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Cave Carson Has an Interstellar Eye
Cave Carson and his daughter Chloe get sucked into an all-new adventure--literally--when they go spelunking in a black hole! DC's Young Animal presents the mind-bending, modern-day misadventures of DC's classic Silver Age hero continued in Cave Carson Has an Interstellar Eye!
After a year of Multiverse-hopping and fighting in the Milk Wars, returning to a normal life of digging and cave-diving just isn't the same for explorer Cave Carson. Sure, he's got his podcast, family and that cybernetic eye, but reminiscing about times gone by isn't the same as living. Luckily for Cave Carson and his daughter Chloe, they're about to embark on an all-new adventure when they go spelunking in a black hole! But what's caused this black hole to appear and what's its connection to the intergalactic music sensation Star Adam?
From the creative team of Jon Rivera and Michael Avon Oeming, under the watchful (but admittedly non-interstellar) eye of DC's Young Animal founder (and My Chemical Romance front man) Gerard Way! Collects issues #1-6.
After a year of Multiverse-hopping and fighting in the Milk Wars, returning to a normal life of digging and cave-diving just isn't the same for explorer Cave Carson. Sure, he's got his podcast, family and that cybernetic eye, but reminiscing about times gone by isn't the same as living. Luckily for Cave Carson and his daughter Chloe, they're about to embark on an all-new adventure when they go spelunking in a black hole! But what's caused this black hole to appear and what's its connection to the intergalactic music sensation Star Adam?
From the creative team of Jon Rivera and Michael Avon Oeming, under the watchful (but admittedly non-interstellar) eye of DC's Young Animal founder (and My Chemical Romance front man) Gerard Way! Collects issues #1-6.
168 pages, Paperback
Published December 18, 2018
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January 9, 2019
Cave and his daughter, Chloe head to space where they go on some trippy adventures and meet a David Bowie-esque singer. I've never seen such vibrant colors on a book. Oeming's art works well with the look but some panels were just way too busy. I couldn't tell what was going on at times. Overall, the book was a bit too psychedelic for me.
October 9, 2018
2.5, gets way to psychedelic and loses a lot of the campy goodness of the first series.
World: I love Oeming's art since I read Powers many years ago and I still love the stylish art, this is simply the best reason to read the book simply to see the framing and the color and the style. The world building is pretty interesting and solid, readers are thrown into the action and the world but it's well thought out and pretty insane. As I said above this time around the world is pretty out there and insane, where as the first series was really pulpy, this one is really psychedelic and if you like that in your world building you'll enjoy it, for me it was slightly a bit too much.
Story: The continuing adventure of the Mighty Mole was something I was really anticipating, I really enjoyed the first series, part family drama, part pulpy science fiction and adventure it was a really fun read. There is more of it here, a cosmic adventure with family drama which is what I wanted. However this time around there is a huge dose of out there psychedelic imagery and story points and I felt it took me away from the story and also fractured the story into something that was less cohesive and comprehensible. I love psychedelic when done right, I remember having my mind blown reading Morrison and his Doom Patrol run with Mr. Nobody but wow here the stories don't really land anything cause it is so out there. There are hints of Dad and daughter character moments but they don't really land. In the first series there was the story of Mom and where she was and also the fish out of water when Cave took his daughter on a journey to his past. Here we don't have the large foil of the mother and the 6 issues here are pretty fractured into 3 separate tales that are somewhat tied together but there is none of the huge emotional impact of the first 12 issues. In the end the series ends and I feel it was a missed opportunity.
Characters: Cave is an interesting character with a lot of baggage and past that is both canon and also new and I really enjoy going back into his history. Chloe is also an interesting character an a perfect counterpoint to Cave, their relationship is the core of the series and that's what drew me into the first series. The further development of their complex relationship is hinted and developed here and I wished we had more small and quiet moments but as I said the fractured story kinda hurt this aspect of the book. I have already forgotten the other companion in the Mighty Mole and it's a testament of how thinly written he is.
I thought this series was okay, it's nowhere near as good as the first series and I think it loses a lot of what I loved about the first series though which is a shame.
Onward to the next book!
*read individual issues*
World: I love Oeming's art since I read Powers many years ago and I still love the stylish art, this is simply the best reason to read the book simply to see the framing and the color and the style. The world building is pretty interesting and solid, readers are thrown into the action and the world but it's well thought out and pretty insane. As I said above this time around the world is pretty out there and insane, where as the first series was really pulpy, this one is really psychedelic and if you like that in your world building you'll enjoy it, for me it was slightly a bit too much.
