From: friedman@python.cis.ohio-state.edu (Mark "Crimson" Friedman)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.comics.misc,rec.arts.comics.typical
Subject: Re: CYBER FORCE #1
Summary: Typical
Keywords: typical
Date: 11 Oct 92 00:55:53 GMT
Organization: NAIVE - New And Improved Virtual Environment

In article <1992Oct10.225452.25956@cs.unca.edu> mcmahan@cs.unca.edu (Scott McMahan -- Genesis mailing list owner) writes:
>This may well be *the* comic of the year!!! 

Yeah...and monkey's might fly outta...well, you know the routine...

I gave it a chance, as I have all the !substance stuff, and all I
could say was "typical."  Just another kewl team book, like we need
it.

>Marc Silvestri really blew me away. I thought it would be good. I knew
>I liked him from X-Men & Wolvie,

Which seems to be the source of a *lot* of the characters...

...which is once again...typical!

>but this art is totally and completely
>light years ahead of anything I've seen from him. 

Well, maybe it's good for *his* stuff.  Let's see...[fetches comic]
these characters are too damn flexible for the bulk they have (see
cover, guy on right (we get his name?), flexing arm)...p18,panel3: one
of our greatest kicks was to see Wolver-I MEAN, "Ripclaw" suddenly
gain 4-foot claws (neat trick)!  And this is just a quick glance...

>(It blew YB #3 away :))

Tough trick, eh?

>Do yourself a favor and get this book, and look at the art.

Well, this is the bottom line: bon't get it for the story: *ywan*.
His *brother* (Eric Silvestri) writes the thing?  Gimmie a break, eh?

>The colors are incredible, the drawing is incredible, what can I say?

Wow!  We agree here: I *do* like the Olyoptics computer coloring.  I
could dig it in Akira too.  The subtle grey wash on the flashback
scenes was a nice touch as well.

THIS is why Image is popular: the coloring is decent, so it makes the
art pleasing to look at.  Simple minds are attracted to shiny objects!
Oh course the kids aren't gonna pick up Cerebus: black and white just
doesn't catch the eye.

Sure, it's no Sienkewicz painting, but it's not all that bad...

>He's leapt from X-Men, which would be the top of most artist's careers,
>to something astounding. The uniforms and characters jump off the page.
>The grunt's battle suits are really awesome.

"AWESOME! AWESOME!"  [call of the fanboy]

Sure didn't inspire awe in me, son...

>The characters are 3D real life ones.

Hoo-boy!  Plain and simple, Silvestri doesn't relate depth well.  The
non-Euclidean planes of the last page *still* perplex me...

>And who is that blue woman?

Oh her?  She's only a blatant rip-off of Mystique from various Marvel
stuff (X-This, X-That...).  'Cept this time she's in Egyptian threads.

>That's the most visually impressive character I have ever seen.

Well, she *is* 10-11 heads tall!  So you get off on tall chicks  with
legs up their ample breasts...I can see that!  ;-)

>Get it!!!

I did!!!  It's typical!!!

However, I do encourage people to take a look: it's certainly isn't
the worse title by far.  I might even give the second issue a chance,
though it looks like it's gonna be a team vs team brawl... (yech!)

And why, OH WHY do they have to stick that heavy-stock Image #0 crap
in the pages!?!?  Like...we...care?

						- Mark

Oh, and just to add insult to injury:
	"I'm so *bored*...I may as well be listening to Genesis!"
						-- Rik (The Young Ones)

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