Wrong city, Wrong people.
Cyberpunk 2077 is a line of comic books produced by Dark Horse Comics set in the world of Cyberpunk 2077 and CD Projekt RED. It is a spin-off of Mike Pondsmith's Cyberpunk world. The comic books are all set in Night City, a California metropolis that is independent of the rest of the United States after a general collapse of society.
The books typically follow one or more Edgerunners or cyberpunks that are Street Samurai mercs working to make a profit in the city's Underworld. They are typically tragic in their stories, ending with the dream of profit or fame being illusionary.
Despite being a spin-off of the media game, they usually star completely new casts and characters and have very little crossover.
- The World of Cyberpunk 2077 (art book)
- Cyberpunk 2077: Trauma Team (2020)
- Cyberpunk 2077: Where's Johnny? (2021)
- Cyberpunk 2077: Your Voice (2021)
- Cyberpunk 2077: You Have My Word (2021-2022)
- Cyberpunk 2077: Big City Dreams (2022)
- Cyberpunk 2077: Blackout (2022)
- Cyberpunk 2077: XOXO (2023)
- Cyberpunk 2077: Ten of Swords (2023)
This series contains the following tropes:
- Apathetic Citizens: The citizens of Night City don't care about the apocalyptic levels of violence in their hometown or mass poverty. They're only interested in their next braindance.
- Black-and-Gray Morality: Virtually all of the protagonists are criminals and murderers themselves but they're often up against even worse people.
- Capitalism Is Bad: The motivation for a large chunk of the cast, heroes and villain, is the grinding poverty and materialism of Night City.
- City of Adventure: Night City is a violent, garish, and stylized world with constant shoot outs as well as criminal plots going on at any given time.
- Corrupt Corporate Executive: As per usual in cyberpunk, Arasaka and Militech along with virtually every other corporate executive is scummy with no regard for their customers.
- Crapsaccharine World: Night City is beautiful and full of amazing neon vistas as well as fantastic technology but it is a full of poverty as well as casual violence with most individuals dying unmourned and forgotten.
- Cyberpunk: The comics all show a world with fantastic technology and advanced cybernetics with corrupt corporations as well as grinding poverty. Crime is the only way that the majority of people can escape it but even this is largely a lie.
- Downer Ending: A large chunk of the stories end with the protagonists dead, defeated, or heartbroken with no sign the city will ever change even in the slightest.
- Hero of Another Story: All of the protagonists are either other Edgerunners or corporate employees different from V or the main characters from Cyberpunk.
- The Hero Dies: Trauma Team, You have My Word, and Big City Dreams all end with the deaths of their protagonists.
- I Coulda Been a Contender!: Many Edgerunners only care about their reputation and wealth with no real plan of what to do beyond making it big (and most never do).
- New Media Are Evil: A great deal of attention is paid to the fact that braindances are a substitute to the masses for actually living decent lives.
- Street Samurai: Edgerunners are criminals operating in Night City as independent mercenaries, working for no one but themselves.