Story: The continuing adventure of the Mighty Mole was something I was really anticipating, I really enjoyed the first series, part family drama, part pulpy science fiction and adventure it was a really fun read. There is more of it here, a cosmic adventure with family drama which is what I wanted. However this time around there is a huge dose of out there psychedelic imagery and story points and I felt it took me away from the story and also fractured the story into something that was less cohesive and comprehensible. I love psychedelic when done right, I remember having my mind blown reading Morrison and his Doom Patrol run with Mr. Nobody but wow here the stories don't really land anything cause it is so out there. There are hints of Dad and daughter character moments but they don't really land. In the first series there was the story of Mom and where she was and also the fish out of water when Cave took his daughter on a journey to his past. Here we don't have the large foil of the mother and the 6 issues here are pretty fractured into 3 separate tales that are somewhat tied together but there is none of the huge emotional impact of the first 12 issues. In the end the series ends and I feel it was a missed opportunity.
Characters: Cave is an interesting character with a lot of baggage and past that is both canon and also new and I really enjoy going back into his history. Chloe is also an interesting character an a perfect counterpoint to Cave, their relationship is the core of the series and that's what drew me into the first series. The further development of their complex relationship is hinted and developed here and I wished we had more small and quiet moments but as I said the fractured story kinda hurt this aspect of the book. I have already forgotten the other companion in the Mighty Mole and it's a testament of how thinly written he is.
I thought this series was okay, it's nowhere near as good as the first series and I think it loses a lot of what I loved about the first series though which is a shame.
Onward to the next book!
*read individual issues*
January 5, 2019
3.5. There were some parts I really loved -- Star Adam, and Prince Elium -- but I think the rest drifted too far into the Shade and Eternity Girl side of Young Animal. I love both of them, but the trippy psychedelic surreal style got out of hand, too far away from the pulpiness it had before, the pulpiness that was kind of unique especially in the Young Animal line. Also I had no memory of Bartow at all and was slightly confused about the other supporting characters and backstory which I only sort of remembered.
September 4, 2021
This could have kept going on, but maybe it's good it ended where it did. Lots of trippy fun seeing Cave Carson lead his friends thru cosmic psychedelic adventures... He seems hard headed but we learn the things he's had to bury in his life. Looks like they were trying to replace him with his daughter which would have sucked. She's a minor minor character, not a lead. Poor Bulldozer.
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September 7, 2018"Welcome to deep space, where life tries out its new material. It's mostly terrible, but once in a while you find something special." A vision quest in which Cave and his kid work out their family issues via alien wars, a Bowie analogue who's literally a star, hallucinogenic fungus, and all the other good stuff in which too many stories about working out family issues are sadly deficient. It would never have worked without such lurid, psychedelic art - yet art still able to pull back and pull off a quiet character moment - but fortunately, they had the team for the job. It will be missed.
March 20, 2019
Cave Carson, the explorer of below the Earth's surface, goes to space. And it's a pretty fun time too. There are three good stories here that wrap up the series. It just wrapped up a little too quickly in the last few pages. It could have used one more issue.
March 30, 2022
5
After Milk Wars all the Young Animal imprints ended. I actually enjoyed these more than the original series. The book is cerebral and full of amazing artwork.
After Milk Wars all the Young Animal imprints ended. I actually enjoyed these more than the original series. The book is cerebral and full of amazing artwork.
January 24, 2019
Young Animal has largely been hit or miss for me. It's clear that the line-wide theme is to make books full of enough absurdity and psychedelica that it would make Steve Gerber or Grant Morisson proud. It's always been absurd but not always good. I found the first two volumes of Cave Carson found a pretty good balance in that aspect.
I think this third volume was actually even better than the two that came before. The reason that Rivera has been successful where some of the other Young Animal books have failed is that he plays it very straight. He writes these books like a surrealist pulp serial and so you get the fun adventure plot along side the psychedelics. I like the Sci fi bent in this volume compared to the more action/adventure style of the first two. Imagine Flash Gordon or Buck Rogers if they'd started ingesting copious amounts of shrooms and LSD.
I've always found Michael Avon Oeming's art to be good when matched with a story that fits his style. That's not generally the case with super hero stuff but it's definitely the case here. His cartoony interiors are a great match for both the pulp feel and the more mind bending elements. Nick Filardi on colors also helps establish a proper feel for the story.
I'm enjoying this series quite a bit and I hope some of the other Young Animal books can find use these books as a guide of how to incorporate psychedelic elements while balancing it with a solid story.
