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More Glaggle-like drawings for 2-III-C-Delta-Gimmel.

The images are fairly obviously referenced from Akira, Ghost in the Shell, and Final Fantasy VII; I was looking to Japanese Cyberpunk for these ones very heavily. The top image being partially inspired by the Kowloon Walled City in British Hong Kong goes without saying.

Which name should I go with for the Akira-like stadium; Blibble's Field or the Neo Baltimore Hyperdrome?

The formative books for Cyberpunk, such as Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep or Neuromancer, all have a noted dissonance within them, between settings which have decayed to the point of being completely wretched and an overly dinky, cutesy, infantilizing society which anesthetizes the objective state of regular unrest. More recent Cyberpunk is simply too up-its-own-rectum with tropes to hit that same sensation, which I'd like to resurrect.
Even Bladerunner had comically garish Business Casual clothes throughout. I want that kind of cognitive dissonance, that kind of double-bind, really, to come back. 2-III-C-Delta-Gimmel is largely too fantastical and Genre to fit into strict "Cyberpunk", being not especially focused on computers, having a Type II interstellar setting, lacking the presence of large megacorporations in favor of the more despotic kinds of singular plutocrats which we have today, etc. I wonder if there is an extant to which going beyond the tropes of whatever previous genre is needed to reachieve the feeling which its originals invoked, as with even the earliest Cyberpunk being very self-referential about enjoying Jules Verne and H. G. Wells.

It feels kind of exploitative/orientalist to only use fake Chinese characters from Xu Bing's Book from the Sky for signs in the webcomic, so I'm thinking of using Serafinic and Voynich Manuscript text for signs and billboards as well.

Description

More Glaggle-like drawings for 2-III-C-Delta-Gimmel.

The images are fairly obviously referenced from Akira, Ghost in the Shell, and Final Fantasy VII; I was looking to Japanese Cyberpunk for these ones very heavily. The top image being partially inspired by the Kowloon Walled City in British Hong Kong goes without saying.

Which name should I go with for the Akira-like stadium; Blibble's Field or the Neo Baltimore Hyperdrome?

The formative books for Cyberpunk, such as Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep or Neuromancer, all have a noted dissonance within them, between settings which have decayed to the point of being completely wretched and an overly dinky, cutesy, infantilizing society which anesthetizes the objective state of regular unrest. More recent Cyberpunk is simply too up-its-own-rectum with tropes to hit that same sensation, which I'd like to resurrect.
Even Bladerunner had comically garish Business Casual clothes throughout. I want that kind of cognitive dissonance, that kind of double-bind, really, to come back. 2-III-C-Delta-Gimmel is largely too fantastical and Genre to fit into strict "Cyberpunk", being not especially focused on computers, having a Type II interstellar setting, lacking the presence of large megacorporations in favor of the more despotic kinds of singular plutocrats which we have today, etc. I wonder if there is an extant to which going beyond the tropes of whatever previous genre is needed to reachieve the feeling which its originals invoked, as with even the earliest Cyberpunk being very self-referential about enjoying Jules Verne and H. G. Wells.

It feels kind of exploitative/orientalist to only use fake Chinese characters from Xu Bing's Book from the Sky for signs in the webcomic, so I'm thinking of using Serafinic and Voynich Manuscript text for signs and billboards as well.