Why are there no cyberpunk comics Sup Forums?
Why are there no cyberpunk comics Sup Forums?
Parker Taylor
Zachary Campbell
Because western comics only make superhero comics.
Zachary Russell
But that's completely false?
Wyatt Smith
Why there is no cyberpunk anything? There are not a lot of books, movies, video games about it as well. There are a few, but really not that many
Robert Foster
I... I never realized that and now I want some cyberpunk shit
Jose Bailey
We're living in it. Only the aesthetics have changed.
I suggest the move The Circle for that.
Aiden Campbell
There's quite a lot of cyberpunk material in the realm of movies and literature, but only a handful of comics. I mean, manga has more cyberpunk material.
Josiah Scott
>Only the aesthetics have changed.
You mean now instead of cool grimey neon its obnoxiously bright and bleak whitness and apple tier curves and fragility in technology now?
Jose Rogers
Well there was marvel 99 and batman beyond, so there was something
Bentley Ramirez
Technology moves too fast.
5 years ago a communicator watch was still the stuff of fiction.
Gavin Price
Because 2015 was 4 years ago
Christopher Roberts
Yes
Gabriel Stewart
They do exist. Just not in the US market.
Easton Lee
Mind sharing then? Thanks to the nature of the internet, I can purchase or find these things, even if they're not in the US.
Adrian Cooper
There are shit-tons, what are you faggots on about? Especially if you mean generic futuristic/robot shit, which is what most people call steampunk.
bdtheque.com
senscritique.com
James Morgan
>or find these things
Nobody's stopping you, son.
Ghost in The Shell
Ergo Proxy
Denno Coil
Wolf's Rain
Casshern Sins
Texhnolyze
Blame!
Noise
Abara
Biomega
Battle Angel Alita
Eden It's An Endless World
Natural City
Avalon
Cypher
Eden Log
Altered Carbon
Isaac Gray
all that manga
Carson Diaz
>includes some aBe
>forgets SEL
wew laddy
Nolan Kelly
And animu. I would definitely recommend the first movie and SAC over the manga for Gits.
Wyatt Adams
But I'm specifically asking about Sup Forums related material, not Sup Forums, and I've seen/read a majority of your list.
Jack Scott
I figured that and Akira are too popular to list. Then again, so is Gits...
Zachary Gray
But you responded to this
Oliver Bennett
Ah, yes, only the US and Japan have picture books.
Hunter Smith
Bruh
Ryan Myers
transmetropolitan
the filth
age of apocalypse
aliens comics were pretty cyberpunk
Adrian Smith
Because cyberpunk is actually pretty limited and boring, and its potential has pretty much been exhausted since its big days in the 90s.
Once you've been through a couple series, you get the whole ideas and polemics about transhumanism, invasive technology and somehow nobody has managed to push the subjects any firether for nearly 30 years.
Caleb Ross
>pretty limited
Not really. More than anything cyberpunk is an aesthetic, it's when you create a world of high tech and low life. It's not really about the hacking and corporations though they're usually present because of the logical conclusion of such a setting where some people are filthy rich and others are poorer than poor.
Dominic Phillips
It's literally just a setting. You're confusing setting for genre, although dip-shits have made them indistinguishable. So in technical parlance you're 'correct'.
Genre is the source of themes. Setting is the source of aesthetic. For example you can set a story about technology in a high-fantasy setting and its themes will mostly survive albiet with different analogies.
Cyberpunk is a setting that is heavily associated with a particular brand of cynical dystopian genre writing. Beyond that association it isn't limite in the least, it cannot be, it's a setting- thematic limits are the genre's issue.
Adrian Sullivan
you forget Cyber city oedo 808 and Armitage 3
Owen Scott
>Implying there are no cyberpunk comics just to rouse a few examples
This is a recommend thread, isn't it? You can just ask for recommendations here this isn't Sup Forums.
Brayden Morales
You say that like it's a good thing. Sup Forums might have fallen but it held out longer than Sup Forums. Years and years longer.
Blake Gonzalez
yeah that's kinda on me, I see things more in terms of genre and caracteristics rather than esthetics.
But I do think it's pretty legitimate when it comes to cyberpunk considering how much the visuals themselves evolved. Transmetropolitan looks absolutely nothing like the codes now tied to cyberpunk but it was still a pretty major work in the genre. Visual caracteristics are necesarily volatile and will change based on trends and such things, genres retain their core identity despite changes in form.
