Story

The Isles of Los Angles are a toxic sewer, her inhabitants addicted to technologies designed to distract from this reality. Amid this filth grows one flower, a luddite named Debbie, who must travel to the garden nation of Tokyo to find the key to unplug both the man she loves, and her entire world.

It is2089and we are all completely addicted to our collective home opium den: the Internet. Automation has taken most jobs leaving a population of unemployed leisure seekers to borrow, steal, and kill to afford the next digital fix to distract from the noxious sewer they’ve turned the real world into. Entertainment is the only thing left to live for–the drug everyone needs–and one corporate gangster runs it all.

Who does this gangster turn to when he needs his rule enforced?
Tech-addictedLed Dentand ludditeDebbie Decay, Constables of the law.
In order to save Led, the love of her life, Debbie must travel from the squalor of The Isles of Los Angeles to the tech-free, garden nation of Tokyo to acquire the means to unplug the entire planet. But can two people grown in toxicity remove themselves from their environment without poisoning their new home?

Tokyo Ghost is an examination of our growing addiction to technology and triviality while the world falls apart around us and how far two people in love will go to revert things back to how they once were.

All 10 issues of Rick Remender and Sean Murphy’s sci-fi epic in raw inks, all series covers, some process pages from layout to inks and model sheets and designs. Fully lettered by Rus Wooton.

Our Tokyo Ghost Artist Proof collects issues 1-10 of The Tokyo Ghost for the first time in its original black and white. It comes in 3 separate formats, each with a unique cover by Sean Murphy.

Our softcover comes in standard US comic size, to match the original series.

The next step up is an 8 x 12 oversized hardcover edition, printed to order, so when the campaign ends, so does our print run.

If you want to go all out on the supersized DELUXE EDITION, (you deserve it!) we’re printing a small run at full 11 x 17 original art size. Only 400 copies of the Deluxe Edition will be printed, and then they’re gone forever.

Shipping costs to be calculated and collected by Backerkit after the campaign.

It’s been 10 years since this best selling series predicted the world we are entering into step-by-step. We may never get another chance to print this book in its raw, lettered glory.

Rick Remenderis the co-creator of hit seriesLOW,Death or Glory,BlackScience,Seven to Eternity,Fear Agent,Deadly Class, andTokyo Ghostfor Image Comics and ofAll-NewCaptain Americafor Marvel, where his work is the basis for multiple films and shows. Hes written and developed several sci-fi games for Electronic Arts, including the acclaimed survival horror titleDead Space, and has worked alongside the Russo brothers as a showrunner on Sonys adaptation ofDeadly Class. Currently, hes developing several as yet unannounced adaptations of his work for film and television and curating the next chapter of his publishing imprint, Giant Generator.

Sean Murphyis a comic book creator known for work on such books asJoe the Barbarianwith Grant Morrison,Chrononautswith Mark Millar,American Vampire: Survival of the FittestandThe Wakewith Scott Snyder,Tokyo Ghostwith Rick Remender, and the miniseriesPunk Rock Jesus. In 2024 he successfully licensedZorroto create a new book titledZorro: Man of the Dead, which became a big success on Kickstarter as well as in stores. He is also the creator of theMurphyverse, a subcontinuity that serves as the setting for stories featuring Batman that is separate from the main DC Universe continuity. These titles includeBatman: White Knightand its sequels,Curse of the White KnightandBeyond the White Knight, which Murphy wrote and illustrated.

Risks and challenges

Fulfillment expected to begin this coming winter. All shipping charges to be paid by the backer on Backerkit after the campaign, based on weight and current pricing when the books ship. The book is complete, our printer is secured. All we need is you.