Hotwire: Requiem for the Dead (http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page=user_review&id=708) is pretty damn good. The world isn't *quite* the same, but it hits a lot of the same themes - the ubiquitous computing, the social-media saturated society (and its role in said society's upheaval), the unethical scientific experimentation, and even the savvy, sarcastic tech-expert protagonist, quipping with ease and fighting baddies with the Power of Science. The art is absolutely *gorgeous*, too. Very inspirational, art-wise.

Yeah, City of Dust is pretty awesome, too. I'll check the others out, too - Earp looks refreshing - post-apocalyptica with a bit of a twist... :)

Quincey Forder wrote:

Love the parts about 40 percent of people never changing the factory password setting. I wonder if it's true as well for EP's people and their PAN (called Cloud in HWR4tD)? That would bring interesting twist to hacking in EP. You got poor infosec but good Research score? no problem! look out the model and brand of the item/system router you want to hack with Research a -40 mod and add your MoS to your infosec score before rolling the hack-tion

It's not that people doesn't change it just because they are lazy, sometimes they don't have the slightest idea on how to do it (or they don't wanna mess with a working item). In EP, however, I doubt this is the same, because in the worst case scenario the Muse saves the day and remembers all your passwords. That also means that, unless the target is a really, really concrete type of person, most passwords will be random alfanumerical strings (or worst, a phrase with each word in a different language, using another language's gramathics... and the words randomly cut and dispersed through the phrase). However, the more old and powerful someone is, the more likely you can find clues for the passwords (Spaceballs' president comes to my mind... not to mention the password for the princess' planet's atmosphere XD). I'd limit the bonus to a +10 to infosec if trying to sneak in, and an extra 10 to 30% time reduction in case of brute force attacks (so you could, potentially, cut them to only 10% of the time needed or so); at the GM's discrection, obviously ^^

Have you heard of the comic series Elephantmen? It's about these human/animal hybrids who were created to fight a war for Africa against China for control of Europe after a deadly virus whiped out most of the population. But after the war, the UN rehablitated these so called "Elephantmen" into society. The story focuses on the life of a hippo Elephantmen named Hip Flask, his friends and his enamies, both human and Elephantmen. http://www.hipflask.com/ It's a very interesting concept, and it gives on an idea of what life for uplifts are like.

It's mind blowing to me that this stuff hasn't gone mainstream. I know there was a story line in Ironman where Tony Stark backed up his memories and then erased his mind. Not backing up since he started the erasing process, he is missing a a few months of his life. But the transhuman ideas seem too cool not to hit. Like there should be a movie about this stuff!

The Ironman comic "Hypervelocity" is also very eclipse phase - essentially the whole plot is about trying to stop a renegade AGI and how the marvel universe is trying to ignore the clear potential of a singularity. Lots of fun things to steal, like the "beautiful garbage" subculture or the mindhacking.

The Takeshi Kovacs novels are a must for any EP fan. I would highly recommend them. The 3rd novel is excellent.

Just came across the comic Prophet, written by Brandon Graham (Image). It is a new version of some older comic, with the writers and artists doing their own thing with it. Set in a far future the supersoldier protagonist pursues various secretive goals on an Earth mostly inhabited by very alien creatures - maybe they are alien invaders, maybe they are degenerate posthumans. It is full of interesting, creepy and plain disgusting details that can provide plenty of material for biotechnology, enhancements, exhumans and aliens. Biodegradable spacecraft, biotech/nanotech shapeshifting utility armor, bizarre mixtures of symbiosis, parasitism and biotechnology, degenerating humanity and an Ultimate protagonist. I can definitely see the dolmantle as a tool used by a well-equipped hypercorp soldier - part pet, part tool, part armor, part spacesuit, part nanobandage.

I'm shocked - SHOCKED! - that no one here has mentioned Transmetropolitan! Gonzo style journalism in a Eclipse Phase style future. Surprisingly funny.

Quincey Forder wrote:

Spider Jerusalem would make a kick ass character.

He does, one of the PCs in the campaign I'm running now is playing a character inspired by him and having enormous fun doing it. The "Dirty Pair" comics by Adam Warren- writer of the Iron Man: Hypervelocity storyline mentioned above- are also very much worth a look. Take a generic anime/manga Space Opera setting with scantily-clad heroines, and then have the licensed US adaption written by someone with serious Transhumanist ideas. All are worth reading, but "Run from the Future" and "Fatal (but not serious)" are my personal favourites.

"Markus" wrote:

"if you are still in when the [implant] dissolve, you die. If you unplug before, i'll kill you."

I loved that first issue! was it one of the pilot season winner?