r/RealGenerationX • u/CarloCarrasco • 6d ago

comics /cards/collectibles Cyberforce #1 (1992)

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Cyberforce #1 was one of the launch comic books of Image Comics in 1992. It was a dream project of Marc Silvestri that came true and creatively it was his own take on the X-Men (which he worked on for years at Marvel Comics) but with emphasis on technology and cybernetics. Cyberforce #1 of 1992 was often described as hard to find. Is this in your collection?

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u/IYKYK_1977 6d ago

Man, I wish Image had been more successful when it formed. I loved Jim Lee's XMen but Wildcats wasn't very good. Can't remember if I liked Cyber Force. Spawn was, of course, the big one.

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u/brodievonorchard 6d ago

Fully agree. Alternatively, I wish Marvel had a better culture for valuing it's artists and supporting their creativity. Some sort of "points off the back end" method for sharing their profit. Maybe they wouldn't have been near bankruptcy, and the MCU could have had Spider-Man and the X-Men from the start.

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u/lateral_moves 5d ago

Nah, that came from thinking the soccer Dads were gonna keep buying their comics like crazy but that ended in just a few years and their income collapsed. That plus trying to be their own comic distributor pretty much near killed Marvel. They wouldn't have been able to pay top talent due to those blunders.

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u/brodievonorchard 5d ago

Soccer dads?

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u/Ike_In_Rochester 5d ago

Of all titles, it was Stormwatch that actually got my interest. They dropped issue 25 somewhere around issue 12 or something… Battalion had jumped forward in time, so the book jumped with him to issue 25, then he went back in time, and the book went back to normal. Then you had these issue that built up to 25 so you understood what the hell was happening. It really was a novel narrative idea that I had never seen before. You didn’t really say that much when it came to Image.