Tokyo Ghost

Rick Remender and Sean Gordon Murphy launched Tokyo Ghost at Image Comics in 2015. Led Dent and Debbie Decay work as constables in a polluted future where digital distraction is the dominant commodity.

An assignment takes them from Los Angeles toward a place that has resisted their world's dependence on technology. Their journey brings addiction, intimacy, and the hope of withdrawal into conflict.

The series gives the language of tech addiction a violent physical world. Attention is treated as a resource fought over by gangs and employers, with visible damage to the environment and to relationships.

Its central pair supplies the emotional stakes. Escaping the system means more than reaching another country; it means changing habits shaped by years inside it.

The near future exaggerates digital dependency until it becomes the basis of an economy. People seek stimulation even as their cities and bodies bear the cost.

The contrast with a less connected society makes the story ask whether disconnection is possible once technology has organized work, pleasure, and coercion.

Murphy's densely packed urban scenes make the future feel noisy and overfull. Screens, vehicles, and crowds compete for a reader's attention just as they do for the characters'.

The speed of the action is part of the argument: the pages can be exhilarating while showing a world unable to slow down.