I'd include Enki Bilal's "Nikopol Trilogy", Frederik Peeter's "Aâma", and Brandon Graham's "Prophet". Also Judge Dredd is some classic cyberpunk for me.

Frank Miller's Ronin is pretty cyberpunk.

1:49: Akira 6:42: Ghost in the Shell 10:07: Shatter 14:24: Hard Boiled 17:24: Deathlok 21:05: Weapon X

Machine Man Mini series from the 80’s , Trimpe & BWS. And , American Flagg come to my mind.

I'd suggest The Metabarons from Jodorowsky and Gimenez (I've read them before The Incal so they're a little closer to my heart that way; had never read anything like it before that moment).

Transmetropolitan by Waren Ellis and Ronin by Frank Miller are two good picks.

@classicbandgeek

Жыл бұрын

I'm really surprised that Cartoonist Kayfabe still hasn't looked at any Transmetropolitan yet, equally surprised they didn't even give it an honorable mention in this video.

@MicBain

Жыл бұрын

Transmetropolitan 100%

@ekwah5821

Жыл бұрын

Love Transmetropolitan.

@destructoau7526

5 ай бұрын

Transmet is a must

@jays2551

5 ай бұрын

love transmetropolitan! that was my introduction to cyberpunk comics. that and tokyo ghost, which is another i highly recommend

The first 3 issues of Ghost Rider 2099, with Bachalo & Buckingham.

what I consider Cyberpunk comics not covered in the video: American Flagg(first comics), Battle Angel Alita(Viz), Cyberpunk 2077 comic(Dark Horse), Transmetropolitan(Vertigo)(possibly post cyberpunk). 2020 visions(Vertigo), Judge Dredd, Ronin(DC) Frank Miller, Ranxerox(Libertore), Rebel/Generation zero by Pepe moreno(yah its probably post Apocalypse but it has a cyberpunk feel to it), Batman Digital Justice.

@boardsomnis55

Жыл бұрын

Great list. Others I have, Appleseed, Blame/Noise (Tsutomu Nihei)

@AndrewAzon

Жыл бұрын

Great list, would add Tokyo Ghost (Image) to that as well

@tylerbrunton7696

Жыл бұрын

Battle Angel is my #1 for sure .

Battle Angel Alita was the first time I'd ever heard the term Cyber Punk and always associated the genre with that series. It's an incredible work, I highly recommend it.

@DennisCNolasco

Жыл бұрын

This!

@Sadlertime

Жыл бұрын

Third that!

"Il Pescatore" ("The Fisherman of Brooklyn" = my translation of the German title) by Rotundo & Barreiro - 1986 "DarkMinds" by Pat Lee & Adrian Tsang - Image 1998 "Dead or Alive - A Cyberpunk Western" by Tatjana & Ponticelli - Dark Horse 1998 "Hotwire - Requiem for the Dead" by Warren Ellis & Steve Pugh - Radical 2009(?) "Flourescent Black" by MF Wilson & Nathan Fox - Heavy Metal 2010

Couple of Cyberpunk books that immediately come to mind are Battle Angel Alita, or Gunnm in Japan and Deus Ex tie-in comics for couple of the most recent video games in that series.

The Warren Ellis run on DOOM 2099 is cyber, punk, satirical, and exquisitely bonkers. It's the closest America ever got to producing something in the vein of 2000 A.D.

I think the question of "where did cyberpunk start" can be seen as a kind of mix of the aesthetic influences and the style of storytelling. The aesthetics were definitely born between the 60's and 70's, because there was that mix occurring in the real world of utopian visions of space travel, computer-controlled systems, pharmaceutical advancements and brutalist architecture(e.g. the actual architecture of the Paris suburbs is often quoted as "future city" - lots of cities globally had skyscraper booms, built out metros and freeway systems) along with visible urban decay, social unrest, pollution, traffic, hedonism and a growing surveillance state. You can kind of see the latter half of directly addressing the social elements in the underground books, just without the futurism or the context of punk. The aesthetic components appeared more piecemeal since they were taking the interesting sci-fi ideas and injecting them into conventional stories - e.g. a western film, but with malfunctioning androids = Westworld. Superheros, but psychic mutants = X-Men. Everyone who saw those stories was influenced into exploring and extrapolating the literal consequences further, and I think it's in the blend of those two things and the extrapolation that cyberpunk really emerges. The storytelling conventions of cyberpunk really got established in the West with the appropriation of film noir into that aesthetic and more themes revolving around inequality - that's your Blade Runner, Neuromancer, etc. Akira is in the Japanese context, so rather than using film noir, it has a lot of post-war trauma themes - it's thinking a lot about people as weapons of war and what that means for them, while the Western context is a little more nihilistic and focused on whether anyone has any meaning. Japanese cyberpunk pairs well with Hayao Miyazaki's "pastoral nature vs industrial technology" themes that he started using with Future Boy Conan(1978), and when you combine those ideas with Akira you have the context for most of the Final Fantasy games in the 90's, where there are occasional cyber-y things but ultimately it's a fantasy story about brave heroes restoring natural balance to a world overrun with technology.

