The Complete Cyberforce, Volume 1

by Marc Silvestri, Eric Silvestri, Jim Lee (Artist)

GO BACK TO THE BEGINNING! To coincide with the groundbreaking 30TH Anniversary of Top Cow and Image comics. Top Cow proudly presents the original stories that launched the series, collecting the very first Cyberforce story, "Tin Men of War." Fans can go back and rediscover the introduction of characters like Velocity, Ripclaw, Heatwave, Cyblade, Stryker, Impact, and Ballistic to the world of comics with brilliant art by Marc Silvestri. All this and more, gorgeously rendered and assembled in this first volume of absolute collected editions. First time back to print since 1992!

Collects: CYBERFORCE #0, TIN MEN OF WAR #1-4, KILLER INSTINCT CROSSOVER WITH WILDCATS #5-7, VOLUME 2 #1-13, ORIGINS: #1 CYBLADE, #2 STRYKER, AND CYBERFORCE ANNUAL #1

Genres: Comics, Graphic Novels, Fiction

664 pages, Hardcover

First published August 17, 2022

About the author

Marc Silvestri is an American comic book artist, creator and publisher. He currently acts as the CEO for Top Cow Productions.

Reviews

[Highland G · Rating 1 out of 5]

The story is very inconsistent, writers jumping in for an issue or two at a time and ignoring the previous story. Art has a similar issue, characters get drawn in the wrong place or wrong outfit all over the place. And don’t even get me started on the 13 colourists per issue really adding to the confusion.
I wanted to enjoy this and when it had brief moments of consistency, I did. Otherwise it’s a big mess and leaves plot holes everywhere, ignores things that happened in the previous issue or even previous page and just doesn’t care. I don’t know what else to say, I am disappointed and very confused by this mess.

[Evan · Rating 2 out of 5]

Nostalgia did this book no favors. The writing and story is all over the place but ultimately goes nowhere. I love Marc Silvestri’s artwork. However almost half of this collection is drawn by Silvestri with assistance by artists who were new at the time and the art really suffers for it. I guess 18 year old Evan was much more forgiving.

[Sérgio Freitas · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book is a stark reminder of 90’s superhero comics: all style and no substance. Buy it for the pretty pictures and turn off your brain.

[OmniBen · Rating 3 out of 5]

(Zero spoiler review) 2.75/5
After six issues I was done with this. The writing was terrible. The page layouts were awful. Even Silvestri's usually stellar artwork was massively disappointing, embodying the very worst of the generic 90's. The plot lines were almost as ridiculous as the anatomy, and I couldn't have been less interested if I tried. Like I said, I was done. Although for whatever reason, I gave it one more chance, and although it never rose above average, I still found enough here along the way to keep me reading. The stories improved, at least a little, with the solo background issues being the only true highlights here. With the absurdness of the world and the fairly generic team aspects of the book sidelined for a focused, more grounded story, it worked much better. The layouts improved immediately, whether intentionally or otherwise. Even Silvestri's art noticeably improved from issue seven onwards. This sort of thing is never going to be my favourite part of his career, but it still knocked the modern, digital, inkless dreck into the nearest bin.
There is nothing here that would ever prompt a re-read, and the most fervent fans of this would have to be those keen for a fix of nostalgia, having read this in their younger days. It's fairly bland, forgettable superhero fare, but it does scratch a very specific itch that sure as hell hasn't been scratched in quite a while. 2.75/5


OmniBen.

[Marcelo Soares · Rating 4 out of 5]