Henry Ramirez
Because you americans don't fucking read it
Owen Harris
How about cyberpunk IN SPESS
Samuel Lopez
Cyberpunk originally IS a genre, with specific themes attached to it. You're thinking of "the future, with robotization". That's a setting.
It's a common confusion.
Dominic Long
genres are mere shackles if you think too much about them.
Jason Powell
When it comes to creation yes, absolutely. That's an open door to phone things in and go formulaic.
When it comes to using them for classification or discussion of trends within an artform, not at all, they are arguably one of your few compasses.
Jayden Jones
>it was originally a genre
Sorry m8, no. Book genre's are much smarter than music genres where everyfucking person can make their own and pretend it's a thing.
Genre are mechanical and thematic. Tell me how Cyber punk could possibly be considered its own genre instead of simply being a dystopian setting?
Caleb Gomez
soooooooooooooooo there're almost no western cyberpunk comics
we gotta endlessly keep producing only capeshit comics and sjw ones and some vague artsy indies
pathetic
Brody Hughes
Why does nobody read Judge Dredd? It's literally the best cyberpunk comic of all time. It's been going for 41 years. It's been around longer than the fucking term "Cyberpunk" was even coined.
Jayden Edwards
Look bruv if you want to go full terminology then there are no genres within comic books because the litterary genres are as follow :
>dramatic/theatral
>poetic
>romanesque
>polemic/argumentative
>graphic (which technically contains all comic books)
>and maybe a few others I forgot because fuck it's been a long time
And then you have currents and movements, registers, tonalities.
Cameron Lopez
>Tell me how Cyber punk could possibly be considered its own genre instead of simply being a dystopian setting?
By having re-occuring themes, what you specifically pointed out as existing in cyberpunk. Specifically de-humanization through technology.
You should try to read up on what you're arguing about, literally everyone defines cyberpunk as a genre with specific themes except retarded nerds on message boards who just like cyborgs and pretty colors.
Landon Harris
>s-shut up nerd everyone says so
It's a setting because you can transplant any theme or structure you like into it.
Mason Sanders
>compasses.
isn't entertainment supposed to be escapism?
Lucas Edwards
Because it's trash.
Dominic Collins
To an extent yes it is. But discussion and criticism of art is a different thing.
Samuel Ward
I implore you to take that comment back.
Anthony Phillips
Yeah but recs didn't kill us.
Live action movie adaptations did.
Andrew Brooks
tokyo ghost is really good but Im not sure if its technically cyberpunk
Jeremiah Foster
Is that the one with the robot samurai who rides a motorcycle?
Xavier Bennett
Chase Lopez
Isaac Davis
Ian Campbell
Eli Flores
I would say Dream Police is Cyberpunky. Fantastic art too.
Elijah Butler
"Once Saenz had done that, he started from scratch on the art using a MacPlus computer and the MacPaint program. The system he used had 1MB of RAM, a built-in floppy disk drive as well as an external floppy disk drive. Saenz had to use the Mac’s mouse to create the art, as they had no scanner to capture drawn art. He had to work on each page in sections as the Mac could only display portions of a page at a time. Saenz used the Mac to do all the lettering. Then, after the art was created, it was printed using an ImageWriter dot-matrix printer. This art was then colored in the traditional way, as the Macintosh was strictly a black-and-white machine at the time, and then photographed like traditional comic art would be."
Parker Anderson
I remember reading one years ago, it was french i think, in a city in which it never stops raining, it was about bounty hunter (like most of them), can't remember the name tho, any one recalls anything?
Asher Walker
I think you're referring to Moebius.
Elijah Nguyen
There's drek-tons of /cyb/ comics, chummer. Off the top of my head you have Transmetropolitan, Ronin, Hard Boiled, the Blade Runner comic, the Neuromancer graphic novel and Shatter. You even have webcomics like Drugs & Wires and The Outriders. Comics with elements of /cyb/ include Judge Dredd and Tank Girl.
Frag those things, though. Where's my Shadowrun comic, you fraggin' bakebrains?!
Thomas Flores
Fuck this, i need SR comic
Noah Sanchez
Nope, but i've found this, it's pic related, don't remember how good it is tho
Benjamin Fisher
Off-topic. Fuck off.
Logan Moore
>Hey guys, did this particular setting exist in comic books and if so, why is so under utilized in comics?
>Off topic
John Bennett
In what possible way?
Ian Bailey
Damn this looks cool. Too bad I don't have the time or skill to learn french.
Camden Jackson
>Shadowrun comic
Fuck yes. In fact, why aren't there long running comics of several RPGs, the settings seem perfect for those kind of adaptations.
