Cyber Force #4
Cyber Force (2018) #4 serves as the capstone of the first arc of Volume 5 — the fifth incarnation of Marc Silvestri's foundational Image Comics franchise — bringing Morgan Stryker, his daughter Velocity, and the android Aphrodite into open conflict with the villain Killjoy and a soldier displaced from the future. The issue arrived at a moment when the series was completing a rare publishing journey: it had begun as a digital Webtoon strip before being reformatted and relaunched in print by Image Comics, making the entire first four-issue arc a tangible record of how Top Cow experimented with webcomic distribution before returning to the direct market. Thematically, the arc — and this concluding chapter in particular — anchors the reboot's core argument that Silvestri's 1992 transhumanism concept had become genuinely prophetic, with writers Matt Hawkins and Bryan Hill treating the blurring of human identity through cybernetic augmentation as a present-day moral crisis rather than science-fiction speculation.
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Volume 5 of Cyber Force was first announced in 2015 as a digital-only series written by Matt Hawkins and released through the LINE Webtoon platform, with Marc Silvestri overseeing the project as its creator. After that webcomic run concluded, the material was reformatted and relaunched as a conventional periodical by Image Comics beginning in March 2018, with Bryan Hill handling scripting duties and Atilio Rojo providing interior art throughout, while Silvestri supplied covers. Issue #4, published June 27, 2018, was part of the initial batch that collected the first story arc, subsequently gathered into the trade paperback *Cyber Force: Awakening, Vol. 1* in September 2018.
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- Published June 27, 2018 by Image Comics / Top Cow Productions as part of Cyber Force Volume 5 (the fifth volume of the series, which ran 11 issues from March 2018 to July 2019).
- Written by Bryan Hill; interior art and cover art by Atilio Rojo; series overseen by and covers credited to Marc Silvestri, the franchise's original creator.
- The issue features Morgan Stryker forced to rely on both his daughter Velocity and the android Aphrodite in a confrontation with the villain Killjoy and a time-displaced soldier — conflicts seeded across the opening arc.
- Cyber Force (2018) #4 closes out the first four-issue story arc of Volume 5; issues #1–4 were subsequently collected in the trade paperback *Cyber Force: Awakening, Vol. 1* (September 2018).
- The Volume 5 series originated as a digital-first Webtoon webcomic announced in 2015, making the 2018 print run a rare example of a major Image property transitioning from a webcomic platform back into standard periodical distribution.
- The android character Aphrodite appears as a central team member in this arc, connecting the series to Top Cow's broader Aphrodite IX mythology within the shared universe.
- The series was created by Marc Silvestri in 1992 as one of the founding titles of Image Comics; Volume 5's 2018 relaunch marked the franchise's return to print after a gap following the Webtoon experiment.
- The full Volume 5 run (issues #1–11) was collected across three trade paperbacks: *Cyber Force: Awakening* Volumes 1, 2, and 3 (2018–2019).
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