Cyborg #9 [Carlos D'Anda Variant Cover]

(Early April 2017)

The Imitation of Life Part Nine: Escape from S.T.A.R. Labs (Table of Contents: 1)

Cyborg / comic story / 20 pages (report information)

Script

John Semper Jr.

Pencils

Paul Pelletier

Inks

Tony Kordos

Colors

Guy Major

Letters

Rob Leigh

Genre

superhero

Characters

Dr. Silas Stone; Elinore Stone (video recording); Cyborg [Victor Stone]; Anomaly [Dr. Silas Stone doppelganger; O.T.A.C. 13]; Xenephon "Exxy" Clark; Dr. Thomas Oscar Morrow (video recording); O.T.A.C.s (replicants of Dr. Silas Stone, flashback); unnamed unscrupulous scientists (flashback, deaths); Aldous (scientist turned man/machine hybrid); Haxaan (cybernetic giant insect)

Synopsis

The Dr. Silas Stone doppelganger, now identified as the cybernetic being Anomaly, reveals his origin to Victor: the real Dr. Silas Stone created a series of replicants of himself called O.T.A.C.s in an attempt to cure his wife of cancer, but after he failed, the replicants ended up in the hands of unscrupulous scientists who experimented on them. Only the 13th replicant, O.T.A.C. 13, survived to exact revenge on the scientists and Dr. Stone as Anomaly. Now Victor and Exxy must battle Anomaly to save Dr. Stone and themselves.

Reprints

• in Cyborg (DC, 2017 series) #2 - Danger in Detroit ([October] 2017)

Keywords

S.T.A.R. Labs

Indexer Notes

The Dr. Silas Stone doppelganger, identified in issue #8 as O.T.A.C, takes the name Anomaly in this issue. The man/machine hybrid who has been the real Dr. Stone's captor since issue #5 is revealed to be a transformed scientist named Aldous.