Bionic Commando Rearmed was just released last week for X-Box Live during their Summer of Arcade. So guess what that means? Cyborgs are cool again! While playing it I got to thinking about other cool cyborgs and ended up making a list of the Top Five Cyborg Heroes of All Time in my head. I believe if the characters on this list formed a team they would be an unstoppable fighting force the likes of which the world has never seen.
Here we go!
For as long as I can remember, I’ve liked superheroes and comic books. I’m not sure when it started, but my earliest memory of a comic is Amazing Spider-Man #367 that had him on the cover fighting four fake superheroes.
I found the book incredibly cool, you had Solo the teleporting vigilante who gunned down villains, and the classic Spider-Man teaming up to fight off villains who were like some of Marvel’s coolest heroes of the time. Very few details are clear since I haven’t read the book in years, but I do remember I probably haven’t stopped collecting books since then. And I have always thirsted for the toys of these same masked men. To play with when younger, to make comics with and collect now while older.
But for as many as I buy, I secretly and strongly, hate hate hate these toys. Read the rest of this entry »
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