Awww. Was hoping Spider-Man 2099 would make it here. That one was very cyberpunk by early 90s standards.

@Therealmrmeow

Жыл бұрын

agree

@TonyTylerDraws

Жыл бұрын

Spider-Man 2099 and Batman Beyond were really at blending cyberpunk and superheroics

@NFLDude56

Жыл бұрын

They covered the first issue a few months ago. kzread.info/dash/bejne/l42E2Zmvl7XIpJM.html

The massive influence of The Long Tomorrow by O'Bannon / Moebius is incalculable. Should have been one of the segments in the original Heavy Metal film. On edit: There was a ton of great cyberpunk in the early Metal Hurlant/Heavy Metal from Druillet, Moebius, Caza, Bilal. Many of those artists and writers were heavily influenced by PDK, Ellison, etc.

@AleksandarBloom

Жыл бұрын

Ridley Scott and Rutger Hauer were very much aware of Bilal and others. William Gibson said something once, to paraphrase, those French guys were on to it years before anyone else.

@horrormike

Жыл бұрын

@@AleksandarBloom yes they were. Enki Bilal made a 2004 sci-fi film "Immortal" which has cyberpunk elements in it, focusing on eugenics and egyptian gods in the year 2095. Post-modern mega-city setting with vintage cars flying around on rails. Based upon stories from Metal Hurlant. Highly recommended.

@AleksandarBloom

Жыл бұрын

@@horrormike Yes! It's based on his, so called, Nikopol trilogy, which is one of the most highly regarded albums in Europe. First one I've ever bought in fact.

@horrormike

Жыл бұрын

@@AleksandarBloom that's the one. I'm going to get that film on blu-ray soon. It's a shame that it didn't get the recognition it deserves in the U.S. with so much crap being pumped out by Hollywood. Bilal should be making more films.

Tradd Moore does dope cyberpunk designs in the New World.

Battle Angel Alita is as cyber punk as it gets. It's so epic, it deserves a full episode of at least the first series arc. But then you won't even get to all the motor ball stuff so maybe you guys need to do a few episodes on Alita! That would be cool.

I'd add as runners up: from Warren Ellis City of Silence and Global Frequency for sure; the old Cyberpunk comics (iirc late 80s early 90s and predecessing part of the same franchise as the recent 2077 game and more); and also recall enjoying as a kid Heartbreakers from Dark Horse, but haven't reread it since enough to vouch for it as heavily as the others. Grew up on William Gibson, Shirow, and Akira so enjoyed this. Great picks and video! Would've picked the same except fully expected Frank Miller's Ronin at the end! Weapon X was a nice sleeper surprise though too. Oh yeah, and maybe OMAC and Machine Man!

@baginamonolog

2 ай бұрын

Revisiting this video and forgot to mention before Fluorescent Black from Nathan Fox

I would say Transmetropolitan by Warren Ellis and recently Night Hunters by Alexis Ziritt and Dave Baker and the original Machine Man miniseries from 1984 had some elements of Cyberpunk.

@yvesisevil

Жыл бұрын

100% agree with Transmetropolitan.

For me I always think of Naked Lunch as the first cyberpunk or at least the nova express trilogy so many terms and ideas that permeate the genre come from Burroughs

Legion of Super-Heroes "5 Years Later" by Keith Giffen and the Bierbaums is an underrated cyberpunk gem. Gorgeous weird and deeply influenced by the HEAVY METAL guys.

