Dirty Pair - Comics

Comics

The American comic company and manga translator Studio Proteus acquired rights to create comic versions of The Dirty Pair in 1989; the first two graphic novels were published by the since-defunct Eclipse Comics. Later the rights were transferred to Dark Horse Comics. The first three series were written by Toren Smith and Adam Warren and drawn by Warren—after that Smith left the project and Warren took over writing completely. These stories have a much more cyberpunk style than the other versions; the later stories, starting with Fatal but not Serious, move into the transhuman subgenre.

• Biohazards: four issues, December 1988–April 1989 (trade paperback TPB, 1989; 1998, reissue)
• Dangerous Acquaintances: five issues, June 1989–March 1990 (TPB, 1991; 1997, reissue)
• A Plague of Angels: five issues, August 1990–November 1991 (TPB, 1994)
• Sim Hell: four issues, May–August 1993; colorized reissue, May–August 2001 (TPB, 1994; 1996, second edition; 2002, colorized reissue)
• "I Honestly Hate You": eight-page short story originally published in August 1994 in the (annual) San Diego ComicCon Comics, #3 (reprinted in 1998 Dark Horse Comics reprinted TPB of Biohazards)
• Fatal But Not Serious: five issues, July–November 1995 (TPB, 1996)
• Start the Violence: one-shot, May–July 1998 (TPB, 1999; also included in Run from the Future TPB)
• Run From The Future: four issues, January–April 2000 (TPB, 2002)
• "A Big 'Merci Beaucoup'".: six single pages originally published May–August 2001 in the back of each colorized reissue of Sim Hell, also in the back of the colorized Sim Hell TPB reissue (2002).