#tokyo ghosts

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Tokyo Ghost

Sean continua andando em más companhias

Desde nosso primeiro enconto em Joe The Barbaria eu fiquei apaixonado por Sean Gordon Murphy. Passei a acompanhar o cara tanto reotroativamente como nos seus projetos futuros. É tudo tão bonito que eu achei que ia conseguir fazer vista grossa para os roteiros horrendos que ele materializava.

Quando ele mesmo escreve eu consegui segurar a onda. Nãoé bom. Tem coração, mas falta perícia. Mas quando ele se junta com incopetentes apelativos de marca maior... Coisas como The Wake e Chrononauts desgastaram muito nossa relação. Aí eu comecei a ler White Knight e estava ok. Tudo continuava tão bonito... Voltei para a retroatividade. Tokyo Ghosts. Sabe o que eu aprendi?

Que eu detesto Rick Remender.

Gostei do seu Uncanny X-Force. Mesmo. Li e guardei para reler. Desde então forcei seus Uncanny Avengers, o pesadelo chamado Avengers & X-Men: AXIS, o convoluto Low, Black Science, Seven to Eternity... São tantos clichês, tantos, tantos... As histórias se banham no lugar comum narrativo ao mesmo tempo que apresentam universos novos e cheios de potencial. É frustrante.

E aqui aconteceu outra vez. A história apresenta um futuro distópico de hiperconectividade onde uma mina e seu boylixo crackudo caçam o pior vilão já escrito e desenhado: DAVEY TRAUMA o hacker controlador de mentes. Aí eles vão para Tokyo dos sonhos onde não tem tecnologia e todo mundo vive numa eco-fantasia-zen-budista-bushido-sonho-molhado-da-fetichização- nipônica. Aí a Tokyo legal vira um casino gigante du mau porque a história precisa progredir e a mina vira um ninja com EMP embutido e o boylixo... chega. Cansei.

Leia. Ou não. Não leia. Supostamente tem uma mensagem sobre os vícios da modernidade: drogas, tecnologia, pornografia, reality shows e glorificação da violencia e banalização da morte. Esses vícios estão meio embolados entre o que era o fim do mundo quarenta anos atrás e o que é o fim do mundo hoje, mas quem se importa? A moto-tanque do Led Dent é muito maneira.

Sean. Amado. Se for para fazer desings faz só de carros e prédios. Você consegui estragar o batman. E por favor volta para o Grant Morrison. Você vai ser mais feliz. Rick... mulher pelada e cena de sexo não tornam suas história melhores, não estamos mais nos anos 80. Melhore.

[sparklermonthly]

Hello, Sparkler Fans! Happy Winter--it’s time for a sale!! 

All Sparkler ebooks (including Cherry Bomb!) are a whopping 35% off through December 30th!

Here’s all of our available ebooks, in one handy place, for those of you who want a last-minute gift or something to read on vacation!

Sale include today’s brand-new addition: the Tokyo Ghosts Cherry Bomb story “X-Mas”!

Enjoy!!

[tokyodemons]

Ayase paused. Jo’s phone buzzed again, and a new message flashed across the tiny screen.

Plz come! it said. Well save ur song for teh end.

A little more of the tension sifted out of Ayase, like an unconscious exhale. She pictured Kiyoshi trying to text in the disco-lit darkness of a karaoke room.

Jo didn’t seem to notice. He poked his half-eaten food with his chopsticks, his phone ignored by his side.

“Look,” he said, the word strangely nervous. “Even if I’d been awake, I would’ve turned them down. I just fell asleep while I was...” He trailed off, his mouth tightening.

Ayase stared at him, but he didn’t continue. He ran a hand through his hair.

She knew that look on his face. It matched the twitching of his fingers, the faintly red scratch marks on the skin around his beard. She remembered the ashtray in the living room, overflowing with cigarette butts.

She slowly lowered her bowl, wiping a few grains of rice from her mouth.

“What, Jo?”

He took a long breath. “I was...waiting for you,” he murmured at last. “I need your opinion on something.”

Tokyo Ghosts started this month in Sparkler. It’s time for angsty college life, hoo baby yeah. 

Awesome art by @tsulala (Rem)

[tokyodemons]

Looks like the first Tokyo Ghosts story will be running in the November issue of Sparkler (instead of October), but @tsulala aka Rem has already started designing Ayase and Jo at age 20.

SUCH A DELIGHT. And yes, that’s a wedding ring. (But many of you already knew about that.)

The Kado/Ayase/Sachi fanstory contest is running in the meantime, and it closes October 21st. Win prizes and get an audio version of the winning story!

[tokyodemons]

The faint rumble of a nearby car made Jo snap back to attention. A taxi had rolled up beside the curb, the driver peering out of his open window.

“Oda-san?” the man called.

Jo threw him a quick nod. In the few seconds it took Jo to shift his backpack and grab his duffle bag, the driver jumped out of the car, grabbed Jo’s suitcase, and rolled it off the curb. The man disappeared behind the rectangular mass of the popped trunk.

Jo turned to Ayase. He opened his mouth to say goodbye, but the words vanished when he saw her staring at him--her smile gone and a small crease forming in the skin between her eyes. She looked like she wanted to say something.

“...?”

An unreadable emotion fluttered across her face, closing her lips and twitching the fingers on one hand. She shuffled a step closer to him and slowly reached out.

Her hand landed on his shoulder.

Final chapter is out, and it’s immediately free. Enjoy. :)

For more:

Tokyo Ghosts (the next series, several years later) starts with a short story in October.

There are a bunch of Cherry Bomb (mature) shorts, now combined into one collection: ebook | paperback

Lianne is working on more Cherry Bomb shorts that take place between Demons and Ghosts, because of course she is.

Fandom has been especially awesome lately, including a lot of Tokyo Demons fanfiction on AO3.

If you want to make your own fanwork, may we suggest the current Tokyo Demons Fanstory Contest, which has prizes and a dramatic reading of the winner? Deadline extended until October 21st.

Thanks, everyone! We finished, woo! *pumps fist*

[tokyodemons]

Any idea as to when book 3 will be done?

After this week’s chapter (Chapter 6, Part 2), we’ve got four more updates.

FOUR MORE UPDATES!!

FOUR MORE UPDATES!!

In May 2016, this series will have been running for five years, so that’s around when we’ll be done. Appropriate!

But as we’ve said before, we’re planning to do two sequel series after Tokyo Demons is done (Tokyo Ghosts and Tokyo Angels) with all the same characters as they get older and less/more fucked up. So we should be fully done in like 2021. 

“What have I gotten myself into?” you whisper to yourself.