I think this third volume was actually even better than the two that came before. The reason that Rivera has been successful where some of the other Young Animal books have failed is that he plays it very straight. He writes these books like a surrealist pulp serial and so you get the fun adventure plot along side the psychedelics. I like the Sci fi bent in this volume compared to the more action/adventure style of the first two. Imagine Flash Gordon or Buck Rogers if they'd started ingesting copious amounts of shrooms and LSD.
I've always found Michael Avon Oeming's art to be good when matched with a story that fits his style. That's not generally the case with super hero stuff but it's definitely the case here. His cartoony interiors are a great match for both the pulp feel and the more mind bending elements. Nick Filardi on colors also helps establish a proper feel for the story.
I'm enjoying this series quite a bit and I hope some of the other Young Animal books can find use these books as a guide of how to incorporate psychedelic elements while balancing it with a solid story.
August 22, 2021
While this volume still has echoes of crossovers and continues the weirdness, I just don't find that it resonates the same way as some of the other titles in Young Animal. I can see why it belongs with the crew. I just don't care about Carson the same way I do about some of the others.
This felt like a Ditko done for the lols. Weirdness for weirdness sake. Still worth a read if you want to explore the whole imprint but if I had read this by itself, I would not have bothered. It isn't a bad book . I just want more from it.
This felt like a Ditko done for the lols. Weirdness for weirdness sake. Still worth a read if you want to explore the whole imprint but if I had read this by itself, I would not have bothered. It isn't a bad book . I just want more from it.
June 15, 2019
Reading Rivera's Cave Carson stories requires some flexibility & commitment. Even the characters are often confused; Chloe, in this volume, asks, "Why does it always feel like we got here halfway through the movie?" No Wild Dog in this one, but you do get Star Adam, who is essentially intergalactic Prince, so that's nice. Still the only comic that feels like you're taking drugs that I'm currently reading, and still just as quality as it ever was.
June 6, 2020
The follow up series to Cybernetic Eye takes Cave Carson and company into space.
We meet old friends, there's weird adventures and Cave is confronted with a loose end from his past.
Fun stuff, that hits a great balance of silver age meets trippy modern without getting dark and dreary.
Not sure how much more we'll be getting from the young animals imprint, but it's been one of DC's better experiments.
We meet old friends, there's weird adventures and Cave is confronted with a loose end from his past.
Fun stuff, that hits a great balance of silver age meets trippy modern without getting dark and dreary.
Not sure how much more we'll be getting from the young animals imprint, but it's been one of DC's better experiments.
March 11, 2019
The Young Animal Cave Carson series reminds me of Kim Possible a bit too much, though the emotional stories, swearing, and occasional nudity helps to take away that juvenile feeling. The colors and art are ridiculous and trippy, which also helps.
April 21, 2019
A psychedelic romp through the farthest reaches of
space is a fitting end to this series, but underneath all that is a heartfelt story of an imperfect man doing his best to save the things that matter to him. The hidden gem of Young Animal.
space is a fitting end to this series, but underneath all that is a heartfelt story of an imperfect man doing his best to save the things that matter to him. The hidden gem of Young Animal.
February 7, 2019
IMO this is the best volume of the modern Cave Carson run. Just adventures, a lot of psychedelics and the backstory we craved since #1. Cave shows his true self, here.
Old friends join.
Old friends join.
February 19, 2019
Yep, mindbending. Maybe I would have been more open to this tale if I had been drinking...or more likely heavily medicated.
I get what they are doing here, it's just not my thing.
I get what they are doing here, it's just not my thing.
April 24, 2019
I found the psychedelic weirdness rather tiresome this time out. Like there wasn’t enough story there to make it worth it.
January 7, 2022
Unfollowable.
July 13, 2025
Best thing about it was the backup story.
I wish the actual series was more that than the “haha I’m high on mushrooms” it ended up being.
I wish the actual series was more that than the “haha I’m high on mushrooms” it ended up being.
December 28, 2020
Contrary to some of the opinions out there, I actually found this Cave Carson storyline to be one of the most linear, cohesive volumes to date. This takes the core (pun intended) of the Cave Carson psychedelic geological world that is built out in the first two volumes, and expands it into a lot of fun and interesting sci-fi places and concepts. I loved the characters of Star Adam and Prince Elium, and the art, wit and world-building is great.
4/5 Sentient Space Jellyfish
4/5 Sentient Space Jellyfish
July 21, 2024
An excellent continuation and re-imagining of C-list character from DC Comics history. The stories are way out there, and the art beautifully takes it to a whole other place. I loved this series and its predecessor, "Cave Carson Has A Cybernetic Eye."
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