Ghost in the Shell: Global Neural Network
Author: Brenden Fletcher, Genevieve Valentine and Alex De Campi Series: The Ghost in the Shell
Four all-new stories take the cyberpunk classic The Ghost in the Shell to new frontiers in this full-color, hardcover collaboration between original creator Shirow Masamune and some of the world's most innovative comics writers and artists. Featuring stories by Max Gladstone & David Lopez, Alex de Campi & Khoi Pham, Brenden Fletcher & LRNZ, and Genevieve Valentine & Giannis Milonogiannis, with illustrations by Becky Cloonan and more.
The Ghost in the Shell, one of the most revered manga of all time, unleash top Western comics artists in four all-new stories on human identity.
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Four all-new stories take the cyberpunk classic The Ghost in the Shell to new frontiers in this full-color, hardcover collaboration between original creator Shirow Masamune and some of the world's most innovative comics writers and artists. Featuring stories by Max Gladstone & David Lopez, Alex de Campi & Khoi Pham, Brenden Fletcher & LRNZ, and Genevieve Valentine & Giannis Milonogiannis, with illustrations by Becky Cloonan and more.
The Ghost in the Shell, one of the most revered manga of all time, unleash top Western comics artists in four all-new stories on human identity.
Description
A crimelord exploits prisoners of war to run a remotely-controlled global strike force, and the investigation reunites Kusanagi with an old friend and pits them both against Chinese security forces. A family see their dead daughter on television, except she looks 15 years younger than she did when she died. The infiltration of anti-cyberization cult calls for Section 9's most "human" members to abandon the support of their enhanced colleagues and do things the old-fashioned way. The stories in Global Neural Network bring a global, 21st-century persepctive 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.
Critic 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 peop≤ 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”
"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
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