Drugs & Wires (http://www.drugsandwires.fail/)
By Cryoclaire and Io Black
Genre: Cyberpunk
Pages: ~90

[Original Review from 2015]
So. This is pretty much the best thing I’ve read in a good long while.

Went and opted to read the Dreamspace items too, which are very unique and by the by a little seizure warning to anyone else who wants to read them. But it is, altogether, a very solid cyberpunk entry in a genre that is often lacking in using its devices properly. The art is great, the story hits some good comedy alongside some amazing effects, and it is generally the best thing I’ve looked at in some time.

Now that I’m done tugging Drugs & Wires off, lets delve into it. This is the story of Dan, twenty minutes into the future style in a very dystopian 1995 with a synthwave sort of appeal. The aesthetic isn’t the sleek fancy type you see nowadays, and it isn’t Bladerunner by any means. Drugs & Wires exists in a world where people became escapists and seemingly stopped caring as the world fell to pieces around them. The government is imposing new fines and penalties on cyber-junkies, they’re using wild dogs to curb the homeless population, and anything on the brighter side of morality feels like it got hit with a baseball bat in the back of the head. The world may not have fallen into true dystopian Children of Man/RoboCop decay; but it has the look of a house nobody has fixed up or mowed the lawn for in the past several month.

And I love it.