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They scattered to the dead zone.
The Panopticon is still hunting.
And someone in the cell is lying.

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Ghost in
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The Panopticon is hunting them. The city is watching. A ghost in the signal knows more about NORTH STAR than anyone should. 28 pages.

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The First Breach
Issue #01

A cryptographer. A fired detective. A teenage drone pilot. A voice no one has seen. They built the cage. Now they're opening it.

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// The Architect
Maddie Quinn

Built the Panopticon's encryption core. Knows every backdoor because she left them there.

// Identity Redacted
Sloth

Anonymous hacktivist. Communicates only through encrypted channels. Whether friend or liability is still an open question.

// The Detective
Wes Calder

Fired for refusing predictive policing. The last cop who still believed in evidence.

// Off-Grid Signal
Kite

Teenage drone pilot and hardware prodigy. Lives where the surveillance ends.

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► Issue #02 — Now Available — May 2026

The team retreats. Old wounds surface. And a ghost in the signal knows more about NORTH STAR than anyone should. 28 pages.

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The First Breach

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A cryptographer who built the cage. A fired detective. A teenage drone pilot. A voice no one has seen. The beginning of everything.

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Series

{C¥ⱣHΞR₱U₦K} is an independent tech-noir comic series with hybrid AI art images born from the mind's eye, rendered by machine, and finished with a human touch. Set in a near-future city where a public/private corporation called the Panopticon has built total surveillance infrastructure into the urban grid — every camera, every sensor, every transaction logged and scored.

The story begins when Maddie Quinn, the cryptographer who designed the system's core encryption, decides she's seen enough. Armed with knowledge of every backdoor she quietly left in the code, she begins reaching out to three strangers: a fired detective, a teenage drone pilot, and a voice no one has ever seen.

It's a story about what surveillance costs, who gets to decide what freedom looks like, and what ordinary people are willing to risk to get it back.

"Every surveillance system has a blind spot. They forgot that the woman who designed theirs still remembers where she put it."

— Maddie Quinn, Issue #01, Page 3
Series Info
Genre
Cyber Noir
Format
Bi-Monthly
Publisher
Void/Signal Press
Issues Out
02 of ??

► Operative Dossier

// The Architect
Maddie Quinn
Cryptographer — Former Panopticon Core Engineer

A brilliant but disillusioned cryptographer who once helped build the Panopticon's encryption core. She didn't just design the locks — she made sure to leave the doors. Now she regrets everything she built, and she's doing something about it.

// Identity Redacted
Sloth
Anonymous Hacktivist — Unknown Affiliation

An anonymous hacktivist whose voice is always distorted and whose identity is unknown — even to the team. Sloth communicates only through encrypted channels and seems to know things no one else does. Whether friend or liability is still an open question.

// The Detective
Wes Calder
Former Detective — Discharged, City Police Dept.

A former detective fired for refusing to use predictive policing algorithms. Wes still believes in building a case the old way — physical evidence, witness testimony, shoe leather. In a city run on data, that makes him a liability. And an asset.

// Off-Grid Signal
Kite
Drone Pilot — Hardware Prodigy, Off-Grid

A teenage drone pilot and hardware prodigy who lives entirely off-grid in the dead zones where the Panopticon's sensors don't reach. Kite builds everything from salvage and can fly a custom rig through a gap you couldn't throw a baseball through.

► Returning operatives from Issue #01 plus new additions in Issue #02.
// The Shadow Key
Livy Quinn
Fraternal Twin — Maddie Quinn's Sister

Maddie's fraternal twin and the one person who knew exactly what was being built — and stayed quiet. Where Maddie designed the locks, Livy understood the politics that made them inevitable. She's been living in Maddie's blind spot ever since, and Issue #02 asks why.

// Encrypted Transmission
O
Disembodied Broadcast — Origin Unknown

Not a person. Not quite a signal. O is an encrypted transmission that appears without invitation and vanishes before it can be traced. It knows NORTH STAR exists. It knows things about the team that no external source should. Whether O is an ally, a threat, or something the Panopticon built and lost control of is the question Issue #02 refuses to answer cleanly.

// The Hunter
Rhys Holt
Field Commander — Panopticon Enforcement Division

The Panopticon's assigned field commander on the {C¥ⱣHΞR₱U₦K} case. Holt is not a bureaucrat — he's operational, methodical, and has been doing this long enough to stop believing the system he serves is clean. He follows orders because the alternative is chaos, and he's seen what chaos looks like. He's also starting to notice that someone above him is feeding him incomplete intelligence.

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