I was surprised by this, too.

Not for nothing, but DC HAS to know that a lot of their titles are only going to last a few months, particularly those featuring characters with very little following.
Perhaps DC want to make sure that doesn’t happen to Cyborg, instead taking the time to build him up to the point where he can actually sustain his own title.

I think it should be noted more new series will be announced for October. So, I guess, we have to wait and see.

Cyborg has strong potential for getting an ongoing series of his own, but it has to be pulled off proberly and dc seem to be doing that by placing him on the new jla, thus, building up his already strong popularity. Now all they need to do is give martian manhunter his own ongoing in the future.

I thought I read that Justice League and Action Comics take place at the dawn of superheroes so how could cyborg have history with the titans?

I would have prefered Steel or Mister Terrific then Cyborg not to down play his character but i picture the 3rd smartest man in the world to start the JLA rather than a mecha man/teen i know he’s around drakes age but him being america greatest hero for no explained (from what i’ve read) reason seems like they just show horned him in. But i guess we’ll have to see how it turns out till the reboot of the revamp… yes

Being that CYBORG is an actual word, there isn’t much you can do to trademark it (the character itself, a whole other thing). They’d end up calling a solo series something along the line of “The Power of Cyborg”, or something along those lines.

That being said, Vic Stone/Cyborg is being used as a “diversity” character to add much needed “color” to the JLA roster. Unfortunately, he exists in a world where his “power” (ie- of having cybernetic implants to give him extra strength) don’t really give him a “leg up” *cough* on other characters with actual super powers. As powerful as the character actually is, he’s overshadowed strength-wise even by AQUAMAN – so instead of dumping him, we bury him into being “tech” guy/assistant.

I was also very surprised that Vic didnt get his own comic, especially considering all the positive talk he received from the DC higher ups and the play he seems to be getting in Flashpoint. I thought he was shoe in for a title, but I have to hope that his is one that they plan to announce for launch in October.

really, does anyone else see that JLA image with Cyborg and automatically think “token black guy”? he’s out of place enough just because he was never a founding JLA member (and most people never really thought he belonged there anyway). i think it’s kind of silly that DC is trying to shoe-horn him into the JLA (apparently at the loss of his Titans history, which actually was relevant, groundbreaking integration), and giving him his own series would have been overkill, since they have yet to convince anybody he’s that important to the DCU.

Vic is interesting because he’s one of DC’s last Bronze Age Icons. Cyborg was in Superfriends. He has an easy hook to remember. He is visually interesting. He’s one of the few modern-age heroes that stands for technology in a way that is different than, say, Iron Man’s suit of armor. He also had a hit cartoon with the rest of the Titans.

Steel (aka John Henry Irons) is basically Iron Man. Mr. Terrific is basically Batman. But Cyborg is different because his power is internalized technology that makes him a freaky-looking guy. His technology is replacement technology, an extreme variation of Iron Man.

- l.k.

My thoughts are that, for right now, he’s at least in the JLA, whereas a lot of other characters getting solo books aren’t being featured anywhere else, so why take up a slot with a guy already being “covered.”

Of course, they could have done without a few of the Bat-titles and Green Lantern ones, but that’s just DC going with the easy money. But most of the solo titles have people not in a major team (again, outside of the now Big Five of WW, Supes, Batman, Flash and GL), so Cyborg may be getting his eventually.

As for Flashpoint, he SHOULD have had a mini or a one shot instead of yet another drawn out mini with Geoff’s pet Captain Cold or three books dealing with the Aquaman/Amazon War, but that’s, again, DC for you.

They kept talking about how important WW was around the time of Final Crisis and yet she get hardly any panel time and no mini, whereas every single other advertised character in DC Universe #0 did, even the Rogues.

Um, because cyborg is not a very interesting character, maybe because they have something major planned for hin in the rest of this story, because his powers are now completely fubar in this series.

When this Reboot fails, I don’t think even Teflon Dan Didio is going to survive the purge that will occur at DC amongst the higher-end officers.

Lots of “great” things have happened while he’s been at DC.

No indication of a clue to a central plan/strategy that will actually help DC at this point in time. And there’s been plenty of time to formulate something decent, something better than another turnback.

His stewardship days are numbered…

Every writer has their favorite second or third tier character. Meltzer, for example, loves Geo-Force who he added to the JLA during his run on that book. Johns loves Cyborg, so he’s adding him to the team.
Cyborg is not a well known character. Even among comic fans he’s probably a C level character at best. I suspect that are going to try to build him up during his JLA run and then hope he becomes popular enough for his own title down the line.

Was a Cyborg series mentioned at some point during the run up to DCnU?

Regardless of whether it was or wasn’t, when I saw Cyborg in the JLA preview art it almost immediately occurred to me, “This character should really be in a solo series. Why has this not already happened?!”

I don’t think enough effort has been made to make him emotionally interesting, even to the degree of a character like Cyclops who seems destined to be resigned to team books. Cyborg has a lot of potential, and even before DCnU or Flashpoints I saw him as a hero struggling to be on par with Superman level characters even though he had the potential to be. My thoughts on him was that he was a tragic figure who saw his potential as a curse and just wanted to be normal. That seems to be a somewhat standard take on him I just don’t feel it’s been explored that well. He’s also in dire need of an actual villain, not someone who he leeches off of the Teen Titans.

Cyborg could be to DC what Thing was to Marvel. They are both brooding ‘monster’ type characters, who are cursed and scarred on the outside, but heroic to a fault at their cores.

As far as villains are concerned, Vic doesn’t have to have an entire rogues gallery. There are tons of DC characters that have fallen to the wayside, or can be stripped down and rebuilt into viable threats. All it takes is one creative person to flip through their Who’s Who for that.

Honestly, I feel the quintessential Cyborg story was in the issue of Teen Titans that was basically, “A Day In The Life” for the characters. I’m not sure if Wolfman & Perez crafted it that way but it evokes the classic Thing story, “This Man… This Monster.”

The character has wonderful potential, but all the potential in the world doesn’t amount to a hill of beans if the creators are just phoning it in. It takes a love of character, and a vision for ways to make him grow.

I completely missed the fact that Cyborg wasn’t given his own book (as he should have), but hopefully this “Great Plan” of DC’s has factored giving the character more exposure to one day do exactly that. We’ll see.

I think Cyborg could be interesting if they play up the strong silent aspect of the character and let his actions do most of his talking. This characterization could even work better by emphasizing that his silence isn’t so much from brooding but by the equivalent of Batman sitting in front of dozens of monitors in the Batcave.

I dunno–I just think that would work for the character and keep him interesting. Kind of how Snake Eyes tended to be extremely interesting without having much of a characterization.

@GeorgeC: Man i really hope someone bloodies up your worthless neckbeard nose.