BOOYAH!! Cyborg Appreciation Thread '19

[lemonpeace]

Well said.

I gotta say though, even if they remove the face plate, he's gotta keep the cybernetic eye, and I think it should be clearly cybernetic. It can be fairly small and unobtrusive rather than half his head (the YJ cartoon is moving in that direction, from the image above where Vic has a whole head of hair) but I think you can flip the "man or machine" theme and turn it into Vic seeing the world through two different perspectives, and the robot eye really helps sell that from a visual standpoint. I feel like that's the next natural step in Vic's journey; not one or the other but a fusion of both, and it keeps that "man or machine" theme active but in a different way.

that reminds me of something that I was thinking about when I was reading Walker's run. When Cyborg was regenerating there was a panel where right before he was fully regenerated he was his normal face but his eye was red and he had the blue light on his forehead. I think that would've been an interesting look for him to play with if they ever wanted to move away from the metal plating on his face. I think it more seamlessly visualizes the merging of man and machine that he symbolizes. Also, while I didn't think about until you pointed out, it would be a cool visual play on him being able to see things from two different perspectives (man and machine) and the blue light could be seen as a metaphorical "third eye" representing his uniquely transhumanist perspective due to both.