Ghost in the Shell 2 Man-Machine Interface (2003) comic books

Regular cover. by MASAMUNE SHIROW; translation by FREDERIK L. SCHODT March 6, 2035. Motoko Aramaki is a hyper-advanced cyborg, a counter-terrorist net security expert, heading the investigative department of the giant multi-national, Poseidon Industrial. Partly transcending the physical world and existing in a virtual world of networks, Motoko is a fusion of multiple entities and identities, deploying remotely controlled prosthetic humanoid surrogates around the globe to solve a series of bizarre incidents. Meanwhile, Tamaki Tamai, a psychic investigator from the Channeling Agency, has been commissioned to investigate strange changes in the temporal universe, brought about by two forces, one represented by the teachings of a professor named Rahampol, and the other by the complex, evolving Motoko entity. What unfolds will all be in a day's work...a day that will change everything, forever. Man-Machine Interface, the long awaited-sequel to Masamune Shirow's groundbreaking Ghost in the Shell and one of the most highly anticipated comics series in many years, finally reaches American shores. Featuring 100 pages of new art and story created since its original publication, most rendered in dazzling full color with awe-inspiring digital effects on a level never before seen in the annals of graphic fiction. Shirow has raised the bar for what can be achieved on the page, page after page!. MATURE READERS On sale October 30 FC, 40pg (no ads) . . .$4.99 Cover price $4.99.

Chrome Cover. by MASAMUNE SHIROW; translation by FREDERIK L. SCHODT March 6, 2035. Motoko Aramaki is a hyper-advanced cyborg, a counter-terrorist net security expert, heading the investigative department of the giant multi-national, Poseidon Industrial. Partly transcending the physical world and existing in a virtual world of networks, Motoko is a fusion of multiple entities and identities, deploying remotely controlled prosthetic humanoid surrogates around the globe to solve a series of bizarre incidents. Meanwhile, Tamaki Tamai, a psychic investigator from the Channeling Agency, has been commissioned to investigate strange changes in the temporal universe, brought about by two forces, one represented by the teachings of a professor named Rahampol, and the other by the complex, evolving Motoko entity. What unfolds will all be in a day's work...a day that will change everything, forever. Man-Machine Interface, the long awaited-sequel to Masamune Shirow's groundbreaking Ghost in the Shell and one of the most highly anticipated comics series in many years, finally reaches American shores. Featuring 100 pages of new art and story created since its original publication, most rendered in dazzling full color with awe-inspiring digital effects on a level never before seen in the annals of graphic fiction. Shirow has raised the bar for what can be achieved on the page, page after page!. MATURE READERS On sale October 30 FC, 40pg (no ads) . . .$4.99 Cover price $4.99.

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by MASAMUNE SHIROW; translation by Frederik L. Schodt March 6, 2035 ? four and half years since cyber-cop Matoko Kusanagi joined with an artifical intelligence and quit the 9th Police Squad. Now, a hyper-advanced cyborg called Motoko Aramaki ? a fusion of multiple entities and identities ? heads the investigative department of the giant multi-national, Poseidon Industrial, deploying remotely controlled humanoid surrogates around the globe as on-the-ground agents. When a herd of specially-bred pigs used to clone human organs for transplant are slaughtered, Motoko dispatches herself through cyberspace and utilizing surrogate cyborgs at far-flung locales to do the heavy lifting, Matoko hunts down the attackers, battling online and on the ground, but there may be more to the mystery than meets the eye...even the all-seeing eye of artificial intelligence. No work of graphic fiction you've ever experienced can prepare you for the mind-warping journey that is Man-Machine Interface. ? Special deluxe format with no interior advertising! FOR MATURE READERS On sale November 27 FC, 32pg (no ads) . . . $3.50 Cover price $3.50.

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by MASAMUNE SHIROW; translation by Frederik L. Schodt Cyborg cyber-agent Matoko Aramaki has dispatched a humanoid surrogate ? call her "Clarice" ? to investigate an apparent terrorist attack on a herd of genetically-engineered pigs designed for human organ cloning. And no sooner does the surrogate hit the ground in a vehicle assembly plant halfway around the world than she's wrangling a herd of a different kind ? no- nonsense security cyborgs bent on sending her to the cyber-scrapheap. But when Clarice/Matoko jacks into the brain of the facility's supervisor and breaks through network firewalls into the level 6 "ghostline," Motoko discovers that the pig slaughter may have been only a strike against a deeper conspiracy ? and yet another hidden enemy! ? Special deluxe format with no interior advertising! FOR MATURE READERS On sale December 18 FC, 32pg (no ads) . . . $3.50 Cover price $3.50.

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by MASAMUNE SHIROW An important meeting of VIPs at Poseidon Industrial turns to mayhem and then murder right under the nose of cyborg cyber-agent Motoko Aramaki and Poseidon's security team. With the blood still wet on the polished hardwood, Maotoko must once again jack into cyberspace and try to solve the crime with the use of one of her cyborg surrogates ? providing her surrogate survives a knock-down drag-out encounter with a hit team of murderous machines! The mind-blowing sequel to the manga/anime classic Ghost in the Shell, Masamune Shirow's Man-Machine Interface shatters the boundaries of graphic fiction, conjuring a fully-realized visual reality unlike anything seen before but certain to be imitated for years to come. FOR MATURE READERS On sale January 22 FC/b&w, 32pg (no ads) . . . $3.50 Cover price $3.50.