I love how the future was depicted in the 80s. We couldn’t capture that now if we tried

I’d say a lot of Brandon Graham’s work is cyberpunk, king city, multiple warheads and his reboot of prophet especially

This vid is right up my alley. Been in love with Cyberpunk as a genre before i even had a word for it. I've been making an as-yet unpublished CP comic for many years. I feel like my ideas will fall victim to the Kayfabe effect. I better get back to work on that book! Great episode!

My thesis film at school is going to be a soft cyberpunk future! This video couldn’t have come at a better time.

I was pretty blown away by Tony Takezaki's "Genocyber" when those early 90's Viz floppies came out. (Too bad it was abandoned after a few issues)

@baginamonolog

Жыл бұрын

Takezaki's "AD Police" was very nice!

Neuromancer was the definite cyber punk novel and was even partially adapted into a graphic novel

Shatter originally came out in colour. I ran a comic shop and we stocked it.

I’ve heard cyberpunk being explained as ‘high tech, low life’

There’s something about Judge Dredd that feels very cyberpunk to me. And a lot from 2000 A.D. for that matter

You guys need to check out BLAME!

Awesome video! I love Deathlok as well, think he is a great undeveloped concept.

Weapon X was a good pull for this, but for FULL ON Barry Smith cyberpunk, look for his Paradoxman in his Storyteller series.

It's not in the exact same vein as these but my first introduction to the Hacker/Punk aesthetic was the comic "Cyberpunk" from Innovation in 1989. I believe it was only two issues (with a Ken Steacy covers) then there was another short series called The Seraphim Files. Strange book for me when I was 13 but the concepts are strong and great visuals. Check it out.

Deathlok was inspired by the 6 Million Dollar Man, which was a big tv show back then exploring a cyborg superhero made by the government. He’s an astronaut who crashlands during reentry into earth’s atmosphere. The 6 Million Dollar Man also inspired Enki Bilal’s astronaut character from Metal Hurlant.

1-Eden:It’s an Endless World is not only a CyberPunk beauty, it’s with Berserk maybe the best manga made (no disrespect to the GOAT’s). It has 14 English volumes another 4 volumes in (German, Italian French or Japanese). 2- Battling Boy series (+ The Rise Of Aurora West) by Pope 3- Aster of Pan by Merwan 4- Biomega Tsutomo Nihei 5- Carbon & Silicon by Mathieu Bablet 6- Castle in the Stars 4 volumes in English and will continue 7- Deadenders by Brubaker 8- Dominion by Masamune 9- Edgeworld by C.Austen 10- Fear Agent by Remender 11- Girls Last Tour by Sukumizu (6 volumes) 12- Gung-Ho by Benjamin von Eckartsberg 13- Francois Schuiten's THE HOLLOW GROUNDS trilogy. 14- Heavenly Delusion by Masakazu Ishiguro 15- some of the Judge Dredd 16- King City by Brandon Graham 17- Frank Thorn’s Lann 18- Memories from the Civil War by Marazano (3 volumes) 19- Monolith by LRNZ 20- Negalyod God Network by V.Perriot 21- Old City Blues by Milonohiannis 22- Rocketeer by Waid 23- Rust by Lepp (3 vol) 24- Sandland by Akira Toriyama 25- Speed Grapher (2 in English 1 not translated) by Yusuke Kozaki 26- The Spire by Spurrier 27- The Wall by Alberti 28- Dave Dorman's Wasted Lands 29- Wasteland by Johnston (5 HC’s) 30- We Live by Inaki Miranda I know some are more apocalyptic than punk. I tried to stay away from Space Science Fiction (would have been much easier for me). Hope you can add one or two. Love your channel and love the variety!!!

Rogue Trooper by Dave Gibbons? Great video,guys!

On the Deathlok front, Marvel UK did a story called Digitek in their 90s attempt to do SF/superhero comics. Written by John Tomlinson and Andy Lanning, lovely painted art by Dermot Power. The titular character is a human merged with some sort of computer tech and effectively becomes a living computer program. Deathlok guests in about half the story and I remember it being a highlight of that Marvel UK era.

@markwhittington1070

Жыл бұрын

UK 90s comics in general are full of Cyberpunk. Half the Marvel UK line had something cyberpunk to it.

Channel Zero - Brian Wood The Surrogates - Robert Venditti and Brett Weldele Tokyo Ghost - Rick Remender and Sean Murphy Doktor Sleepless - Warren Ellis and Ivan Rodriguez

i love that as soon as you slap down the heavy metal books we can see some *possible* inspiration for otomo. the left heavy metal mag has the dude riding the flying creature with his arms folded, and we see tetsuo doing the same on his motorcycle. chillin, confident, cool as hell.

