura y una extravaganza de colores. Lo mejor es la manera en la que ilustran el ojo cibernético, es fácil darse cuenta cuando está escaneando o está haciendo algo cibernético porque está ilustrado de una manera demente. También la manera en la que distribuyen las viñetas, incluso cuando en algunas páginas no hay ni una viñeta.
El final también me gustó mucho. Aunque quede en un deliberado cliff hanger, no era el final que esperaba y me dejó esperando el segundo tomo sin duda.
Al final, este tomo contiene una carta escrita por Gerard Way donde explica lo importante que fue este título para lanzar el sello que fue Young Animal. Revela algunas cosas sobre el personaje que no sabía y que una vez que leí la carta, entendí porque aparecieron en el cómic o porque las referenciaron.
Esta historia, a pesar de la falta de originalidad, pudo ser impresionante. Por un lado parece que Cave está perdiendo la cordura porque su ojo cibernético lo está haciendo alucinar. Por otro lado los conflictos con su hija y su propio duelo, le impiden conectarse y reorganizar su vida. Lamentablemente estos temas no son explotados profundamente, las conversaciones en donde Cave enfrente a su hija o hablan de sus sentimientos no suceden a menudo y cuando lo hacen, sólo son un par de viñetas.
Lo que sí es impresionante es el arte. Una locura y una extravaganza de colores. Lo mejor es la manera en la que ilustran el ojo cibernético, es fácil darse cuenta cuando está escaneando o está haciendo algo cibernético porque está ilustrado de una manera demente. También la manera en la que distribuyen las viñetas, incluso cuando en algunas páginas no hay ni una viñeta.
El final también me gustó mucho. Aunque quede en un deliberado cliff hanger, no era el final que esperaba y me dejó esperando el segundo tomo sin duda.
Al final, este tomo contiene una carta escrita por Gerard Way donde explica lo importante que fue este título para lanzar el sello que fue Young Animal. Revela algunas cosas sobre el personaje que no sabía y que una vez que leí la carta, entendí porque aparecieron en el cómic o porque las referenciaron.
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March 20, 2017Probably the most straightforward of the Young Animal books, which is saying something given it's a subterranean pulp adventure happy to throw in whichever oddball DC characters nobody else is using. And that on top of the mysteriously unreliable eponymous organ, our hero also ends up tripping balls which layers in an extra level of hallucination. And of course, the way Oeming's art always turns everything larger-than-life anyhow. Oh, and the very unexpected twist ending. But still, underneath all that this is an old-fashioned action romp through the odd corners of a DCU which here more than anywhere else lately feels like its loveable, ridiculous old self.
That only goes for the main story, mind. Tom Scioli's back-ups, even by his own standards, feel like the fever dreams of a young Grant Morrison. They're great fun too, though.
That only goes for the main story, mind. Tom Scioli's back-ups, even by his own standards, feel like the fever dreams of a young Grant Morrison. They're great fun too, though.
January 5, 2019
This doesn't have the insane brilliance of Way's Umbrella Academy, but it's pretty good as an off-the-wall take on a Silver Age adventurer (though Cave was never anything but an also-ran back then). Years after hanging up his spelunking gear and marrying a princess of an underground civilization, the widowed Cave is a bitter man, estranged from his daughter. When it turns out his current employer has sinister plans for the underground world, Cave and Wild Dog (Way admits he prefer using obscurities because there's more freedom to interpret them) head down below with Cave's daughter Chloe. Worth a look but as the reviews show, not to everyone's taste.
April 2, 2019
Can't recommend. Campy retro that was a slog to get though. Watch the Venture Brothers instead.
January 28, 2023
girl what . gerard pick up the phone
April 23, 2023
Gerard Way just keeps proving his creativity is unstoppable and how good he is at “resetting” old characters and giving us new stories and new cliffhangers. Read this as if you’ve never read any DC before and prepare to be amazed!
June 19, 2017
There are some fun, classic pulp fiction ideas and stylistic choices that I really enjoyed in this book, but as a whole it was pretty confusing. I haven't loved any of the Young Animal books I've picked up yet, and this continues that streak. I will say it was less disjointed and bizarre than the others I've picked up. I just don't really feel like Young Animals really fits into the DC universe.
August 23, 2020
Campy, psychedelic, sci-fi pulp that has some interesting ideas for character arcs that are done a huge disservice as the story’s progression becomes less linear and more chaotic and hard to follow. Still, that’s not the main draw of the book. The main draw is the absolutely mind-bending neon art that gets even more bonkers as the series progresses. Worth a read depending on your tastes.
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