SR comics, we get music and movies every couple weeks so why not Options

[WeaverMount]

Transmat has it's own thread. So plug your favorite SR inspiring comic here!

[Rad]

Desolation Jones

Not so much setting wise, but it definitely has that dystopian, burnout, I-am-not-a-nice-guy-and-I-do-very-not-nice-things-for-a-living bit. Also he has a shady fixer and contacts with bioware.

Also, Athena kinda reminds me of SR, a little bit. You've got a "retired" greek goddess with an obvious cyberlimb fronting a punk band and trying to make a living in a burnout future.

[ Spoiler ]

It even ends with what could be considered a run on a megacorp.

[Jackstand]

I really like Cairo for something with more of a magical feel to it.

[Fabe]

I think a few people here will agree with me if I say "Transmetropolitan" makes a good Shadowrun style comic.

[PhishStyx]

Marsh Rocket started out pretty cool, but I haven't had time to look at it in a while.

[Rad]

Hmm, not quite a comic but the novel "Hard Wired" by Walter John Williams just screams Shadowrun. It's got riggers, datajacks, cybereyes, skillwires, megacorps, T-Bird jockeys, IC, fixers, corporate strike teams, and thor shots. All it's missing is the awakening.

[Blade]

[Obligatory plug about the webcomic in signature.]

[Stahlseele]

if you ignore the part where it is all set in space, then http://www.transstellar.llamaslap.com/ is pretty much spot on when it comes to a shadowrunny webcomic ^^
read:
http://www.transstellar.llamaslap.com/first.php
to
http://www.transstellar.llamaslap.com/latest.php

[Fuchs]

Ah, yes, Athena is a good SR-comic. I used to plant things from the comic into my SR campaign years ago.

[Chrysalis]

A few Shadowrun-like comics:

DMZ

Casanova

Martha Washington

Judge Dredd

Ronin

Sin City

And.. Marsh Rocket.

[Fuchs]

And of course:

Black Lagoon
Appleseed
Ghost in the Shell
Bubblegum Crisis (by Adam Warren)
Dirty Pair (by Adam Warren)

[Blade]

Fell: not Cyberpunk, no magic (but a few superstitions and myths), but a very good comic and a great inspiration for the Barrens.

[Wesley Street]

2020 Visions (Vertigo), Testament (Vertigo), Reloaded (Image), Red (Image), Elephantmen (Image), Nightly News (Image), Scars (Avatar), Dark Blue (Avatar), Angel Stomp Future (Avatar), Frank Miller's Robocop (Avatar), Generation Zero (DC Comics)

Can't believe no one has mentioned Watchmen yet! Alternate 1985 with future tech! Hey all you SR 1st ed fans! *Poke poke!*

[CanRay]

Rogue Trooper would make a great example of Desert Wars.

[martindv]

Really anything by Warren Ellis. The guy loves his tech, and even has an X-Man(girl) with a twitter account tying into his run on Astonishing, which he just took over from Joss Whedon. Speaking of which, there is a Serenity comic. One set between the series and the movie, now in trade, and the current mini which is set IIRC "between the rain drops".

Ed Brubaker's comic, Criminal, is awesome for many reasons. Jason Aaron's Scalped is best summed up as Criminal on an Indian reservation. Great for the NAN. Bettter for the Anglo reservations in the NAN.

Speaking of Cairo, the author of that comic just began a new comic called Air, which is pretty good.

There's a lot of great stuff. I'll try and think of some more.

[Wesley Street]

Warren Ellis also wrote a Starship Troopers prequel comic for Dark Horse before the first movie was released. Was actually quite good though the tone was more Aliens than Tora! Tora! Tora! meets THEM!

Ellis is weirdly obsessed with blue tooths and cell phones. And Suicide Girls. An entire issue of Ellis' Iron Man was Tony Stark talking about a new cell phone Stark Enterprises was releasing. Seriously. But I'll also recommend his recent Black Summer series with it's cyber/techno-enhanced super soldiers.

