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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.

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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
QUOTE (Fuchs @ Aug 25 2008, 01:36 AM) *
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*
ZOMGWTFBBQ? eek.gif love.gif eek.gif
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
QUOTE (Stahlseele @ Aug 26 2008, 05:22 PM) *
*twitch twitch*
ZOMGWTFBBQ? eek.gif love.gif eek.gif
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. 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).
DV8
QUOTE (Bull @ Aug 27 2008, 09:58 AM) *
There was a Sega CD game.

I got my hands on the ROM, but it was unplayable for me, since, well, I don't speak or read Japanese.
Fuchs
QUOTE (Rad @ Aug 26 2008, 11:22 PM) *
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.


I just have the two trade paperbacks, with the complete story (as far as I know).
Chrysalis
Could as well Shadowrun:

American Flagg
ABC warriors
Ronin
Coming to Light (CIA history)
Wesley Street
If that Shadowrun-but-not-really manga interests anyone, there's always the Silent Mobius series from Viz. Magic plus cyberware in a cyberpunk future. Can't do any better than that though some of the visuals seem to be directly lifted from Blade Runner.
Jackstand
So?
Wesley Street
Okay, that was HILARIOUS! I've never seen nor played the old SR SNES game. biggrin.gif
Blade
Bilal's Nikopol trilogy and Hatzfeld tetralogy with beautiful drawings, some cyberpunk elements and some mystical ones too.
martindv
QUOTE (It trolls! @ Aug 27 2008, 03:12 AM) *
Try The Losers (2004 version). A crack team of spcialists using high-tech to infiltrate government facilities... what does that sound like?

Ah, yes. That was one. Also, Brian Reed's The Circle. Unfortunately, that run was cut short, but it was cool.

Transhuman's also a neat ongoing mini about a corporation doing gengeneering work.

Top Cow's been doing a project of one-shots called Pilot Season for two years now. An issue they released earlier this summer (soon to be "this summer) was Alibi. And god almighty it was awesome.

Point Blank and Sleeper are the tits for superhuman espionage. Greg Rucka's work on Checkmate (pre- and post-OMAC crisis) are awesome. Since he left a few months ago, it's gone to shit and will mercifully be killed at the end of the year. Suicide Squad is also a great companion to Checkmate. Amanda Waller is a million times better as a spymaster than Nick Fury will ever be, and is a great example of a truly masterful Ms. Johnson.

Really, anything Greg Rucka or Ed Brubaker have done has SR elements, like Rucka's Queen & Country (comics and later novels) or their collaboration on Gotham Central--which was even referenced in The Dark Knight.
Flatliner
kafka by Steven T. Seagle and Stefano Gaudiano, published by Active Images. It's not going to blow your mind, but it was a good read, nominated for an Eisner, and has a little paranoia, a little sci-fi, and a little conspiracy.
Fuchs
Spriggan (or, in its earlier translation, Striker): Shadow Ops, treason, cyberware, bioware, magic, shapeshifters, martial arts.

D-Live: A vehicle Adept's adventures doing special operations for money.

City Hunter and its sequel, Angel Heart: No cyberware, no magic, but crime and mercenaries, and lots of plots.

martindv
The entire issue of ALIBI, along with all of the other Pilot Season 2008 one-shots is available online. But since this is my favorite, fuck the others. Though Urban Myths might work for SR since it's Greek gods and other crap in modern day. They all have their little gimmicks to use with SR, though. Like the ghetto tactician in Genius.
Skip
The first ten or so issues of "Ghost Rider 2099". Basically the new Ghost Rider is a cyber-zombie. cyber.gif The best part is that if you can find them they should be cheap. "Doom 2099" also had a cyberpunk-type vibe.
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