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MASAMUNE SHIROW On sale April 2, FC, 32pg (no ads), $3.50 Cyber-agent Motoko Aramaki remains hot on the trail of the shadowy terrorists making life hell for Poseidon Industrial. Motoko deploys a cyborg surrogate, Chroma, for on-the- ground operations to pick up needed information, but while waiting for an e-brain private eye to pony up the data, Chroma is jacked into a no-holds-barred virtual combat game? at least she hopes it's virtual! The synapse-frying followup to the manga/anime heavyweight champion, Ghost in the Shell, Masamune Shirow's Man-Machine Interface crushes to powder any previous notions of what is or is not a comic book with its dizzying storyline and cutting-edge, digitally enhanced visuals, unlike anything comics have ever offered. Special deluxe format with no interior advertising! FOR MATURE READERS Cover price $3.50.

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Add to cart VF 8.0 $6.40

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MASAMUNE SHIROW On sale May 21, FC/b&w, 32pg (no ads) (6 of 11), $3.50 Chroma, one of super-cyber agent Motoko Aramaki's cyborg surrogate operatives, has a little problem. She's not sure whether she's in the real world or inside a game...but either way, there are plenty of well-armed weirdoes going all-out to turn Chroma into a grease- spot, virtual and/or literal. And real or not, their goal is to find a way to get to Motoko, and she may have unwittingly provided them with the means to track her down...and rub her out! The brain-twisting followup to the manga/anime classic Ghost in the Shell, Masamune Shirow's Man-Machine Interface redefines the limits of "comic book" to create an immersing visual landscape unlike anything seen before in graphic fiction. ? Special deluxe format with no interior advertising! Cover price $3.50.

MASAMUNE SHIROW FOR MATURE READERS On sale August 6, FC, 32pg, (no ads), $3.50 After arriving at the ocean-floating Poseidon Industrial Headquarters, super cyber-agent Motoko Aramaki is determined to infiltrate into the Decatoncale supercomputer, one of only three such systems on earth. But breaking through Poseidon's security into the network won't exactly be a walk in the park, and even if she manage to jack in, the dangers of the virtual dimension are every bit as deadly! The mind-mulching sequel to the manga/anime classic Ghost in the Shell, Masamune Shirow's Man-Machine Interface takes comics to a level never-before-seen, creating a fever-dream cyberscape of spectacular?and disturbing?realism. Special deluxe format with no interior advertising! Cover price $3.50.

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MASAMUNE SHIROW FOR MATURE READERS On sale September 10, b&w, 32pg (no ads), #3.50 Having jacked-in to the Decatonale supercomputer, cyber-agent Motoko Aramaki is hot on the virtual trail of the mystery entity behind the wave of terrorists attacks rocking Poseidon International's world. And that trail leads through Millennium, another formidable?and not hard to look at!?cybernaut who's ready, willing, and able to run Motoko through the digital shredder! The synapse-sizzling sequel to the manga/anime classic Ghost in the Shell, Masamune Shirow's Man-Machine Interface takes graphic fiction to a new plateau, creating breathtaking images and dizzying concepts of astonishing complexity and originality. ? Special deluxe format with no interior advertising! Cover price $3.50.

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MASAMUNE SHIROW FOR MATURE READERS On sale October 15, FC, 32pg, (no ads), $3.50 Deep inside the electronic infinity of the enemy Decatonale supercomputer, cyber-agent Motoko Aramaki plays hide-and-seek with the system's digital defenses to get the root of the terrorist attacks plaguing Poseidon International. It's been a tough cyber-fight, but one that becomes even tougher when Motoko Aramaki encounters a new adversary, the one- and-only Motoko Kusanagi, whose personality is embedded in the core of her own multi- identity. And when the entities begin to spontaneously fuse, the existence of each?or both!?hangs in the balance! The consciousness-altering sequel to the manga/anime classic Ghost in the Shell, Masamune Shirow's Man-Machine Interface takes graphic fiction into unexplored territory, a hallucinatory dreamscape of unforgettable visions and unimaginable ideas. Cover price $3.50.

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MASAMUNE SHIROW MATURE READERS On sale November 19, FC, 32pg (no ads), $3.50 Even for the hallucinatory, infinite landscape of cyberspace, stuff's getting out of hand! Deep within the digital universe of the Decontale supercomputer, super cyber-agent Motoko Aramaki is in deep trouble. It's tough enough running the risk of being caught by heavily-armed security in the real world, but when Matoko is being given the business by the godlike avatars in the virtual world, Matoko runs an even greater risk: assimilation and erasure! The astonishing sequel to the manga/anime classic Ghost in the Shell, Masamune Shirow's Man-Machine Interface takes graphic fiction into unexplored realms, creating a fully-realized digital dreamscape that takes readers to the edge of tomorrow and to a coming age where the nature of existence itself will be deconstructed, reassembled, and redefined. Cover price $3.50.

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MASAMUNE SHIROW FOR MATURE READERS On sale December 24, FC, 32pg (no ads), Roaring down the final stretch, Man-Machine Interface reaches its explosive climax as master storytelling visionary Masamune Shirow continues to tear down the walls between actual and virtual, flesh and circuit, soul and science. Taking the dizzying concepts began in the manga-anime classic Ghost in the Shell and accelerating them to critical mass, Shirow has crafted a true 21st Century epic of monumental visual complexity and staggering conceptual depth, almost as though Shirow were writing for an audience already living in the future he envisions. Breathtaking, challenging, and a little dangerous, Man-Machine Interface is a graphic-fiction masterpiece that will be read, re-read, and argued about for years to come! Translation by Frederik L. Schodt (Ghost in the Shell, Astro Boy). Special deluxe format with no interior advertising! Cover price $3.50.