Most casual fans know about Cyborg through actor Ray Fisher’s portrayal in Zack Snyder’s DCEU films. Cyborg made his first live-action TV debut on a 2006 episode of Smallville. The character was also popular in the Teen Titans cartoon and the Titans and Doom Patrol streaming shows. However, most people don’t know that the character is almost 50 years old.
Most casual readers don’t appreciate that Victor Stone was a young black man who lost his humanity and blackness in a horrific science experiment. In recent decades, writers and artists have examined what it is like for Stone to entirely lose his humanity. Is Victor Stone a man or a machine? Does it matter?
