Grey - Yoshihisa Tagami September 8, 2006
Posted by AxeMan808 in : AxeMan808, Comics, Manga ,Grey v1-2 c01-18 (complete)
Yoshihisa Tagami
Info excerpted from:
http://www.theanimereview.com/index.html?reviews/grey.html
(actually a review of the anime, but applies equally well to the manga)
500 years in the future, after a cataclysmic war has devastated much of humankind, the survivors live in meager boroughs, desperate to reach a better life. Grey is one such survivor, and he has joined the legions of soldiers who fight against other regions for ultimate control. To become a Citizen, one must start as a Class F Trooper and get confirmed enemy kills to move up through the ranks. Grey has become legendary for his skills, and at the beginning of the show, he receives Class B status.
But why does Grey kill? We find out that his old girlfriend, Lips, died years ago in pursuit of becoming a Citizen, and he wears her bullet-tattered helmet into combat. He wants to realize her dream for her, in some ways, and has become a deadly machine in the process. But when he gets assigned to a new unit and gets into a relationship with the sassy Nova, he starts realizing that not everything is right with the system. His journey of discovery takes him to the heart of Big Mama, the computer structure that controls their world, and there he finds out secrets that will shake the foundations of society.
Grey v1 c01-09 ~55mb
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=YLRVUOKK
Grey v2 c10-18 ~60mb
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=K7IW2AOX
John Byrne - Next Men September 8, 2006
Posted by AxeMan808 in : AxeMan808, Comics, Dark Horse, ProjectW.org ,From bonzobutch @ ProjectW
John Byrne’s Next Men 0-30 (plus 2112, not the Rush album)
John Byrne’s Next Men (also simply Next Men or JBNM) is a comic book series written and drawn by John Byrne. It ran 31 issues (#0-30) plus a standalone prequel, 2112. The series was published between 1991 and 1995 by Dark Horse Comics.
Along with its late-1980s/early-1990s contemporaries such as Watchmen, JBNM was a deconstruction of the superhero genre, positing a world with nascent superhumans and considering how they would impact the world in fairly realistic terms, for the genre.
The series ended with a cliffhanger in #30. Byrne had intended to conclude the story in a second series, but the collapse of the American comic book industry in the mid-1990s made it financially unfeasible for him to do so, and he returned to working for hire at DC Comics and Marvel Comics. As of 2006 it is not known whether the Next Men story will ever be concluded.
JBNM has been collected as a set of graphic novels:
0. 2112
1. Book One: reprints issues 0-6
2. Parallels: reprints issues 7-12
3. Fame: reprints issues 13-18
4. Faith: reprints issues 19-22
5. Power: reprints issues 23-26
6. Lies: reprints issues 27-30
Books 1-3 ~ 240mb
http://www.megaupload.com/fr/?d=TFXJNMDP
Books 0,4-6 ~ 175mb
http://www.megaupload.com/fr/?d=X7RL68G3