Time for a list of amazing #scifi, specifically #Cyberpunk #comics, updated every few days until we run out of comics to chat about.
#mycyberpunkcomicloveslist 1: BaadFood
Hitting standard Cyberpunk tropes; a dystopian future, machines taking over human jobs, reactions to compensate, both legally & illegally, corporate warfare, ai, & transhumanism, refracted through the experience of kids stuck in a govt back to work scheme & a networked population.
We love it, but we're slightly biased :).
#mycyberpunkcomicloveslist 2: Metal Made Flesh
The story circles around a bald female cyborg merc, Izobel Vice, and a sprawling mass of the remains of humanity, living on the Hive World Tuaoni. The setting is lovely, and the printing of their collected book is awesome. It scratched the itch of the writer of BaadFood who was looking for something to read post-GITS.
#mycyberpunkcomicloveslist 3: Ghost In The Shell
Split across three volumes, with 1 & 1.5 thematically closer; Motoko Kusanagi, Batou and the rest of Public Security Section 9 chasing master hacker, The Puppet Master, followed by more case files in Vol 1.5. Vol 2: Man-Machine Interface has a different feel, still running/gunning, but more existential/more nudity. The art, ideas, and pacing of the stories are immense, and amongst the best #cyberpunk / #scifi related #comics, although very adult.
#mycyberpunkcomicloveslist 4: The Weatherman
A story about a man, his job working as a weatherman on weather controlled Mars, his dog, a mind wipe, a guy who wiped out biological life on Earth, Neuromancer-like orbitals, Standard Issue Big Guns, and cyber-enhanced good/bad guys. This was one of the best #cyberpunk influenced #scifi #comics out in the last few years, has gorgeous, fluid art... all arcs, and movement.
#mycyberpunkcomicloveslist 5: Blame!
In brief, a post-apocalyptic megalopolis teeming with crazed bio-machines, city-sized manufactory droids, a Man With No Name on a long walk, and a search which unpacks slowly over the course of the first couple of Tankobon volumes. This came out when The Matrix was in pre-prod, the visual style co-evolved to something visually similar, but remarkably unique, with the sheer scale and ideas making this a must read
#mycyberpunkcomicloveslist 6: FLCL.
A #scifi #robo #manga, reimagined from the #anime, #which was heavily influenced by #cyberpunk, with literal cyber-punks, nefarious aliens and machines, trying to take over the world. The artwork was full of speed lines, and energy, the bass-guitar-as-a-weapon wielding ant/protagonist jumps off the page, and Naota, the main boy is an anchor that everything evolves out of. Defo worth checking out, it veers away from the anime enough to make it stand out.
#mycyberpunkcomicloveslist 7: Limbo
A #magick #scifi neon-hardboiled detective joint, with reality pulsed by 80s bulbs, & the colour of old-school televisions tuned to dead channels (h/t Mr Gibson!) Wijngaard's art vomits scifi/horror machines & beings into an existence bound by low-tech magick users swirling around the protagonist, and reads like the fever dream from a Cronenberg flick. Watters and Wijngaard showed the chops they would bring to Home Sick Pilots a few years later.
BaadFood