23. Cyberforce vol 1 limited series #1 to 4 ... Image ...

[I admit that I am a fan of Marc Silvestri back when he was on Uncanny X-Men but never collected his works on Wolverine and though the action scenes are great, there is always a sense of rushed-ness to his pages as if he has taken on too much]

This is Marc's offering to the house of I when he came onboard as a co-founder to Image. Rather than come up with a host of ideas on his own, Marc decided to use what he was famous for at Marvel - mutants. Hence, Cyberforce! They are a bunch of mutants being 'mind-controlled' by a 'bad corporation' that uses cybernetic enhancements on them to make them even more 'powerful'

A bunch of them decided to go rogue and started freeing others similar to their predicament and thus with that, they decided to combat the 'evil corporation' wherever it may exists

The baddie is Cyberdata. However, in the vein of all good 80s Hong Kong flicks, as if that wasn't enough, there is even more to the mix in the form of a baddie called Mother May I who has some sort of weak hypnotic powers. She is all in blue ala Mystique of X-Men and has like a third eye on her forehead. She is having an affair or mind controlling Kimata of Cyberdata while trying to work out a political angle for she and her fellow mutants while simultaneously trying to qualify herself as a mutant terrorist. She even talks to inanimate objects like the Statue of Liberty ... I kid you not ... just to accentuate her weirdness or madness

And of course to give Cyberforce a villainous group we have SHOC troops and their 'leaders'

What is the saving grace? The interior pages and their awesome colouring are even better than the covers! And Marc's artwork improves by leaps and bounds from issue to issue. You just check out issues 1 and 2 and see the huge improvements

Ratings: 8/10 (for interior artwork - score 2 points)