The Ghost in the Shell: Global Neural Network
Description
This historic collaboration with legendary creator Shirow Masamune based on the classic manga features four all-new stories in a beautiful, full-color, 160-page hardcover, by some of the world's most innovative comics writers and artists, plus a cover by the acclaimed Dustin Nguyen (Descender) and pinup illustration by Becky Cloonan. Ages 16+ A covert mission in Shanghai reunites Kusanagi with a wartime rival amid shifting loyalties. The infiltration of an anti-cyberization cult calls for Section 9's most "human" members to do things the old-fashioned way. A deep dive into the mind of a criminal forces Kusanagi to question the nature of imagination - and her own identity. The stories in Global Neural Network bring a 21st-century perspective to its questions of human identity and the border between mind and machine that made The Ghost in the Shell one of the most revered manga of all time, and unleash top Western comics artists on eye-popping action scenes starring Kusanagi, Batou, Togusa, Aramaki, and all the members of Section 9! Original stories by: - Alex de Campi (Dracula Motherf*cker) & Giannis Milonogiannis (Prophet)
- Brenden Fletcher (Gotham Academy, Motor Crush) & LRNZ (Golem)
- Genevieve Valentine (Mechanique, Icon), & Brent Schoonover (The Astonishing Ant-Man)
- Max Gladstone (the Craft Sequence) & David López (All-New Wolverine)
Product Details
Price
$29.99
$27.89
Publisher
Kodansha Comics
Publish Date
October 16, 2018
Pages
160
Dimensions
6.7 X 10.3 X 0.5 inches | 1.1 pounds
Language
English
Type
Hardcover
EAN/UPC
9781632366030
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About the Author
Alex de Campi writes comics. She is best known for her critically-acclaimed teen survival thriller NO MERCY and the groundbreaking, digital-native comic VALENTINE. Her bestselling, criticially-acclaimed comics and graphic novels TWISTED ROMANCE with various artists, MAYDAY with Tony Parker, NO MERCY with Carla Speed McNeil, DRACULA MOTHERF**KER and PARASOCIAL with Erica Henderson, BAD KARMA with Ryan Howe, and SCRAPPER with Cliff Bleszinski and Sandy Jarrell are all published by Image Comics. She was nominated for an Eisner for her first comic work, Smoke, and it's all been downhill from there. Alex also directs music videos, and has worked with acts as diverse as Grand Duchy (Frank Black / Violet Clark), Joan As Police Woman, and Amanda Palmer to the retro-fabulous Puppini Sisters. Alex's background is a three-whisky conversation and involves several continents. She is a single mother of an awesome daughter; they live in the Stephen Kingdom (Downeast Maine) with two dogs. She has an opinion on nearly everything. You can peruse them, along with stupid photos and memes, at @alexdecampi on most social media.
Reviews
"This book is a treasure... the most interesting that the franchise has been in what feels like a decade." -Paste "Hits all the familiar beats --hard-boiled dialogue, big action set-pieces, and fully grounded, gritty science fiction elements -- but does so with style and real ingenuity... Oh my yes." -NPR
"Every story in the anthology really grabbed onto one or more aspects of the original and ran with it. Issues of access to information, healthcare, safety; the meaning of identity in a world were you can be - and are - multiple people; the meaning of borders, of ageing, of family all were highlighted in extremely smart ways... Damned good." -Erica Friedman, Okazu
"Very satisfying! You don't need to know anything about Ghost in the Shell to enjoy this!" -Comics Beat "Required reading." -Paste Magazine "A must." -Multiversity Comics
"Every story in the anthology really grabbed onto one or more aspects of the original and ran with it. Issues of access to information, healthcare, safety; the meaning of identity in a world were you can be - and are - multiple people; the meaning of borders, of ageing, of family all were highlighted in extremely smart ways... Damned good." -Erica Friedman, Okazu
"Very satisfying! You don't need to know anything about Ghost in the Shell to enjoy this!" -Comics Beat "Required reading." -Paste Magazine "A must." -Multiversity Comics
