We take a look at this week’s cyberpunk and dystopian comic releases.

TITAN COMICS

TANK GIRL: BLUE HELMET #1

From the publisher –

A single stand-alone comic, this story was originally published in two parts in Deadline Magazine April/May 1992, almost 35 years ago. Featuring Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, and The Hairy Banana Bunch. Read the whole stupid damned story in one gulp! Idea for losing your trunks around the pool this summer!

The iconic Tank Girl, a heavy smoking heroine travelling around a post-apocalyptic Australia, in a customised tank. Often seen accompanied by mutant kangeroos. Tank Girl is a punk-inspired British comic series, so you can expect irreverent comedy and surrealism.

DARK HORSE

NANO #2

From the publisher –

Fleeing the burning wreckage of her home, a young Sana hides out where no one would look for a ten-year-old girl: An all-boys martial arts dojo. As San, she trains from sunrise to sunset, hoping she can stay hidden from those that are hunting her. Can she keep her secret as the powers she’s being chased for grow? And what twists and turns will she take before she ends up in Nano?

NANO is a new, 3 issue comic series. Nano is a mega-city run on prison labor and roiling from blackouts, run by the shady Nanocorp. the first issue saw an older Sana working undercover as a PE teacher, playing the role of wife to her long-time The Order comrade Lukas, as he worked to infiltrate Nanocorp. When that op started to go sideways, Sana couldn’t help but get involved.

REBELLION

2000 AD #2499

From the publisher –

Call me The Mighty Tharg, the galactic godhead at the helm of this awe-inspiring SF anthology!

Here we are, Terrans, at the end of the current run of stories, and inside you’ll find the ghafflebette double-length final instalments of both Judge Dredd: The Oubliette and Brink: The Call of the Void, joined by the third of my ABC Future Shocks, courtesy of the Lovegrove & Marshall droids.

It’s been quite the run for the last few months, and, of course, I’m eager to hear what you Squaxx thought of these epic series now they’ve come to a close — put your thoughts together and fire off a missive to input@2000ADonline.com!

But if you believed I’d be giving my Command Module creator-meks some time off after such epic Thrill-delivery then you just don’t know this Betelgeusian taskmaster. For next week we launch into a whole new line-up of scrotnig stories in the milestone Prog 2500!

Inside this circuit-shattering 48-pager, you’ll find the start of another major Dredd arc, The New Future, Rob Williams, Arthur Wyatt & Henry Flint’s follow-up to A Better World, plus new Durham Red, Azimuth, Herne & Shuck and much more!

2000 AD is a British science fiction comic book, which has been publishing for nearly 50 years 1977, famed for its dark British humour, and satirical and subversive stories. The jewel in the crown is Judge Dredd, a dystopian cyberpunk icon, whilst The Fall of Deadworld is a kind of an alternative history prequel series about Judge Dredd enemy Judge Death. Meanwhile Mega-City 2099 stories serve as a more traditional prequel.

REKCAH COMICS

THE FUTURE IS ****** #17

From the publisher –

THE FIGHT FOR WHEELER’S SOUL RAGES ON! Wheeler is at the mercy of the Psychopomp, an AI evolved into god-like status. How can Black Mountain, a team of lowly mortals, ever hope to fight back? HUMANITY FIGHTS BACK THE WAY ONLY HUMANS CAN–TWO FISTS AT A TIME!

The Future is… comic series attempts to tell stories in a plausible future, extrapolated from where we currently sit. It follows Black Mountain, a white hat team of hackers, as they struggle to prevail against the ruling powers, in a comic created by real cybersecurity experts. As a bonus, each issue will contain a clue that can be used to decrypt the ****** of the title.

INDEPENDENT

ASHES OVER NEON #1

From the publisher –

Sera is a victim of her own success. She then meets Dante, someone who refuses to bend the knee, and gives Sera the gift of existential catastrophe that she must face herself and remember her past before accepting another soul selling corporate promotion. What’s more important? Giving your fate to a machine? Or deciding your own destiny?

Ashes Over Neon is currently funding on Kickstarter, and it is billed as a cyberpunk drama comic book about the crossroads of destiny and fate including diegetic music. There are several issues already in the works, and this first issue shows the main character’s origin, and how she ended up meeting the band at the heart of the series.

You can check out the Kickstarter campaign, and find out about the available tiers on the Kickstarter page here – https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/ashesoverneon/ashes-over-neon-in-the-gutter-the-origin-story-book-0

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