“Yesterday’s” Comic> Velocity volume 2 #1

She’s a speedster. You expect her to search for high heels?

Velocity volume 2 #1

Image Comics/Top Cow (June, 2010)

“Decoys” part 1

WRITER: Ron Marz

PENCILER/INKER: Kenneth Rocafort

COLORIST: Sunny Gho

LETTERER: Troy Peteri

EDITORS: Filip Sablik & Phil Smith

Carin Taylor is back, but she also goes by Velocity, a member of Cyberforce. A scientist who was a self-inflicted early participant in designing the implants that give the Cyberforce their abilities is jealous of their remaining mostly human and has kidnapped Velocity. He creates duplicates of her to infect the others with a virus that will kill them in one hour. However, his containment method hadn’t accounted for some changes in her body that allow her to escape. Now she has one hour to cure herself and her team.

The comic also features a short preview to a story called “Artifacts” that seems to be tied to Witchblade’s continuity. There’s not enough there to review and not my kind of story anyway.

What they got right: Everything you need to know about Velocity’s backstory and personality are showcased rather easily, worked in alongside the story reintroducing the characters. Ask some writers and this is impossible, and yet here it is. The art is a bit darker in color for me personally but otherwise quite good. The threat for this storyline is also set up well.

What they got wrong: The cover used for the digital version (because of course there are variant covers) is just her trying on shoes. Not very interesting compared to the story inside. As for the villain of this piece: Doctor Erasmus Paine? Okay, it’s a real first name and last name (and according to Google translate that came up while making sure the last name goes under that spelling…also Romanian for “bread”), but it’s still a hard one to take seriously.

What I think overall: This is a good start to probably the only Cyberforce universe character I have any interest in. Wouldn’t mind reading more. Still annoyed they got to make a Cyberforce comic before I ever did anything with my version, and while we both came up with it in the 1990s I know he didn’t steal it from me because we never met and it was just a concept in a notebook. It was such a cool name, but my idea was totally different.