Is this cartoonist mentally ill?!

Chapter 22 this is a thought (Part 1)

In the chat group "Shanghai Science Fiction Hobby group".

King of Force: "the comics you recommended are really good."

Zhou Wenwei had just gone to the newsstand to buy the latest issue of "Comic World" magazine when he suddenly felt his mobile phone ring and picked up his flip phone.

He smiled happily as he saw King of Force's message in the group.

It's a great feeling to see the work I recommend being recognized by others.

He typed in a reply: "right, but have you read today's?"

King of Force: "Yeah, I just saw it on the newsstand. I read the last episode and thought it was very good."

King of Force: "especially the last issue brings your written interview. I really didn't expect science fiction comics to have such deep intentions."

King of Force: "then I went back to look for the previous serials and read them from the beginning in one sitting. The setting is very good."

Zhou Wenwei was surprised for a moment to see the king of Force's response. In this issue ... is there a text interview with the author of "Edgerunner"?

And it is very good, with a deep intention.

And as far as he knew, the King of Force never paid attention to comics.

As a result, did he really keep up with all the previous series of "Edgerunner" because of the last serialization and written interview?

Online dating Showbird was duped: "I watched it and the setting is actually very interesting, but the plot is a bit frustrating at the moment."

The man is so tired: "the plot began with lightning. There was no father or mother. That shocked me."

The man is so tired: "but I think this plot is normal. It's quite realistic. It doesn't have the halo of the protagonist."

Black hole gravity: "I really like that heroine Lucy, Hey, my wife is so beautiful."

King of Force: "shit! That's my wife!"

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Zhou Wenwei looked at the chat logs where the group started joking, immediately smiled, and returned home with the magazine.

After getting a can of Coca-Cola from the refrigerator, he sat down in his room and opened the magazine.

He first read the latest serialization of "edgerunner". The title of this issue was "Joining the Gang".

Immediately after the last plot of the series, Lucy actually betrayed David, allowing Maine, Dorio, Faraday and others to capture David.

Their target is the military prosthesis "sandevistan" that was implanted in David. It turns out that David's mother Gloria quietly came to an agreement with Maine.

Gloria steals the sandevistan and sells it to Maine.

However, Gloria was already dead and David did not know it, so he was directly stimulated by Katsuo, a colleague who intimidated him, to deploy the "sandevistan".

Maine and others did not believe that David could control the powerful prosthetic body "sandevistan", and David showed this on the spot.

In the end, as Maine owed Gloria some favors, he relented and opted to give David a chance to join the team and earn money to pay off the debt.

At the same time, Arasaka found out what was special about David and asked Tanaka, the dean of Arasaka College, to invite David to return to the college, so that David would throw himself into the trap.

But David directly refused, and at this time Maine's first task appeared for David to show his skills and join the gang.

"This is the end of this story."

The plot once again ended in an exciting place, but the direction of the plot fell within Zhou Wenwei's expectations.

"This serialization is very slow. I have to wait another week."

Zhou Wenwei said very angry.

That's the bad part about " edgerunner." It is serialized in semi-annual format, which is not at all pleasant.

It would be great if it was Weekly.

Or just wait until "edgerunner" is released as a single volume, buy the single volume and read it.

But the setting and story of "edgerunner" attracted so much attention that Zhou Wenwei simply could not stop pursuing serialization and waiting for the standalone book to appear.

"The Force said this issue has a written interview with edgerunner, let's see what's going on."

Zhou Wenwei turned directly to the side of the text interview, and then saw the text interview about "Cyberpunk 2077: Edgerunner".

I saw a bubble box drawn on the head of the mascot of the Comic Culture logo:

"In this issue, we especially invite professor Qingshan, the comics teacher of "Cyberpunk 2077: Edgerunner", to answer what everyone else wants to know. ."

"First of all, the first question. Professor Qingshan, what exactly does cyberpunk mean in the title of your work?

Below is a bust of David, which directly represents the cartoonist Aoyama who created " Cyberpunk 2077: Edgerunner".

I saw written on the bubble box: "Cyberpunk is actually an English word - which is a word formed by Cyber and Punk."

Cyberpunk?

Cybernetic and Punk?

As a man with a major in science and engineering, Zhou Wenwei naturally knew that Cyber meant Network and computer. Suddenly realized that it was a direct transliteration of the word.

But what is Punk?

"Cyber usually means Network and computer, but here Cyber mainly refers to cybernetics, which means control and governance, while punk is a type of music popular among civilians in the West. It's a relatively rebellious song. Their music and mind is more inclined towards ideological emancipation and towards an anti-mainstream stance."

"Therefore, in my interpretation, the term cyberpunk means high technology and low life."

"Cyberpunk primarily means that in a world of extreme development and powerful capital, people have become insignificant creatures. Due to the development of high technology, the dividing line between humans and machines begins to disappear, and the development of artificial intelligence is born. story about the conflict between thoughtful androids, artificial intelligence, hackers and large corporations that control wealth, while marginalized characters use high technology to escape the collective consciousness and achieve individual freedom."

"I see."

Zhou Wenwei suddenly realized.

Since then, his doubts have been dispelled. It turns out that cyberpunk is a transliterated English word, and also a new vocabulary created by the cartoonist.

Then he looked at the next question.

"Professor Qingshan, May I ask what is the creative concept behind your work "edgerunner"?"

This issue is also very critical. Zhou Wenwei immediately looked at the answer Lin Qingshan gave next.

"The main thing is to look at the current works of science fiction. All of them highlight the power of future technology and the benefits and advantages of interstellar exploration. However, it seems that no one has thought about what will happen to the underlying individuals in the era of rapid technological advancement."

"So the cyberpunk I paint is about imagining the worst possible ending under the backdrop of a powerful future technology."

"Technology, wealth and knowledge are completely in the hands of upper-class elites and capital firms. They will dominate the subsequent third and fourth world wars and divide the power of the whole world."

"The people and individuals of the lower class have become completely consumable and slaves. At the same time, the development of Science and technology and material satisfaction have also led to a lack of spirituality and humanism."

"The essence of cyberpsychosis is not simply that the degree of transformation of the prosthetic body is too high, causing the nerves to be unable to withstand the erosion of the prosthetic body, but the pressure of the entire social environment and the weakness of the spiritual, coupled with the degree of transformation of the prosthetic body too high, resulting in cyberpsychosis ."

(End of Chapter)