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Psy-Comm

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Overview

In the not-too-distant future, sovereign nations have been replaced by corporate city-states. War is entertainment - scheduled, televised and rated. It's the new opiate of the masses and its stars are the elite Psychic Commandos, known as "Psy-Comms." In the corp-state of Electromedia, no star shines brighter than that of Mark Leit, a young man destined to become possibly the greatest Psy-Comm of all time. But a tragedy from his past, and a desire for redemption, will cause Mark to abandon everything his life has stood for. Tokyopop

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Author Information

Bio of Jason Henderson

Co-writer Jason Henderson has published five novels and is currently the writer on a slew of modern horror/adventure comics. Among them are the commandos-versus-vampires comic SWORD OF DRACULA and the witchcraft-romance SYLVIA FAUST (both published by Image).

Bio of Ramanda Karmaga

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Bio of Shane Granger

Artist Shane Granger was a runner-up in TOKYOPOP's 2nd Rising Stars of Manga competition with his entry, "Possessions." He recently graduated from the University of Washington, Tacoma with a degree in Business Administration.

Bio of Tony Salvaggio

Co-writer Tony Salvaggio is a computer animator, writer, musician, and a video game, anime and manga junkie. His past credits include lead animator on Spongebob Squarepants: Revenge of the Flying Dutchman for PS2 and Gamecube.

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Imprint

TOKYOPOP

Filesize

60.17 MB

Number of Pages

192

eBook ISBN

9781598162691

Excerpt from: Psy-Comm by Jason Henderson

When former TOKYOPOP editor Mark Paniccia handed Psy-Comm off to me, he was running out of time to get his affairs in order before his last day at the office. Mark hurriedly shoved some notes and sample art at me, then rattled off the high-concept line to describe the book ' "it's kinda like X-Men meets Rollerball meets Logan's Run."

Well, high-concept lines can only convey so much, and in this case, the total definitely exceeds the sum of the parts.

Writers Jason Henderson and Tony Salvaggio, along with artist Shane Granger, have created their own dystopian world with Psy-Comm. It is a future vision influenced by, but not beholden to, the aforementioned stories as well other various anime, manga and even a 70's heavy metal song.

One of the things that make this book so compelling to me is that while certain fun sci-fi elements require the requisite leap of faith, there is also the nagging suspicion that the depersonalized, corporate-controlled future realized by Henderson, Salvaggio and Granger may not be not be as far-fetched as one might first imagine. And then there's the fact that Psy-Comm is simply a kick-ass action/adventure romp, with a spritz of romance thrown in for good measure.