[martindv]

The funny thing is how those cell phones proved to be a useful plot point in Matt Fraction's Invincible Iron Man. The villain in the first arc, Zeke Stane, is also just badass.

Speaking of Iron Man and Warren Ellis (who, btw, is just obsessed. He loves tech. He's also a madman), Warren Ellis is responsible for Extremis, which is basically what Technomancers post-Unwired can become, and are in a way what they only wish they could be. Tony Stark post-Extremis (specifically in his own book(s)) is really the best depiction of a technomancer I've read so far.

[martindv]

This is a VG/comic book combo.

I don't know if you've seen it, but EA is releasing a game called Mirror's Edge about a "Runner"--a courier who does free running and crazy rooftop running and jumping shit. Official EA Trailer on YouTube.

Anyway, I was reading the DC solicitations for November last night, and it turns out that there will be a six-issue minieries tying into the game. I mention it because this would be an excellent presentation of how badass Mobility Adepts are/can be in Shadowrun. It's best explained by the trailer. Just wait until 50 seconds in. You'll see.

[Wesley Street]

Aw, I can't believe I forgot these because they are Shadowrun, minus the elves. Brian Wood wrote a self contained universe of books for AiT/PlanetLar that started with Channel Zero, which was about media in a corporate controlled near-future. Then came Channel Zero: Jennie One, The Couriers, The Couriers 2: Dirtbike Manifesto, The Couriers 3: The Ballad of Johnny Funwrecker, and Couscous Express. All of the characters are shadowrunners in every sense of the word.

[Rad]

Ah, yes, Athena is a good SR-comic. I used to plant things from the comic into my SR campaign years ago.

Wow, a fellow Athena fan--what are the chances? This wasn't exactly widely known.

I stubled across it in the used comic bin of my local shop. Apparently somebody sold their entire collection, except for the second to last issue. Bastards. I still haven't seen how that whole thing goes down, though I have the last issue so I know how it ends. Hopefully Dean get's his new site finished soon (and still has reprints availible for order) I'd love to finally get my hands on issue 13.

[Thirlen]

There is (was) a Shadowrun manga.
Some covers (under 'Images'):
http://www.geocities.com/TimesSquare/Chamb...072/srmnvbr.htm

Review:
http://www.ex.org/1.3/24-shadowrun.html

I could kill for it.

[Stahlseele]

*twitch twitch*
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SAUCE! NOW!

[It trolls!]

Try The Losers (2004 version). A crack team of spcialists using high-tech to infiltrate government facilities... what does that sound like?

[Bull]

*twitch twitch*
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SAUCE! NOW!

If I could go back and time and assasinate the guy who formed 4chan (All the *chan's, really), I would. *sigh*

Anyways, there was a company in the early 90's that had licensed Shadworun from FASA and had done a handful of products. I don;t know all the details, and it's possible there was more than one company, but the net result is there are a handful of very rare items that were only available in Japan, and go for a mint on eBay when they pop up.

There was a Sega CD game. A phone card (Which Adam Jury has one of, IIRC). A Tokyo Sourcebook for the RPG. And the Manga.

I've flipped through the manga (There was a set of these in the FASA offices. No clue if they made the transfer to Wizkids/Seattle, if they ended up with Rob, or what), and it was... Well, it was a Manga, and was in Japanese. It looked like what you would expect, a VERY manganized version of Shadowrun to the point where it was pretty unrecognizable (And looks like a lot of other Manga/Anime out there).

Tokyo also bore no relation to the "official" Tokyo, IIRC, and was only casually related to Shadowrun at all, it seemed. But again, don't speak japanese (Nor read it)m, so had to judge on pictures. So who knows. May have just been some crazy artists. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

Bull

[Blade]

Japan's setting in the Japanese Shadowrun was different from the canon Japan. I guess the Japanese didn't want to be depicted as the bad guys.

I don't know which setting the Sega CD game used, but even if it was manganized, it looked pretty Shadowrunny to me (and it even had TN and dice rolls showing on screen and control over the combat and magic pools, as far as rules went you couldn't get more RAW than that).