Chrome Roses

You can buy my amazing cyberpunk graphic novel Chrome Roses right here! Over $35,000 dollars in sales so far, shipping to over 40 different countries round the world. We have warehouses of stock in the USA, and the UK, to keep postage costs as low as possible. Check out the options here:

CHROME ROSES transports you to The Tract, a future city built on the ashes of a world destroyed by a pandemic viral catastrophe.

 It mixes cyberpunk, noir, and murder mystery into an atmospheric masterpiece simply described as “Blade Runner meets Hellboy”. Check it out here.

The story concerns Kramm, an outcast freelance detective, teaming up with Teo, a punk vigilante,  to expose a conspiracy linked to a resurgent deadly virus. 

It’s strong on mystery, detection, and widescreen kinetic action, lovingly hand-drawn on paper in a film noir style using ink, pens and airbrush.

As Kramm and Teo are drawn deeper into the conspiracy every streetpunk, mecha, and security drone is hired to stop them.Not to mention the deadly Trackerborgs hunting down the virus.

I’ve created a unique world full of strange and surprising rules â€“ rendered in shades of silver and black shadow with flashes of eerie glowing blue. It builds on the atmosphere of films like Blade Runner, The Big Sleep, and comics like Hellboy and Akira, to create a fresh story full of explosive new ideas about the future.

What kind of ideas?

  • It’s illegal to speak to anyone you don’t know in the future without first making an online business appointment (as relationships have been monetised, it’s much the same thing).
  • Husks are an invisible skin everyone wears from birth to protect society from deadly viruses. Husks also transmit enhanced feelings and sensations which are more intense and popular than real emotions. That means natural human experience has been lost, leading to a sense of longing and alienation. No human has legally touched another or felt the air on their skin for decades.
  • Sex is enhanced digitally through apps and Husks which organise relationships. The only perverts are those desperate freaks trying to touch each other or fall in love naturally, using real emotions. Such “skinfreaks” are hunted down like dangerous vermin.
  • The economy is virtual, and all your machines and gadgets earn money, pensions, and make purchases and investments. (Yes, your toaster might be richer than you are!) Accordingly, they have personalities and whims, though they can’t vote or reject their core function.
  • Democracy is instant and interactivevia social media, leading to sudden, brutal or mischievous changes in rules and conventions across The Tract.
  • Technology is a mix of weird new biotech and 80s style gadgets, cables and consoles. The online world is an ever-present full-body experience. delivered via Husk.  
  • The real villains here are not powerful corporations, rogue cyborgs, or the state (which no longer exists) but something far more pervasive and terrifying (NO SPOILERS).
  • The Tract has the perfect geography to power a living biocity – buildings are constructed which then grow and power like plants —  creating a customisable world of vapour, shadow and eerily growing root pipes feeding off the corpses of a buried world.

It’s attracted praise on social media from some well known comic artists online, such as Wonder Woman and Image artist Nicola Scott,  Batman maestro JockLee Garbett, Luke Ross, Martin Simmonds, and Patrick Goddard among others.

But what do you think? Take a look here

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