Old City Blues by Giannis Milonogiannis

One of your best videos ever. The Kojima love was nice too.

Tokyo Ghost! Rick Remender and Sean Murphy 🔥🔥🔥

Curious if you guys ever watched the Cyberpunk:Edgerunners anime that came out on nerflix a few months ago. I thought it was really good. Even if you're not familiar with the TTRPG or video game.

@subaz5555

Жыл бұрын

Agreed. Just finished it a couple of night ago and was very impressed. Total enjoyment. It REALLY took me back to the 80's

Love this one on Cyberpunk, I could get leaving out Dredd from a top five, on account of to the protagonist leaning more to the cop than the punk. A couple of obvious suggestions, Warren Ellis on Lazarus Churchyard and Grendel on some incarnations with Matt Wagner.

OMAC is cyberpunk tokusatsu by way of Captain America superhero comics. Super serum delivered by satellite biotech AI.

I just picked up a cool looking book from a series that I am unfamiliar with. It definitely looks like it would fit the description of *cyberpunk*. The series is called MegaCity 909. The art is absolutely fantastic. Maybe, someone is familiar with the story.

It's not a brilliant story, but Jae Lee's art on the Marvel Tech Deathlok series really sells the Cyberpunk aesthetic.

Battle Angel Alita is one of my cyberpunk favourites. Ghost Rider 2099 #1-12 is also something that I would recommend, after #13 it's much more of a miss than a hit for me.

@EARTHSPACENOISE

Жыл бұрын

But that great early Ashley Wood art though… that’s actually when I started on the book.

SUPER PATRIOT!(Dave Johnson), Battle Angel Alita, Tokyo Ghost, We 3.

What about Transmetropolitan, Cyberella, or any of the Helix books?

CyberRad by Continuity Comics comes to mind. Literally has Cyber in the name after all. Also, Battle Angel Alita, especially if you like Akira and Masamune Shirow's work. Also Spriggan could possibly be considered Cyberpunk adjacent in some ways. Ed If you are looking for an awesome cyberpunk game to stick on that playstation classic then I highly recommend the original Fear Effect game on ps1. Cyberpunk meets Chinese mysticism, it's hard to beat.

I'd like to see A review on Joseph Michael Linsner creator of DAWN in the near future. That guy was on A whole nother level.

Lots of 2000AD strips had Cyberpunk themes, and Car Warriors by Chuck Dixon and Steve Dillon was a kinda Cyberpunk/Mad Max Road Warrior mash up.

You are right ed. Neuromancer the first one, came out 1984 . Good call . Greetings

The Bqllad of Halo Jones. American Flagg.

holy shit, I've been trying to remember a specific anime I watched almost 20 years ago and kept having a brain fart. Just stumbled upon this and as soon as I saw Appleseed, it all clicked. what are the chances? thanks! lol

Tsutomu Nihei's BLAME lives through its intricate cyberpunk imagery, considering how much of that story is communicated through its visuals.

My fav cyberpunk right now has got to be Vaughn and Martin's PRIVATE EYE

A DIY tech aesthetic is a big part of cyberpunk, hence the comment in the video about cyber punk often having “lots of wires”.

Mike Saenz's early stuff made with analog materials appears in various copies of Epic, Marvels attempt at Heavy Metal...

Junction Jones and the Corduroy Conspiracy

Carbon + Silicon by Mathieu Bablet (Magnetic Press) has a lot of cyberpunk elements. And is freaking fantastic.

Please do a vid on Carla Speed Mcneil's Finder. Most criminally underrated sci-fi/cyberpunk/etc. comic of the last 30 years

american flagg has early vibes, pope's 100% is, um, 100% cyberpunk. junction true by ray fawkes and vince locke... deep cut here but seriously punk stuff. sado-masochism, transhumanism, gnarly tech, sex and violence. also shaky kane's deadline strips, in an abstract sort of way. big ups for some deathlok on the channel.

Not quite cyberpunk, but I’d love to see you guys dissect Yukito Kishiro’s Gunnm/Alita. It’s even topical considering the new Jim Cameron movie in theatres!

