Akira #1

Katsuhiro Otomo's sprawling cyberpunk saga arrives in this handsome Graphitti Designs hardcover edition, collecting the opening chapter of one of manga's most ambitious works. The cover places us in an atmosphere of urban tension: a young man in a striped shirt levels a pistol while another crouches amid scattered debris and what appears to be a fallen, eerily distorted figure on a blood-red ground — all rendered in Otomo's razor-sharp linework with striking pink and blue tones. Volume 1 of this 1990 edition is a substantial, beautifully produced package that makes a compelling entry point into Neo-Tokyo and everything waiting within it.