Ah!
600 páginas!
Eu disse SEISCENTAS PÁGINAS de noventismo!
Noventismo mesmo, noventismo raiz, todos os personagens são chupados de outros personagens, as histórias nunca terminam e começam no meio do nada, não existe absolutamente nenhum desenvolvimento, ninguém entende porra nenhuma porque tudo é envolto em mistérios misteriosos e segredos secretos!
Primeiro de tudo, claramente a Cyberforce é um "copia, mas não faz igual" dos X-Men:
- tem o cara que parece o Wolverine;
- tem o cara que parece o Ciclope;
- tem o cara que parece o Colossus;
- tem a mina que parece a Psylocke;
- tem a mina que parece a Jubileu;
- tem o cara que parece o Cable com três braços;
- tem a mina que parece o Cable;
- todo mundo usa sobretudos da mesma loja do Gambit.
A primeira mini, The Tin Man of War, é sobre a fuga da Velocity, a mina que parece a Jubileu, da Cyberdata, uma corporação maligna que quer dominar o mundo através de ciborgues mutantes, e como o Ripclaw, o cara que parece o Wolverine, a salva e ela se envolve com a Cyberforce, no meio do caminho tem um drama familiar; a mina que parece a Jubileu é irmã da mina que parece o Cable e ambas são filhas de uma outra mina que parece a Mística.
A próxima mini, Killer Instinct, é um encontro com os GATOS Selvagens do Jim Lee.
Uma edição feita pelo time Silvestri-Williams e outra pelo time Lee-Choi.
Meus amigos, é dureza, mas é tão ruim que fica bom; o texto é cheio de termos pseudo militares e siglas pra tudo, os desenhos, bom, o Lee e o Silvestri tão no auge então tem um pouco de tudo, menos pés. Sério, tem edições que parece que tá todo mundo acocado fazendo um cocozinho no meio do mato ou se preparando pra sair correndo. A história, bom, o fiapo de história é que os GATOS Selvagens foram explodir alguma coisa em Gamorra, o Ripclaw resolveu ir a Gamorra para enfrentar o Warblade, o GATO Selvagem que parece o filho bastardo do Wolverine e do Senhor Fantástico, e a Cyberforce foi atrás e o pau quebrou e depois eles fizeram as pazes.
As próximas 15 edições são do segundo volume da Cyberforce, mais umas duas de origens dos personagens, e basicamente se limitam aos personagens enfrentando alguma ameaça que sempre termina na Cyberdata, ou a Cyberforce faz alguma cagada e precisa invadir a Cyberdata pra resolver. As últimas edições deixam um "fica pra depois" com viagem no tempo e novos inimigos, os Mekadom - insetos robôs espaciais, não sei.
Duas curiosidades:
-não aparece, em momento algum, um mutante que não seja ciborgue;
- o único personagem original é o Warbuck, o homem-alce, segurança da mina que parece a Mística, que não fala nada e só serve pra levar tiro.
Eu achei bem divertido, mas aquele divertido meio culpado, porque fica o questionamento: eu lia isso nos anos 90 e achava legal mesmo?
Achava, e os óculos da nostalgia me dizem que eu continuo achando.

[Joel Jenkins · Rating 5 out of 5]

I'd read a handful of these back in the nineties when they came out and had always been intrigued, so I was quite interested to read all the issues I missed. The artwork, except for one notable exception, was very good. The characters start out as ciphers with not a lot of explanation of their powers or their history. In some ways, this is advantageous because the characters maintain an aura of mystery.

In other ways, it is a bit confusing, because it takes time to sort out which characters are working for Cyberforce or Cyberdata. This is exacerbated by the fact that most of the characters start out working for the corrupt Cyberdata company and then defect.

Eventually, things are made clear enough with a couple of origin issues. However, the Stryker origin issue has a fill-in artist and it's not up to par. Overall, this was a cool and nostalgic read. It seems to me that a lot could still be done with these characters in the future--but it seems more likely that they will remain an artifact of Image Comics' brief heyday.

[Sean Gallagher · Rating 3 out of 5]

Like many things that came out of the comics industry in the 90s, Cyber Force was often great to look at, mind-numbingly dull as well as equally overwrought to read, and overall forgettable. Big dudes with big guns who also happen to be cyborgs and sometimes, there are ladies with somewhat smaller guns but are still cyborgs (and one called, Cyblade, which in my head I kept calling Cybabe). I didn't hate it. I didn't like it. Guess it was comparable to sitting on a plastic seat that's been left out in the sun during the summer, it burns and it hurts, but you get used it and kinda miss the pain.

[Héctor · Rating 3 out of 5]

Poor quality paper and printing, sparse extras, specially comparing it to the similar Absolute Wildcats.
The stories are still as good as when they came out originally, but the printed edition is not good.

[John J Milton · Rating 4 out of 5]

Great artwork but the story quite repetitive and you kinda not get anything back. But every almost every panel is impressive in detail.

[Captain_Creepy · Rating 4 out of 5]

Nostalgic nonsense and a whole lot of fun. Well put together beautiful book. I haven’t read these stories since the 90’s and it was nice to revisit them.

[Amber Robbins · Rating 5 out of 5]

My favorite series growing up

[Tony Calder · Rating 4 out of 5]

Some interesting storylines, although occasionally a bit confusing. The artwork is excellent, the cheesecake quotient is a bit high, although perfectly in line with superhero comics of the 90s.

[Nik · Rating 4 out of 5]

it was pretty fun! the art is great, the colors are very immersive, the stories are nothing crazy though but still a lot of fun! the last ones were pretty weird with this time traveling, and everything ends with a cliffhanger which is a little dissapointing, but overall still, very exciting! if you've got tired of marvel and dc universe, this is a perect read and a totally new universe!
4/5