I stumbled upon a list of the (supposedly) best cyberpunk comics. The list started out with the expected well-known manga like Ghost in the Shell and Akira, but then they listed Shatter and Hard-Boiled. And I’d never heard of either of them. So I’m curious if anyone here has read and would recommend either of these comics.

I guess Shatter was the first commercially available comic fully illustrated on a computer (rather than drawing by hand and scanning into a computer). So it was created on one of the first Apple computers, back when there were maybe 3 fonts to choose from. All that doesn’t really matter to me though, I only care if it has a good story and is cyberpunk.

Hard-Boiled, on the other hand, has Frank Miller’s name attached to it. So I just assume it’s a good, well-written story. My only question is how cyberpunk it is. I guess I could read it on Hoopla and find out for myself, but I’d like to hear other people’s opinion on it before I dive in.

  • nelsnelson [comrade/them, love/loves]@hexbear.netEnglish
    5·
    3 months ago

    These look rad, and I will be trying to find copies now, so thank you. I used to play a lot of interactive fiction games, text only and images including, so I know I am gonna enjoy these from a medium and style perspective. There was this game called DeJaVu that was surprisingly immersive. Pretty good noir art.

    Whether those books you mentioned are good cyberpunk, IDK. Let us know what you think after you read them?

  • Rolando@lemmy.world
    4·
    3 months ago

    Hard Boiled is one of the few comic books I still own. It’s cyberpunk, but non-traditional. Go in without assumptions and just take it in.

  • CaptainTrips@lemmy.ca
    2·
    3 months ago

    I have read the entire Shatter series. It was the first comic made using a Mac, and it came out in the mid-1980s.

    It had some interesting things that we take for granted today, like the gig economy.

    Good stories, the art is good at first but they had a change in artist who was good, but not as good as the first artist (in my opinion).

    Shatter first appeared in the Jon Sable comic before it got its own dedicated comic (issues 25 - 30).

    Wikipedia article about Shatter.