I'm guessing many of you have already read Drugs and Wires but if you haven't, it's worth checking out
I'm guessing many of you have already read Drugs and Wires but if you haven't, it's worth checking out
Drugs and Wires is a cyberpunk webcomic set in a fictional post-soviet, eastern European country in the 1990s. It primarily follows cyborged members of a now-collapsed scene for VR junkies, and the woman who runs an unlicensed chopshop, and a conspiracy around a worm that's been killing cyborgs. It's on hiatus at the moment, but it still has eight chapters of excellent content worth checking out.
Sounds good, but I'm wary of starting good webcomics in fears it's gonna be another one of those that will get one page per year for the next 10 years... :(
I definitely get that, whenever I find a new comic I usually check the latest page to see if it's from years ago and full of comments wishing it'd come back. Having gotten invested in it, I very much hope this one starts up again; they've gone on hiatus before.
That said, there's a lot of content here, including several finished prequel comics, and some ideas I think worth seeing. The fake post-soviet hellscape is a comedic take on the setting and I find the 90s retrofuture to be a kind of funny change from the more traditional 80s retrofuture (probably decently thematic, to set a cyberpunk comic with themes of selling out in the time period when corporations latched onto the genre and sold it away before it was really established). Most of the first cyberpunk I encountered, including Sherlock Holmes in the 22nd Century came from that marketing frenzy.