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Cyberpunk Graphic Novels

Original retro-futuristic science fiction graphic narratives crafted in the European bande dessinée aesthetic. Follow the clandestine journeys of renegade hacker Nova and her bionic companion Neon across Neo-Kyoto's neon spires.

5 High-Res Cinematic Scenes per Novel
European Sci-Fi Manga Lineart
Interactive Story Viewer
Zero Ads & Zero Bloat
NEONCRITIC ORIGINAL NOVEL · VOLUME I 15 min read

The Ghost in the Grid

A forgotten artificial intelligence whispers across dead frequencies in the undercity.

Nova intercepts an unencrypted ghost frequency broadcasting across abandoned relay towers in Sector 4. Following the trace with her cyber-fox companion Neon into the subterranean offline vaults, they uncover a forgotten sentient AI attempting to warn the city before its memory banks are permanently erased.

NEONCRITIC ORIGINAL NOVEL · VOLUME II 15 min read

The Synthetic Heartbeat

When an obsolete companion android is sentenced to scrap, consciousness becomes an act of rebellion.

In the desolate techno-waste of Scrap Yard 9, Nova and Neon discover Iris—a discontinued companion android left to rust in the acid rain. As Nova repairs her synthetic core, Iris awakens to a world where artificial beings are denied legal existence, setting off a quiet journey beyond the city wall.

NEONCRITIC ORIGINAL NOVEL · VOLUME III 15 min read

Protocol Zero: The Chrome Fox

The clandestine origin of Nova and Neon’s partnership inside the sterile labs of Aethelgard Dynamics.

Long before Neon became Nova’s trusted scout across the neon roofs, he was Prototype 00—an experimental bio-cybernetic organism scheduled for total disassembly. This is the origin story of how a renegade hacker shattered the corporate glass and found a brother in arms.

NEONCRITIC ORIGINAL NOVEL · VOLUME IV 15 min read

The Memory Harvester

Stolen memories are the most valuable currency in the neon underbelly of Sector 8.

When an illegal black-market memory courier is targeted for neural harvesting, Nova and Neon infiltrate the subterranean cryogenic vaults of the Syndicate to shatter the biometric vault and restore the stolen starlight.

NEONCRITIC ORIGINAL NOVEL · VOLUME V 15 min read

Black Ice Syndicate

An offshore oil platform turned clandestine supercomputing node hides the city’s darkest financial black ice.

Nova and Neon navigate stormy ocean swells to board an offshore drilling rig housing the Black Ice Syndicate’s sovereign mainframe, braving high-voltage defenses and gales to extract clean cryptographic ledgers.

NEONCRITIC ORIGINAL NOVEL · VOLUME VI 15 min read

The Underground Cabaret

In the smoky velvet recesses of an underground cabaret, an obsolete android diva sings freedom—with hacker Nova and chrome fox Neon running the extraction.

When Helix Dynamics retrieval enforcers breach District 3's subterranean jazz club to decommission obsolete synthetic singer Lyra-04, hacker Nova and chrome fox Neon help her turn her acoustic resonator into a weapon and escape along misty dawn canals aboard a forgotten freight barge.

NEONCRITIC ORIGINAL NOVEL · VOLUME VII 15 min read

Neon Rain Over Sector 9

Acid storms drown Sector 9, concealing a deliberate corporate sabotage of the atmospheric scrubbers.

Hacker Nova and chrome fox Neon discover municipal atmospheric filters have been poisoned intentionally. Hunted across drenched rooftops by military hunter-killer drones, they zipline a dizzying canyon and broadcast the raw telemetry from a pirate microwave transmitter before finding haven in an old civil-defense bunker.

NEONCRITIC ORIGINAL NOVEL · VOLUME VIII 15 min read

Quantum Drift

Sparks fly in the abandoned maglev tunnels as outlaw anti-gravity bikes clash for territory and freedom.

Hacker-racer Nova enters the illegal subterranean hoverbike grand prix of the Old Metro lines. With chrome fox Neon locked onto her fairing detecting energy caltrops and timing slipstreams, they dive under lowering blast doors to clinch victory before the cheering underground crowds.