It's weird, I think I like cyberpunk but it has a restrictive set of rules to operate under. For that reason it feels like the easiest thing to create a lazy version of. Trying to think of other cyberpunk comics and all I can come up with is Digitek from Marvel UK (probably because of the Deathlok connection)

ah yes, shatter. that fueled my imagination back in the days when i saw the first part in tintin magazine

"Custer" by Carlos Trillo and Jordi Bernet.

@akmeda.7618

Жыл бұрын

Never heard of that one, thanks for highlighting it!

Alright guys listen, I’m a turbo manga fan and cyberpunk addict. Thank you for picking ghost in the shell. It is almost a philosophical text for us otaku. And don’t get it twisted I when I open up a page of akira I start crying I’m so awestruck. But ghost in the shell drives my soul, and it’s the reason I exist.

I'm going to join in on all the requests to do a spot on Battle Angel Alita, an amazing manga with an iconic and serviceable OAV anime that alongside Akira/Ghost In The Shell was a gateway into anime/manga for those that grew up in the pre internet 90's, what James Cameron/Rodriguez did to that movie was a crime against art.

There's an older manga puplished by dark horse after the success of Akira called "eden it's an endless world" that is some tough, gritty cyber punk. One of the cooler books I've ever scene with amazing concepts and story

ETC from Tim Conrad and Michael Davis from DC's Piranha Press, 1989.

I wouldn't consider Weapon X cyberpunk. BWS on Machine Man however...

@lorcannagle

Жыл бұрын

I reread the BWS Machine Man recently and it holds up incredibly well

@xFuzzyxPicklesx

Жыл бұрын

biopunk?

Brink is a great horror/cyberpunk book from 2000AD

RanXerox by Libetarore & Tamburini came before. The story is wild, has all the tropes of the genre and the art is astounding.

What about Transmetropolitan?

AD Police 2500 Hrs by Tony Takezaki is a great 80s manga, which is available as a bilingual english/japanese release

Transmetropolitan maybe some Heavy Liquid by Mr. Paul Pope

The ultimate cheat would be Judge Dredd Magazine and 2000AD. Tons of cyberpunk stories in those spanning decades. Some newer Cyberpunk stories I really enjoyee recently are E.X. Mag #1: Full Metal Dreamland and GLEEM. Both were put out by Peow Studio in the last couple years and were really good. As for manga, No Guns Life is a great cyberpunk noir story. I can't speak on the anime but the manga is fantastic.

"Hey man don't discard Willie Mays like that"

You guys ever read "intrazone" from brainstorm comics?

Marvel did begin to adapt Neuromancer in their Graphic Novel line, but the first volume (covering the first part of the novel) was all they published.

Please make updates on this. :) My vote goes to Empty Zone! More mainstream Age of Ultron and Blade runner 2019.

Also Babetool, by Gaitán & Taborda

I think Grey (Yoshogisa Tagami) is quite cyberpunk, as well as RanXerox...

I thought the first Cyberpunk novel was Shockwave Rider by John Brunner in 1975 or Alfred Bester's Connection from 1975?

Regarding recommendations: Hiroki Endo: "Eden - It's An Endless World!"

HAY DARROW...HOOK US UP WITH THE HARDBOILED ARTIST EDITION!

Do a follow up!

"Jake Thrash" from Barry Blair/ Aircel -- I think only the first two of three issues came out, in color --really, really gray with sickly green, but color -- and then there was a collection in b&w...but, heck, thinking back on it, ain't Thrash metal? Still very much a part of the hard living scumbags in floating cars gestalt, yo!

I was waiting for Ranxerox, but still a solid list my friends. Akira forever...

Pepe Moreno's "Batman Digital Justice"

Ranxerox is also a good one

Ranxerox is represented by Heavy Metal. So. You did get that one. 2000 AD should be dissected more. Very cyberpunk!

Juan Gimenez "The Fourth Power " nobody can do technology like Gimenez.

I'm currently working on a cyperpunk/deadpool crazy story of an biocyborg hitgirl whom was setup by her boss'/lover's wife to be terminated by the Yakuza he runs!

I would recommend Blame! and Transmetropolitain

ty bro

I have to think 2000AD has to be cyberpunk. Judge Dredd at the very least, which I just heard mentioned in the video as I'm typing, has most if not all of the elements. The overall tone of that, D.R. & Quinch, Nemesis the Warlock. They all seem to fit the aesthetic to me.