Broken Frontier

In issue one the teams met and battled and in issue two they were united by Ellis and given recon on Jett. Jett is a device that will outdate smartphones within seconds and unbeknownst to the user will put every digital footprint of every single individual at the disposal of Cyberdata. At this level of detailed information the fact of the matter is that the person in control of that data actually can control the planet!

Now we arrived at issue three, where Cyberforce and the Hunter-Killer team (with Ellis) are split into three teams, to be sent out around the world to dislodge the three servers that obtain and cross-reference Jett-information. The team of Velocity, Psylocke and H/K's Sam met with some huge berserker-kind of guards at the San Francisco location and triggers Morningstar (the main creepster of Hunter-Killer) to double security everywhere, since by now he knows the teams have teamed up! The Tokyo location encounters the most freaky security; cyberenhanced kids! There is something unsettling in seeing kids make a decisive act of violence against fellow humans, that is for sure. The Dubai team first shows the future of Dubai, which is unsettling since the future is not too bright for all the brightness of ideas Dubai is currently known for. Dubai really makes the third team look like amateurs and at the end of this story we have three split-up teams, trying to save their own lives and to get back for the others and at that 'moment supreme' bad guy Morningstar comes partypooping and brings detonatable toys to stop all teams at once...

And then you can read the hideous words "to be continued"...and when you feel a gruesome dislike for those words, well, then you can be sure this read has been worth your while, since you cannot wait for the concluding next story and you cannot deflect the eagerness you feel in wanting to read about heroes overcoming tremendous odds against them!!

Mark Waid sure wants to take a grim twist on present ideas (War Child, Dubai, Smartphones, Internet privacy) and places and he succeeds in most every way. The Warchildren are a bit too much for me personally, but luckily only glanced upon. Waid created a new world with Jett, that fuels conspiracy theories and also the growing feeling of 'big brother is watching' that is currently a sentiment not to be overlooked or underestimated. I wonder, by the way, if Waid would have made such an impact without the help of Rocafort, who uses details and absence of details, panels and absence of panels, colors and absence of colors, the marvelous use of light and angles and innovative practice of fracturing panels to create exclamation points. Most surely other artists have other capabilities that are suitable as well, but Rocafort's art skills are refreshing, innovative and effective as well and make for that extra kick you get when touching upon...well...something new and refreshing! Rocafort is being assisted with just the right coloring to ensure this feeling and credits surely go out to Sunny Gho of Imaginary Friends Studios!

All in all, I cannot wait for the conclusion of this story. It is sure to be mighty interesting, taking into account both the odds of survival of the heroes in this story as well as the fact that I am really anxious to see how Waid and Rocafort will pull it off!