DC’s Young Animal Line Adds CAVE CARSON HAS A CYBERNETIC EYE This Week
DC’s newest imprint “Young Animal” aims to appeal to those that want something a bit more off-beat and a touch more weird than the standard superhero shenanigans we are getting with the “Rebirth” offerings. While the “Rebirth” relaunch has been pretty amazing, I must admit that this new “Young Animal” business seems to be where the party is at. If the new DOOM PATROL is any indication, we are in for some fun and weird books.
Which brings us to CAVE CARSON HAS A CYBERNETIC EYE #1 releasing this week. Written by DOOM PATROLS’ very own Gerard Way alongside Jon Rivera with Michael Avon Oeming on art duty. Let’s take a sniff at what we’re dealing with.
Cave Carson has done it all: survived countless adventures below the Earth’s surface, met the love of his life, and gotten a cybernetic eye…somehow. After he and his wife, Eileen, sent their only daughter Chloe off to college, Cave was ready to become just another mundane member of the surface world. That is, until Eileen got sick. Newly widowed, Cave tries to piece his life back together when a knock on the door of his secret underground lab pulls him back into a past that he and Eileen thought they had left buried deep within the Earth. Adding to his troubles, Cave must determine if his recent hallucinations and visions are the work of his mind or his mysterious cybernetic eye. (Spoiler: It’s the eye.) Written by Gerard Way (DOOM PATROL, Umbrella Academy) and Jon Rivera (Heartbreak), and illustrated by Michael Avon Oeming (Powers), this is an absurdist action-adventure story unlike any other!
Sounds like a great fit for “Young Animal” to me. And believe it or not, old Cave Carson has been around since the 60′s adventuring his behind off! He’s never had his own book, but he has shown up a few times in the DCU and does get nods every once in awhile. He was never a part of anything big enough to go mainstream like his old pal Rip Hunter, but that’s all about to change now that he is front and center in his very own book. I’ve got a good feeling about this one folks. Give the old guy a chance will ya?
Words by Jason Furie
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