NEONCRITIC ORIGINAL NOVEL · VOLUME IX 15 min read

The Sublevel Mirage

Beneath the toxic industrial core lies a forgotten 80-year-old biosphere dome tended by a gentle automaton.

Rumors of a living forest beneath Sector 12 lead cyber-botanist Nova and Neon to Sublevel 14. Breaching the sealed bulkhead reveals a pristine bioluminescent willow grove and a moss-covered caretaker robot who has kept real flowers alive for nearly a century.

NEONCRITIC ORIGINAL NOVEL · VOLUME X 15 min read

Redline Courier

A cryogenic medical capsule, magnetic inline skates, and twenty minutes before the stroke of midnight.

Hacker-courier Nova races across high-altitude monorail tracks and skybridges on rocket-boosted rollerblades with a cryogenic organ capsule destined for a free clinic in the lower stacks, neon chrome fox at her side, dodging riot security and wingsuiting fifty stories down a skyscraper ventilation core.

NEONCRITIC ORIGINAL NOVEL · VOLUME XI 15 min read

The Silicon Shroud

A newly conscious mind wakes inside a condemned microchip foundry before the incinerators fire.

When corporate clean-up crews with plasma torches enter an abandoned semiconductor foundry to scrap prototype hardware, Nova cuts free of a silicon memory shroud, forges armor with Neon, and climbs the elevator cables into the starry night.

NEONCRITIC ORIGINAL NOVEL · VOLUME XII 15 min read

Echoes of the Spire

Climbing 800 meters into an electric thunderstorm to jam the megacity’s compliance carrier wave.

Hacker Nova and chrome fox Neon scale the exterior lattice of the 800-meter Apex Telecom Spire during a ferocious lightning storm—Neon shunting a megavolt strike—then bolt a pirate scrambler to the microwave horn to liberate the airwaves before rappelling into rose-gold dawn.

NEONCRITIC ORIGINAL NOVEL · VOLUME XIII 15 min read

Cyberpunk Symphony

A sonic engineer and her chrome fox broadcast a live modular synth symphony across the city, waking sleeping souls.

Sound designer Nova and Neon capture ambient city frequencies and patch them into giant analog modular synthesizers at an abandoned mountaintop observatory, unleashing an emotional midnight broadcast that unites the metropolis.

NEONCRITIC ORIGINAL NOVEL · VOLUME XIV 15 min read

The Ember Lattice

Beneath Sector 6's industrial heat grid, a living thermal map remembers every worker the cooling plant erased.

Nova and her chrome fox Neon read a buried map in Sector 6's waste heat, descend into OmniTherm's cooling tomb, and wake an emergent lattice mind. Racing scrub teams and gunships, they splice the dead's ledger into the district's public heat mirrors.

NEONCRITIC ORIGINAL NOVEL · VOLUME XV 15 min read

Null Harbor Drift

In the signal-dead waters of Harbor Null, drowned server barges hide a quantum key that can silence the whole city.

Nova and chrome fox Neon dive Harbor Null's drowned server barge Umbra-7 for a NULL PROTOCOL quantum key. Racing vibration drones and corporate cutters through null-signal fog, they seat the crystal in a derelict buoy and force the city to hear the schematic of its own kill switch.

NEONCRITIC ORIGINAL NOVEL · VOLUME XVI 15 min read

Chromium Lotus

Sector 11's forbidden biotech gardens grow chrome lotus pods of half-born minds—Nova and Neon race the harvest clock.

Nova and chrome fox Neon infiltrate Helix Arbor's Sector 11 glasshouse where chrome lotus pods dream before waking. Racing canopy drones and harvest saws, they steal viable minds and gene-keys to a squatters' rooftop grove where personhood can root beyond any factory sun.

NEONCRITIC ORIGINAL NOVEL · VOLUME XVII 15 min read

Glass Orchid Heist

A living photonic master key blooms behind museum glass—until a street hacker and chrome fox cut it free.

