Tokyo Ghost, Image Comics (Remender, Murphy, Hollingsworth)

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I am super amped for this series and thought I would start a new topic! Rick Remender and Sean Murphy... that's a dynamic duo for sure! Matt Hollingsworth colors look fantastic as always!

Press release...

A new dystopian adventure series from Rick Remender where technology is an addiction

Bestselling writer Rick Remender (BLACK SCIENCE, DEADLY CLASS) and artist Sean Murphy (The Wake, Punk Rock Jesus) team up with colorist Matt Hollingsworth (Hawkeye, The Wake) for the new ongoing series TOKYO GHOST, coming to Image Comics in Summer 2015.

TOKYO GHOST welcomes readers to the isles of New Los Angeles, 2189. Humanity has become nothing more than a sea of consumers, ravenous and starving wolves, sick from toxic contamination, who have to borrow, beg, and steal for the funds to buy, buy, buy their next digital fix. Getting a thrill, a distraction from reality, is the only thing left to live for. Entertainment is the biggest industry, the drug everyone needs, and gangsters run it all. And who do these gangsters turn to when they need the "law" enforced? Led Dent and Debbie Decay, constables of the law, which is a nice way to say “brutal killing machines." The duo are about to be presented with an assignment that will force them out of the decay of LA and into the mysterious lost nation of Tokyo.

"Sean and Matt are two of the best artists in comics and the only two people who could realize the wondrous brutality and twisted romance of this story we've cooked up together,” said Remender. “It's some of the most fun I've had, it's equal parts depravity and beauty, violence and poetic reflection. It's unlike anything I've ever done. The only bad thing about Tokyo Ghost is that you have to wait a year to see it."

"Rick is one of the most impressive writers in comics—a masterful storyteller in both mainstream and independent comics,” said Murphy. “Nobody is attacking the industry quite like Rick is, and I'm thrilled to help him do it, especially with my trusted colorist Matt Hollingsworth by my side. Tokyo Ghost is a love letter to the sci fi action movies we grew up on, with a little bit of Kurosawa thrown in."

"Reading over the pitch for Tokyo Ghost, I had a big grin on my face imagining this world we would all be making together,” said Hollingsworth. “Hopefully you will enjoy it a tenth as much as we are enjoying creating it."

“Rick has been on a real roll since returning to Image last year, and it almost sounds like a slight to his other work to say Tokyo Ghost looks set to be his best new series yet,” added Eric Stephenson, Publisher at Image Comics. “Collaborating with talent as titanic as Sean Murphy makes this a real event, though, and I really can’t wait for everyone to get their hands on this one.”

Join them on their journey in TOKYO GHOST #1, coming to Image Comics in 2015.

Art work and coloring sample...

Quite the combo ! This is going to rock

September can't get here fast enough

Yes.... I saw some of the original art... looks sick!

I'm onboard!

Really enjoying Remender's writing in Low sign me up!

Seen the art as well. Pretty awesome stuff. That chopper DPS is my favorite!

Cover to issue 2.... those abs tho

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Add me to the on board list.

Been waiting for this book for a while. Hopefully it can wash away the bad taste that was left by The Wake... though I guess I shouldn't blame Murphy too much for that

Sean Murphy did a great pod cast recently where he talks a lot about the business of comics as his future plans for his books... he mentions possible doing a sequel to Punk Rock Jesus and maybe doing a Batman story with Scott Snyder. Lots of talk about Tokyo Ghost as well!!!

Podcast = "Open Panel" by SKTCHD.

Is it September yet?

For all the NYC residents... Sean Gordon Murphy is signing Tokyo Ghost #1 at Midtown comics Friday, September 18th @ 6:30pm.

Ah can anyone help me get one signed?

Next week!

Anyone read the first issue yet?

I will read anything with Remender, Murphy or Hollingsworth attached.

Give me all 3, and you've got the happiest camper out there.

Its at the bottom of my stack, saving it for right after Cap White.

Its really good folks, some of Murphy's best work, and he's by far one of my favorite current artists. Like a lot of Remender, this will be a bit of a slow burn, but already tons to hook you. I don't want to spoil a damn thing, go out and buy this book, its well worth the money.

Saving up my duckets to hopefully score my first Original Art ever, which will be from this series.

I agree. The art work is stellar and the story is thick and detailed, you get so much in one issues it;s great!

Great book, can't wait for issue 2!

Oh, fine... I'll go back to the store and pick one up