A comic in the Eclipse Phase setting could be awesome.
Camden Hill
If by any chance you're polish i found the first issue translated
Cameron Brown
Nah, I'm not. But thx anyway.
Landon Walker
Bump.
Luis Jones
The real reason why it's not such an active market is that Cyber-punk is just really hard to draw honestly, so even if somewhere where to have an idea for it they'd have to vut corners on the stetting to go easy on the artist or expect the schedule to be a huge mess full of delays.
Easton Peterson
Old City Blues
Samuel Peterson
Do it as a standalone graphic novel and not a monthly issue.
Nicholas Hughes
I struggle to differentiate cyberpunk with science fantasy/space fantasy
Is it merely the more common inclusion of robot stuff or cybernetic costumes?
Andrew Ross
>Is it merely the more common inclusion of robot stuff or cybernetic costumes?
Four words, chummer: "high tech, low life." Cyberpunk is all about showing us how advanced technology won't immediately improve our lives, that human nature will lead us to do fucked up shit with it. All the drek about megacorps, rain and neon lights is secondary.
Think about the most advanced technologies that the average person can have right now. Next, think about all the crimes that person can commit with those technologies. That's cyberpunk.
"The street finds its own uses for things." - William Gibson.
Also, think about the ubiquity of modern technology. Think about how easy it is for even the poorest among us to get a laptop, a smartphone and an internet connection. They're instantly connected to the rest of the world, free to do whatever they want (provided they don't leave a data trail for any three-letter agencies to follow). That's also cyberpunk.
Ryder Flores
Good stuff, thanks.
Joshua Cook
>recommending Ergo "literally copypasted a page on a topic from an intro philosophy book in place of dialogue" Proxy
Ian Baker
Null sweat. So many people buy into the soykaf about cyberpunk being just rain and neon. It's a good aesthetic but it has very little to do with cyberpunk on the outset.
Gabriel Brown
nawlz.com
Connor Wilson
But that's wrong you retard. Again you're just thinking of "the tech advanced future".
Christian Wilson
>forgetting Blade Runner, Blade Runner 2049, and the anime prequel to the new movie
Angel Bennett
What exactly IS cyberpunk?
In a potential comic thing that I've been trying to create for a long time, I've ended up developing a cyberpunk setting, and an overarching plot, about the equivalent of a tv show season in length, that centers around some cyberpunk themes in that setting, such as a mega-corporation that's running the city.
But, like, I don't really know much about cyberpunk outside of the visual aesthetic. I've tried doing some research on it, but I still don't fully "get it".
Christopher Gomez
We WOULD be living in it if the fucking 50s had gotten its shit together. But nooo, we're living in the fucked up universe where mega corps have already taken everything over but gene augmentation just gives you super cancer and cybernetics are shitty and your body rejects them.
Hudson Martinez
We didn't even get any fucking super villains out of it. So fucking salty, you have no idea.
Jeremiah Mitchell
Does Southern Cross count?
Chase Bennett
What is the Matrix
What is Ghost in the Shell
What is literally thousands of other edgelord favourites
Lincoln Carter
You might want to also ask Lainchain about Sup Forums cyber punk. They breathe and shit post all there is to know with cyber punk.
Dylan Robinson
Nigga, if you want recommendations just ask, don't come around here talking that casual crap
Alexander Walker
arisuchan.jp is better.
Carter Wilson
No
Easton Lewis
How so?
Colton Jenkins
Honestly, I just like the site design and administration better.
Dominic Carter
Why would you even say that name here. Sup Forums is a steaming shit pile and that site already has issues with new blood being cancerous. Fucking hell.
>my shitposts aren't as heavily scrutinised
Case in point.
Lets move on.
Nicholas Murphy
See and read Neuromancer.
Dylan Ortiz
Multiple Warheads might be my favorite comic.
The type of setting,characters and art style I've always dreamed of.
Luke Smith
I'm replying a day late just to call you a weenie.
Caleb Bell
Judge Dredd,Tranmetropolitan/GitS?
Kayden Turner
>I suggest the move The Circle
While I like the movie how is it cyberpunk?
Logan Perez
Nah, if the fifties got it's act together we would have had the WORLD OF TOMORROW. With Spess colonies and robots and superheros, but NO. We get this bullshit.
Liam Davis
Here's 102 cyberpunk comics to keep you occupied for a bit.
Jace White
>Thinking Blade Runner 2049 was a good movie
It had great visuals but let's not pretend that it doesn't suck ass compared to the original.