“And then it just became fun from there,” Krueger said. Krueger, who’s worked for DC and Marvel, said he initially expected just to give Bilyeu an overview of the comic industry.
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He eventually pitched the idea of creating a comic book world around Aoki’s “Neon Future” album series and then met with award-winning comic writer Jim Krueger to help bring their ideas to life. “And I just thought that was so incredible, and I have a personal obsession with the possibility of living forever.” “I realized that in real life he plans to be cryogenically frozen when he dies,” Bilyeu said. Imagine if Steve Aoki were cast as this character Kita Sovee.”īilyeu was doing research and preparing to interview Aoki for a web series in 2017 when he realized Aoki shared his sense of “techno-optimism” and concluded Aoki might be the perfect partner. “They did not want to be beholden to Steve’s image as a person, the way that people think about him,” Bilyeu said. The top priority was creating a story that would appeal to comic fans. Founder and CEO Tom Bilyeu said Aoki and his team were clear that they didn’t want a series about a fictionalized version of Aoki going on adventures in some high-tech fantasy world or a marketing tool to promote his musical career. “Neon Future” is the first comic series produced by Impact Theory. “Before I was a science fiction guy, I was a comic book guy. “I’m obsessed with future science technologies,” Aoki said. He was also a huge fan of Japanese animated films like “Ghost in the Shell,” and even joined an anime club in college. “Before I got into music even, comics were my go-to,” Aoki said. “A piece that can paint the picture of what the Neon Future really means.”Īoki said he grew up reading Marvel comics, like Punisher, Wolverine, X-Men and Spider-Man. “Neon Future as a concept deserved an illustrative storytelling piece,” Aoki said.
He’s used it in the title of three of his five studio albums, with “Neon Future” IV set to release later this year. “He’s the kind of the character that I would strive to become,” Aoki said.Īoki came up with the term Neon Future in 2014. With two sides at war, Kita Sovee fights for a third way – a path of coexistence. We will become cyborg beings where we can have superhuman qualities with the technology.”Īoki said he liked the idea of having a character in the comic who’s loosely based on him but not the primary protagonist. “I believe that at the end of the day, we will all become the robots. “I believe that technology will merge with us,” Aoki said. The series follows an anti-tech crusader who dies and is resurrected by a technology developed by Aoki’s character. The resistance movement, Neon Future, is led by a long-haired, bearded, Asian-American man named Kita Sovee – whose name happens to be an anagram of Steve Aoki. A civil war is brewing between people who have integrated technology into their bodies and those who have not. “Neon Future “ is set about 30 years from now in a United States that has outlawed advanced technology. But in this case, we are going to become augmented. “The robots are going to make us their slaves, or the human species is going to be exterminated by technology. “A general plot is that technology is destroying humanity,” Aoki said. MIAMI – Forget the dystopian future of science fiction stories, where Skynet endoskeletons stomp on dry human bones or people slumbering in fluid-filled pods serve as living batteries.Įlectronic music producer and DJ Steve Aoki imagines a future where humans live in harmony with technology, and he’s sharing that vision in a new comic book series called “Neon Future.”Īlthough science fiction narratives commonly depict cybernetic machines turning on their human masters, as in “The Terminator” or “The Matrix,” Aoki doesn’t buy it.
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