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Cyborg Gets A Fuller Figure (Spoilers)

Published Wed, 23 Dec 2015 12:00:52 -0600

Today's Cyborg #6 gets the closest you are likely to get to answering a certain question.

Ex-Bleeding Cool writer and Comics Alliance EIC Andrew Wheeler wrote,

At Emerald City Comic-Con earlier this year I was lucky enough to be on a panel on diversity and representation with David F. Walker, two months after his Cyborg title was announced. During the panel Walker, a black man, mentioned something about the character that I had never considered; Cyborg is an emasculated black man. In his New 52 origin story, he lost the entire bottom half of his body, which means that before becoming Cyborg, he was castrated. This was, for Walker, a problem with the character.

While the preview and stories so far seem to show a Cyborg who can grow back what appears to be flesh, this may well have been answered.

Walker may have made it his first order of business to right a wrong and give the character back his lost cultural identity. Even if the restoration is never directly addressed on the page, it can safely be inferred as a likely and intended consequence of this change.

Well in today's Cyborg, it gets as close to the page as it is probably every likely to, as he achieves 100% regeneration of his body.

It's him. All of him.

Comics courtesy of Orbital Comics, London, currently showcasing the work of the artists involved with Avery Hill, a publishing company based in South London.