The Ghost in the Shell: Global Neural Network: 6 Hardcover – Illustrated, 27 Nov. 2018

I"m a long time fan of Ghost in the Shell in its various forms, so I was looking forward to reading this. However, it wasn't as good as I anticipated. The artwork was all reasonable enough but none of it was startling, no fantastic new take on cyber-punk imagery. As for the writing, three of the stories were reasonably entertaining but again, nothing that I could really describe as memorable. There was also one story, not involving Major Motoko Kusanagi, that I thought was quite poor. The manga, the anime, the films have all had original elements to make you think, but I didn't really get much out of this. It's a competent enough comic but not much more than that.

Non Japanese artists were commissioned to provide their own interpretation of Shirow Masamune's Ghost In The Shell (GITS) universe. They provide a very kinetic take on the cyberpunk classic. The problem is in the depth and level of thinking that Masamune had around technology and its implications are severely lacking in this work. If you're a GITS fan let this pass you by along with the Hollywood film adaptation