Cave Carson Has a Cybernetic Eye Vol. 1: Going Underground
-
- $17.99
-
- $17.99
Publisher Description
DC�s classic Silver Age hero is revived in CAVE CARSON HAS A CYBERNETIC EYE VOL. 1: GOING UNDERGROUND, the first chapter of a trailblazing new saga from artist Michael Avon Oeming (Powers) and writers Jonathan Rivera and My Chemical Romance�s Gerard Way, the visionary founder of DC�s Young Animal imprint! Cave Carson was once the world�s greatest underground adventurer-but that was a long time ago. When he settled down with his wife, Eileen, to raise their daughter, Chloe, he traded the controls of his vehicle, the Mighty Mole Mark 1, for a desk and keyboard. Since then, Cave has led a quiet life-even with the constant distraction of his otherworldly cybernetic eye. But when a sudden illness claims Eileen�s life, Cave�s tranquil existence is shatteredsh and he and Chloe soon find themselves hurtling down a terrifying tunnel of danger, discovery, mayhem and madness. At the bottom of that tunnel lie secrets buried for decades-secrets that hold the key to thwarting a conspiracy that threatens to consume the surface and subterranean worlds alike. But will Cave and his intrepid team of super-spelunkers be able to overcome this new generation of evil-or is there less to this hero than meets the eye? Collects issues #1-6.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
One would expect rollicking, madcap adventure from a comic series with a name like this, and the creative team writers Rivera and Way and artist Oeming partially delivers, but zaniness comes at the expense of intelligibility. The story opens with underground explorer Cave Carson, more than a decade in retirement, mourning the death of his wife, Eileen. Meanwhile, his cybernetic eye, which provides information about his surroundings, is fritzing out and causing hallucinations. An alarming message from Eileen's underground ancestral home yanks Carson out of retirement and sends him tunneling back into the earth alongside his daughter, Chloe, and sidekick, Mad Dog. The tone, which mixes pulpy adventure with serious family melodrama, resembles Way's Eisner-winning comic The Umbrella Academy, but that series had a narrative clarity that this lacks. The comic is bogged down by backstory and Oeming's cluttered art; it's not always clear what's going on, why things are happening, or what motivation drives each character.
