Reading Order

The books

1. Book One — Origin. The prophecy, the streets, Chairman Meow, the covenant, Yamada's training, the Red Gaze.
2. Book Two — Eight Suits. The revenge arc: the MacNasty's raid, the Suit kills one by one, Pier 9, Yamada's death, the bamboo mask.
3. Book Three — The Hard Out. The cosmic ending: the Krumb Singularity, the pager, the vanishing — and the date-night finale.
4. Recovered Fragments — Director's Cut. Found pages from another draft, functioning as an appendix. The issues after it are origins and spinoffs.

The Kindle book

The Absurd Allegorical Introduction of Grunge Daddy Ichiban: Redux is the early version of the original manuscript — the introduction, out now.

The zines

GRUNGEzhou Libellus — the zine series — is a separate timeline with its own canon. Same universe, different weather. Titles aren't supposed to match the Kindle book; that's deliberate. $44 a copy, 13+ issues a year, hand-to-hand and drops. Get on the list and you'll hear about every drop first.