Cyber Force #4
Writer: Bryan Hill & Matt Hawkins
Artist / Cover: Atilio Rojo
Letterer: Troy Peteri
Morgan Stryker doesn’t want his daughter fighting alongside him. He doesn’t trust the android named Aphrodite that has the power to kill him…but he’ll need them both if he’s to stand in the face of Killjoy and a soldier from the future…who wants to keep our future from ever taking place.
This July, writer/Top Cow President and COO Matt Hawkins, writer/editor Ryan Cady, and digital art concept/production studio Studio Hive will release Warframe, Vol. 1, collecting issues #1-5 of the Warframe online game tie-in series.
In the far future, humanity’s descendants scramble to survive in a solar system rife with conflict. Only the Tenno, a faction of powerful warriors, fight to preserve peace and keep the technological masterpieces of the long-dead Orokin out of the wrong hands. But when a faction of enhanced Grineer soldiers begin to scour the Earth for a particular hidden artifact, only a lone Tenno and a blinded girl can stop them.
Warframe, Vol. 1 (ISBN: 978-1-5343-0512-0, Diamond code: MAY180094) will hit comics shops on Wednesday, July 25th and bookstores on Tuesday, July 31st.
SWING, VOL. 1
Created by Linda Sejic, Matt Hawkins, and Jenni Cheung
Written by Matt Hawkins & Jenni Cheung
Art & Lettered by Linda Sejic
Spinning off from the universe of Sunstone comes a slice of life romantic story about a couple trying to regain the sexual energy from the beginning of their relationship by swinging with other couples. An emotional journey of two people fighting to stay in love.
CYBER FORCE #3
Writer: Bryan Hill & Matt Hawkins
Artist / Cover: Atilio Rojo
Age Rating: M
Who is the mother of artificial intelligence? The reimagining of CYBER FORCE continues as the origins of the “Aphrodite Project” are revealed…along with the dark intentions of the group that helped create her.
WARFRAME #5
Writer: Matt Hawkins & Ryan Cady
Artist: Studio Hive
Cover: Kevin Glint
Letterer: Troy Peteri
Age Rating: T+
The first arc concludes in a race for survival. As Captain Vor seeks to claim the Orokin’s bounty for himself, the Lotus’s heroes make desperate choices in the pursuit of justice. But will victory over the Grineer mean losing everything they’ve fought for?
Writer Matt Hawkins and artist Raffaele Ienco team up for an all-new original graphic novel series beginning with Stairway, Vol. 1 this August.
Stairway, Vol. 1 follows a postgraduate student who discovers a way to unlock information hidden deep in our “junk DNA,” and parts of bio-schematics and other pieces of baffling data are found. This discovery triggers the largest scientific initiative since the Manhattan Project, with teams of scientists working to collect and collate this information. But will they find a stairway to heaven, or will they unleash something that will kill us all?
Stairway, Vol. 1 (Diamond Code JUN180083, ISBN: 978-1-5343-0801-5) hits stores on Wednesday, August 22nd and bookstores on Tuesday, August 28th.
WARFRAME #4
Story: Matt Hawkins, Ryan Cady, Cam Rogers & Ryan Mole
Art / Cover: Studio Hive
On the other side of the Void Gate, the Lotus’s Tenno and her allies discover Orokin secrets beyond their imagining. But they’re far from alone on the vessel, as something horrible from the past awakens….
SWING, VOL. 1 OGN
Written by Matt Hawkins, Jenni Cheung
Art / Cover: Linda Sejic
Story and Character developed by Linda Sejic, Stjepan Sejic, Matt Hawkins, Jenni Cheung
Published: May 30, 2018
Diamond ID: FEB180533
Age Rating: M
Spinning off from the universe of SUNSTONE comes a slice-of-life romantic story about a couple trying to regain the sexual energy from the beginning of their relationship by swinging with other couples. An emotional journey of two people fighting to stay in love.
In a modern world where humanity is defined by the technology it creates, a terrorist strikes at the heart of human progress. One of the few survivors of the attack is a man named Morgan Stryker. Mortally wounded, Stryker’s life is saved by his employers…but the price could be his humanity itself.
The classic series returns in a reimagining overseen by creator Marc Silvestri and with that I’ve been excited to see where it all goes. The concept of Cyberforce in a today’s world has a lot of potential. And I’ll admit I expected the first issue to be interesting as to how it might reflect that. Writers Matt Hawkins and Bryan Hill give us a glimpse of that potential with a focus on a addiction to technology and those who want to break us of that. And the Cyberforce team itself is the blending of technology and humanity. It’s a forced use of technology much like we experience every day.
There’s also the aspect of the terrorist attack and the person forced to seek revenge. That aspect of the story feels like a trope at this point and something we’ve seen so many times before by Hawkins and Hill give it enough emotional heft to make it feel original.
The art by Atilio Rojo is interesting and feels a lot like the styles we’ve seen on previous iterations of the series. But, there’s also a unique take on the familiar characters themselves with slight differences that you can tell this is Rojo’s unique take on them. There are issues with the art though. Stryker makes a comment about a third arm, with no third arm present. It’s an odd moment where the dialogue and art doesn’t sync up.
I really enjoyed previous volumes so there’s a bar for this debut issue and I’m happy to say, the first issue clears it. It nails what it needs and gives us a new origin story that takes us in some new fresh directions. If you’ve ever wanted to check out this “classic” series, this is a perfect issue to start with.
Story: Matt Hawkins, Bryan Hill Art: Atilio Rojo Lettering: Troy Peteri
Story: 7.75 Art: 7.5 Overall: 7.6 Recommendation: Read
Image Comics provided Graphic Policy with a FREE copy for review
Cyberforce #1
Story: Matt Hawkins, Bryan Hill
Art: Atilio Rojo
Cover A: Marc Silvestri
Cover B: Atilio Rojo
Lettering: Troy Peteri
Editor: Elena Salcedo
In Shops: Mar 28, 2018
SRP: $3.99
TO PROTECT THE FUTURE, WHAT WILL WE BECOME?
The classic series returns in a reimagining overseen by creator MARC SILVESTRI. In a modern world where humanity is defined by the technology it creates, a terrorist strikes at the heart of human progress. One of the few survivors of the attack is a man named Morgan Stryker. Mortally wounded, Stryker’s life is saved by his employers…but the price could be his humanity itself.