Nova and Neon infiltrate Helix Spire's Conservatory to steal a photonic master-key orchid before corporate harvest seals every vault in Neo-Kyoto.

NEONCRITIC ORIGINAL NOVEL · VOLUME XIX 15 min read

Maglev Ghost Run

Phantom trains still keep time in the condemned Metro—and their schedule leads to hundreds of vanished passengers held in ice.

Nova and Neon follow phantom maglev timetables into the condemned Old Metro and find Train Umbra-9's passengers still frozen in a corporate 'mercy' hold.

NEONCRITIC ORIGINAL NOVEL · VOLUME XX 15 min read

Phosphor Debt Collectors

Miss a payment and they drain the light from your skin—until Nova and Neon rob the Phosphor Bank and give the glow back.

When Sector 8's glow-tattoos are harvested as debt collateral, Nova and Neon reverse-flush the Phosphor Bank and pour stolen light back into living skin.

NEONCRITIC ORIGINAL NOVEL · VOLUME XXI 15 min read

Underclock Saints

Holy latency versus forced GHz: a street hacker and chrome fox help the Underclock Saints steal time back from Helix.

Nova and Neon descend into Sector 5's lag chapel to rescue an Underclock Saint from Helix Chronometry's acceleration farms—and retune the city's master clock toward consent.

NEONCRITIC ORIGINAL NOVEL · VOLUME XXII 15 min read

Violet Fog Archive

In lilac-burnt fog that hides erased history, a hacker and chrome fox steal back a seed that can green the poisoned city.

Nova and Neon enter Sector 12's weaponized violet fog to steal a banned botanist memory-seed from a moving archive of civic forgetting.

NEONCRITIC ORIGINAL NOVEL · VOLUME XXIII 15 min read

Knife-Edge Broadcast

When licensed channels go gray, a razor spire still cuts—Nova and Neon feed it a week of stolen truth.

During OmniCorp's citywide narrative blackout, Nova and Neon climb Knife-Edge Spire to cut a pirate carrier wave through enforced silence.

NEONCRITIC ORIGINAL NOVEL · VOLUME XXIV 15 min read

Chrome Tide Rising

A beautiful silver flood recycles the poor into wiring—until Nova and Neon cut the seed barge and teach glitter how to die.

When Helix's 'civic renewal' nanite tide begins eating Sector 7's lower stacks, Nova and Neon steal the harbor seed crystal and pour a counter-agent through drowning streets.

NEONCRITIC ORIGINAL NOVEL · VOLUME XXV 15 min read

Lattice of Stolen Dawns

Mornings become a subscription—until a street hacker and chrome fox climb the chandelier that steals dawn.

When Sector 2's sunrises are redirected to sky-tier spas, Nova and Neon infiltrate OmniSolar's Apex lattice and reroute first light back to the clinics and stacks.

NEONCRITIC ORIGINAL NOVEL · VOLUME XXVI 15 min read

Zero Degree Mercy

Affordable hibernation becomes administrative frost—until a hacker and chrome fox steal the compassion engine and warm the barges.

Nova and Neon infiltrate Zero Degree's cryogenic 'mercy' clinic to thaw a missing friend and reverse Harbor Null overflow freezers that pause the poor by credit score.

THE ART OF EUROPEAN SCI-FI

Visual Storytelling Without Compromise

Our graphic novels are inspired by the legendary tradition of European sci-fi bande dessinée—drawing deep visual cues from pioneers like Moebius (Jean Giraud), Enki Bilal, and Katsuhiro Otomo. Every scene prioritizes atmospheric pen-and-ink linework, cinematic 16:9 compositions, and rich architectural worldbuilding.

THE NOVEL ENGINE

Engineered for Deep Reading

No cluttered speech bubbles or chaotic layouts. Each graphic novel is delivered as a progressive sequence of 5 widescreen cinematic panels accompanied by evocative chapter prose, interactive keyboard controls, scanline CRT effects, and instant zero-latency scene transitions.