Unleashing the adventure
The Rugpull Gang
A 24-page full-colour cyberpunk comic drawn in an anime style, created by Dwayne Gordon and illustrated by Chaouqui Zidiyat. The Rugpull Gang follows a fifteen-strong crew through New Manhattan — a city built on a levitating platform above the desert — while a woman nobody can name rides toward it out of the ruins of the old coast.
- Pages
- 24
- Trim
- 6.63 × 10.25 in
- Colour
- Full
What you are buying
A physical comic book. 24 pages, full colour on every one of them, printed to order and posted to you. It is a complete story — it does not stop part way through to sell you the next one.
- Pages
- 24, full colour throughout
- Trim size
- 6.63 × 10.25 in
- Format
- Paperback, printed to order
- Art
- Anime style, hand-illustrated
- Shipping
- Worldwide
- Price
- $24.99
The art
The book is drawn in an anime style and set in a cyberpunk city, and those two things are the reason to own it rather than read a summary of it. Mechanical bulls fight in an arena under floodlights. A city sits on a levitating platform above a desert. The colour work carries as much of the story as the dialogue does.
There are fifteen members of the gang, and they are from the UK, China, Russia, New York, Nigeria, Spain, South Africa, France, Jamaica, Japan, Australia and Brazil. Thirteen have a full profile; two are redacted on purpose. You can look at all of them before you decide whether the cast is one you want to spend time with.
What you do not need
No crypto wallet. No tokens. No account — you can check out as a guest with an email address for the receipt and an address for the printer. No knowledge of blockchain, NFTs or minting is required to follow the story.
Payment is an ordinary card payment through Stripe, with Apple Pay and Google Pay where your device supports them. The financial world the book is set in is the setting, in the way a heist film is set in a bank. You do not need an account at the bank to watch the film.
Who it is for
Readers who like crew stories and heist films, anime and manga art, and science fiction where the technology is a place rather than a plot device. Nobody in it has powers in the cape sense. They have money, machinery, nerve and each other, and the book is clear-eyed that those are not the same as being safe.
If you would rather read before you buy, the articles go through the cast, the energy ratings and what is coming in issue two — including the things we are not explaining yet.