Ghost In The Shell comic books issue 3

By MASAMUNE SHIROW. When you build robots with artificial personalities, you risk the chance that they might not want to be treated like appliances. And when you pattern a robot's consciousness on a human template, you're transcribing hopes and fears. Robots are turning into crazed killers, and it's up to Major Kusanagi to determine whether this is a robot factory-worker's cry for help...or a general rebellion! Cover price $3.95.

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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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Cybercrime special-ops unit Section 9 has been mobilized to protect a key witness in a trial involving defective micro machines. And the witness definitely needs protection-from remote-controlled corpses packing serious hardware! And if the identity of these dead assassins' pilots isn't enough of a mystery for Section 9, how about the unexpected appearance of long-missing special agent Motoko Kusanagi! Ghost in the Shell 1.5: Human-Error Processor presents for the first time in America the 'lost' Ghost in the Shell stories, created by Shirow Masamune after completing work on the original Ghost in the Shell manga and prior to his tour-de-force, Ghost in the Shell 2: Man-Machine Interface. This deluxe-format issue concludes 'Fat Cat,' the first of four Ghost in the Shell tales. Cover price $2.99.

Volume 3 - 1st printing. "Episode 3: Idolater!" Story and art by Yu Kinutani. Stand Alone Complex takes place in the year 2030, in the fictional Japanese city of New Port. The story follows the members of Public Security Section 9, a special operations task-force made up of former military officers and police detectives. The manga presents individual cases that Section 9 investigates, along with an ongoing, more serious investigation into the serial killer and hacker known only as "The Laughing Man." Softcover, 5-in. x 7-in., 200 pages, B&W. Cover price $10.99.

Volume 3 - 1st printing. Based on THE GHOST IN THE SHELL by Shirow Masamune. Written by Junichi Fujisaku. Art and cover by Yuki Yoshimoto. Translated by Stephen Kohler. This brand-new chapter fills in the gaps between The Ghost in the Shell: Human-Error Processor and Man-Machine Interface manga with a tense cyberpunk thriller written by Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex script writer Junichi Fujisaku. Just in time for the release of the new Ghost in the Shell: SAC_2045 anime on Netflix! Togusa and rookie operative Tsunagi of Section 9 have been sent north following reports that Major Kusanagi's artificial body was seen in the city of Towada. Similar rumors send Batou and Ishikawa hundreds of miles south to infiltrate the ranks of a criminal organization in Okinawa. Over the course of both investigations, Section 9 learns that Hashikami and the killer known as the ""White Bear"" are plotting to assassinate Shinra Mikomoto, the recently elected mayor of New Port City. This news sends the scattered members of Section 9 swooping down on the city, where everything hinges on the mayor's fate. Softcover, 5-in. x 7-in., 256 pages, B&W. Older Teen (16+) Cover price $12.99.

Volume 3 - 1st Printing. Written by Shirow Masamune. Art and Cover by Rikudou Koushi. Translated by Casper Kazor. Adapted by Kat Adler. KNOWLEDGE IS POWER! Nene and Clarion have settled in with Nenes aunt Takumi, a reclusive genius with an interest in Nenes education-and in what makes Clarion tick. As for Nene, she wants nothing more than to find ways to help people, but she wants to do it with her own skills, not with borrowed power from Clarion and the Pandora Device, But between power grid problems, opportunistic thieves, and the mysterious forces at work on the island of Cenancle, using the Pandora Device may be Nenes only option! Softcover, 5-in. x 8-in., 180 pages, B&W. Teen Cover price $12.99.

Volume 3 - 1st printing. "White Maze!" Written by Junichi Fujisaku. The year is 2030. Advances in robotics and cyberbrain technology have transformed the world into a miraculous place where almost anything is possible--even the melding of humans and machines. In this not-too-distant future, the crimes of flesh and metal are investigated by Section 9, an elite counterterrorist squad headed by Chief Aramaki and his cyborg sidekick, Major Motoko Kusanagi. When dead bodies, drained of blood and with two bite marks on their necks, start turning up on the streets of Tokyo, it isn't long before the entire city is in a panic. As Major Kusanagi and the other members of Section 9 investigate the killings they begin to wonder--is the killer a real vampire or something much worse? In a dark world of murder, where cyberbrain hacks and treacherous conspiracies reach to the furthest heights of government, Section 9 is all that stands between the people and anarchy. Softcover, 5 in. x 7 in., 276 pages, Text Only. Cover price $8.95.