Viz Media is set to kick off a new manga series called Lynx. Not only is Lynx billed as a neo-noir mash-up of Blade Runner and Pluto, it even features a detective heroine with a talking, crime-fighting cat for a partner. What’s not to love?
With Lynx Vol. 1 now in stores, IGN can exclusively debut a new preview of the book. Check it out in the slideshow gallery below:
Lynx is written by Samuel Sattin (Buzzing) and illustrated by tokitokoro (Jeff the Land Shark). Here’s the official summary of the first volume:
Lynx Takuma is standing still. As a bio-enhanced detective in New Borealis, one of the last habitable cities after worldwide climate disaster, Lynx knows what she’s meant to do: break up crime syndicates, track down rogue Qual technology, and keep the peace alongside her reckless-but-trusty partner Task and her crime-fighting talking cat Skua. But ever since Simone…
Well, she’s not thinking about Simone. Or about anything beyond getting through the next day, and the next, and the next…
Until, while on the trail of a series of grisly murders, Lynx sees something impossible that turns her world upside down—something that looks like an angel…
Lynx Vol. 1 is available in stores now. You can order a copy on Amazon.
Sattin is also the writer behind the Unico series, which reboots a classic Osamu Tezuka property for a modern audience. For more manga fun, be sure to check out the most terrifying manga by Juni Ito.
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