Robert Bearclaw

Robert Bearclaw, known as Ripclaw, is a Native American warrior whose body was cybernetically enhanced, grafting razor-sharp claws onto his hands. He channels both advanced technology and a fierce spiritual heritage as a founding member of the mutant strike team Cyberforce.

Robert Bearclaw is one of the founding faces of Image Comics' early 1990s superhero boom, debuting in Cyberforce #1 in 1992 — right at the heart of that explosive Copper/Modern Age moment when Marc Silvestri and Eric Silvestri helped launch an entirely new publisher with ambition to spare. Over nearly thirty years of publication, Bearclaw has proven himself a durable presence in the Image universe, racking up 98 catalog appearances across Cyberforce, Image United, and Shattered Image, with five of those issues carrying genuine collector-significant key status. He shares his pages with a compelling roster of characters — Cyblade, Morgan Stryker, Dominique Thiebaut, and Impact among them — making him a familiar figure in some of Image's most celebrated corners. For fans who want to trace the DNA of independent superhero comics from their scrappy, visually bold origins all the way into the modern era, Robert Bearclaw is absolutely worth tracking down.