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The novel follows Hector Holmes, a disgraced former investigator turned eJunky, who after a near-fatal overdose of Torch is recruited by a task force from the global corporate authority (the “World Corporation Organization,” W.C.O.) to infiltrate and stop a cult-like group called The Guardians of Pain the black-market distributors of Torch. |
The novel follows Hector Holmes, a disgraced former investigator turned eJunky, who after a near-fatal overdose of Torch is recruited by a task force from the global corporate authority (the “World Corporation Organization,” W.C.O.) to infiltrate and stop a cult-like group called The Guardians of Pain the black-market distributors of Torch. |
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As Hector dives deeper into the underworld of illicit memories, he enlists the help of a “dream celebrity” named Astra. Together, they navigate a stark divide between sanitized reality and raw human experience a journey that questions the price of erasing pain, the value of memory, and the nature of humanity itself.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Guy |first=The Comic |date=2023-11-25 |title=eJUNKY Vol. 1 (TPB) (2023) |url=https://getcomics.org/other-comics/ejunky-vol-1-tpb-2023/ |access-date=2025-12-10 |website=GetComics |language=en-US}}</ref> |
As Hector dives deeper into the underworld of illicit memories, he enlists the help of a “dream celebrity” named Astra. Together, they navigate a stark divide between sanitized reality and raw human experience a journey that questions the price of erasing pain, the value of memory, and the nature of humanity itself.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Guy |first=The Comic |date=2023-11-25 |title=eJUNKY Vol. 1 (TPB) (2023) |url=https://getcomics.org/other-comics/ejunky-vol-1-tpb-2023/ |access-date=2025-12-10 |website=GetComics |language=en-US}}</ref> |
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eJunky is a 2023 science fiction noir graphic novel by American author Nicholas Tana, with artwork by Kyle Faehnrich. It is published by Scout Comic and collected in a trade paperback edition distributed by Simon & Schuster.[1][2][3][4]
Set in a dystopian 2055, eJunky portrays a world where advanced neural and emotional-regulation technologies — nerve-reading devices (N.R.D.s) and “Emo-Regs” have rendered pain and suffering virtually obsolete and controlled.
In this society, a clandestine group of addicts known as “eJunkies” seek unfiltered experience including pain by using a forbidden memory-drug called “Torch,” which allows users to relive other people’s memories, including traumatic ones.
The novel follows Hector Holmes, a disgraced former investigator turned eJunky, who after a near-fatal overdose of Torch is recruited by a task force from the global corporate authority (the “World Corporation Organization,” W.C.O.) to infiltrate and stop a cult-like group called The Guardians of Pain the black-market distributors of Torch.
As Hector dives deeper into the underworld of illicit memories, he enlists the help of a “dream celebrity” named Astra. Together, they navigate a stark divide between sanitized reality and raw human experience a journey that questions the price of erasing pain, the value of memory, and the nature of humanity itself.[5][6][7][8][9][10]
