Cyborg #9 Review – Daddy Issues
Now that all has been revealed, that Cyborg’s father was kidnapped and replaced with a cyborg-version months ago, it’s time for Cyborg to sit back and learn just how awful his father is. Like the guy didn’t have enough trust issues and resentment with his father as it is. But sure, let’s make things worse. I suppose a villain has gotta do what a villains has gotta do. But damn, this was cold, even for an angry cybernetic being.
Granted, what his father and his associates did was pretty deplorable. It’s a shame that the ways Silas Stone tried to redeem his sins only created others. Once you roll down that dark path, it’s hard to see a way out again. Dr. Stone is trying to, but every time he seems to make some headway, he tumbles down the hill again, with Sisyphus’ rock tumbling after.
In many ways, I’m sad for Silas. He is so focused on his work, he doesn’t see how his actions affect others. He didn’t see that his obsession in finding a cure for his wife was pushing away his son. Perhaps it would have been better if he actually told his son what he was doing. Perhaps Victor was always too young to understand. We’ll never know.
We’ll also never know if he would have treated his clones the same way if he knew they were truly sentient beings. Perhaps that would have prevented all of this. But if he had done that, then we wouldn’t have this pretty darn good Cyborg story arc, that continues to ask what makes one human. Since Anomaly did experience the pain and torture Silas inflicted upon him, does that make him human? Is Cyborg himself human? What about Variant?
Not to mention, without all these heinous things Silas did, we wouldn’t have this issue, which is just too darn hilarious. I’ve sent nearly all of my comic-loving friends the last page of the issue, because it literally made me laugh out loud.
Our Rating: YUS
Author: John Semper, Jr.
Artists: Paul Pelletier, Tony Kordos, and Guy Major
Publisher: DC Comics
Publish Date: 02/01/2017
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