Cyberpunx

''Cyberpunx'' is a

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series produced by

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. It is about a group of cyborg computer hacker warriors that enter into a

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in order to stop an alien invasion by the Cyberlords. As a

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Cyberpunk Cyberpunk is a subgenre of science fiction in a dystopian futuristic setting that tends to focus on a "combination of lowlife and high tech", featuring futuristic technological and scientific achievements, such as artificial intelligence and cyber ...

author

William Gibson William Ford Gibson (born March 17, 1948) is an American-Canadian speculative fiction writer and essayist widely credited with pioneering the science fiction subgenre known as ''cyberpunk''. Beginning his writing career in the late 1970s, his ...

, the leading computer scientist in the story is named Karl Gibson. The first issue came out in March 1996. The creator of the series is Rob Liefeld; the script is by Robert Loren Fleming and the artwork is by Ching Lau. Image Comics titles {{Image-Comics-stub