APPLESEED DELUXE EDITION

Before Ghost in the Shell came Appleseed Shirow Masamune s visionary science fiction manga series now available in Dark Horse s acclaimed deluxe hardcover format featuring wrap around cover art full color end sheets ribbon bookmark and gilded edges The year is 2127 In the aftermath of a devastating global war Deunan and Briareos are just the kind of couple you d find managing to survive she s a former SWAT team member he s a cyborg former mercenary Both of them are found in the ruins by Hitomi a young woman who recruits them to work for Olympus an ultra advanced experimental city state that survived the apocalypse It s an oasis of peace that now seeks to step outside its protected zone to try to reconstruct the world but to do so its philosophers planners and scientists will need the support of people who know how to fight Olympus can offer them a new safe home and the chance to use the most advanced weapons tech on earth including the powered combat armor known as the Landmate And so Deunan and Briareos are drawn into the paradoxes and power struggles of Olympus their new job to serve and protect the people of a city whose secrets they know little about Protect them both from outsiders and from themselves for while Deunan and Briareos may belie