Eye For an Eye
Written By: Jon Rivera
Story By: Gerard Way & Jon Rivera
Art & Cover By: Michael Avon Oeming
Interior and Cover Color By: Nick Filardi
Letters By: Clem Robbins
Cover Price: $3.99
On Sale Date: August 16, 2017
**NON SPOILERS AND SCORE AT THE
BOTTOM**
I have been wondering about that android woman that
the Cave Carson from another dimension made at the end of last issue—is it
Mazra? Red Tornado? A mixture of both? I hope we’ll get some answers in my
review of Cave Carson Has a Cybernetic
Eye #11. And hey, we’re in luck! The review is right here!
Explain
It!
So it turns out that android created in the alternate
universe, by that world’s Cave Carson and Doc Magnus, and using information
gleaned from our Cave Carson’s cybernetic eye—it’s Mazra, his dead Muldroogan
wife. Or a being based on his memories of her, which is fairly well close
enough at this point. The idea is that only someone with Muldroogan royal blood
can defeat the Whisperer and stop its rampage across the multiverse, which is a
callback to the very dungeon in which the Whisperer had been imprisoned needing
to be opened by Muldroogan royalty. That time, Paul Borstein used Cave’s
father-in-law, the King of Muldroog, to crack the Whisperer cage…but I seem to
recall that Cave’s daughter and half-Muldroogan princess Chloe could also open
those massive stone doors…hmm…
While Paul Borstein is being mutated into some
horrible being within the Whisperer, now a gigantic Vaughn Bodé character
attended by two equally giant zombies with erections, Alternate Cave further
explains that they sent cybernetic eyes around the Multiverse to find someone
that could defeat the Whisperer, and one of these eyes found its way into Our
Cave’s right eye socket. Furthermore, they then guided his life in such a way
that he would wed Mazra and have a ton of memories with her, which could then
be used to make a Mazra robot. Or something. Point is, this Mazra android is
the only thing that can clobber the Whisperer. Why they didn’t appeal to the
actual Mazra when she was alive, or even kidnap her since subterfuge and
manipulation are part of the current plan anyway, I’ve no idea. To make matters
stickier, Alternate Cave’s honey Christie Madison is glad to see our world’s
Johnny Blake alive and well in her reality, which would jibe with their
relationship in the Silver Age stories. Their relationship, like that
explanation, is complicated.
But no time for romancing, it’s time to fight the
Whisperer! And fight, er, her Mazra does, after Wild Dog takes out one of the
giant zombies’ heads with a missile. Hey, he had to do something in this issue!
Mazra is able to knock the Whisperer with powerful punches, which the Whisperer
did not expect, so she hocks an actual purple loogie at Mazra, then waps her
deep into some crater or something. The group of…everyone assembled is ready to
retreat, but now Our Cave! He’s got to go save this android manifestation
created from memories of his ex-wife! Sounds perfectly normal to me!
Since the next issue the last before…look, let’s stop
beating around the bush here. It’s the last issue. Yes, it “may” come back in
the future, the same way a Legion of Super-Heroes book “may” come out any time.
Looking at the distributed numbers for this comic, however, it seems unlikely
in the near future. And perhaps that’s too bad, but if we get a solid
twelve-issue story with the next installment, then I’d say it was a venture
worth taking. Visually, this is a really impressive issue, maybe moreso than
the last couple. I’m hoping this thing finishes strong because it’s been a
pretty cool ride to this point.
Bits and
Pieces:
This comic has rounded the last corner of its final lap, and it looks like we might finish strong. While we have spent too many single issues on a specific story, this will make a solid couple of trade collections...which may have been the intention all along. Not to dismiss the fun of it! This comic is a good time but trade-waiters may feel even more for it.
8/10
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