Is it just your nostalgia, or is the world getting worse?

Your memories are being revised. Your life is getting a remaster. Welcome to the Retro-World of ReMaster Monk, the new manga-inspired comic written and illustrated by Levi.


The Story

After a great sickness changed the world, wannabe-samurai Tycho leaves CD City to find distraction from the static thoughts that plague his mind. He stumbles upon a penguin detective named Phillip R. Phlop (pronounced Flipper Flop) and his bear companion/spiritual advisor, Waylon, who offer Tycho just what he needs: adventure.

Tycho joins the Mind’s Eye Detective Agency and sets about helping solving a case of missing villages. They soon find the misplaced townspeople enthralled to Dark Stones that emit strange visions and the towns themselves remade by a bizarre army of Bots and Bosses called  ReMaster Corp.

“We gave them what they wanted: distraction.”

Caught by the corporation, Tycho, Phlop, and Waylon are indoctrinated into one of the remastered towns and given Dark Stones to keep them distracted from their true reality. As ReMaster Corp grows in power and the Mind’s Eye forgets more and more of who they are, their only salvation lies in a quiet Monk who once worked for the corporation…

…The ReMaster Monk.


The Players


Tycho, struggling with intrusive thoughts and dissociation, has been on a journey into the wild to distract himself from his suffering. He uses a walkman and headphones to stay calm and focused when his symptoms manifest. He hopes to return to CD City one day, cured of his sickness.



Penguin detective Philip R. Phlop and his spiritual advisor, the bear Waylon, make up the Mind’s Eye Detective Agency. The Agency investigates psychological mysteries and crimes in an attempt to restore mental health to a troubled land still recovering from the Great Sickness. Phlop provides the brains; Waylon provides the heart.


Monk guards the First Station, a dilapidated castle on the borders of land now colonized by the ReMaster Corp. He was once a young musician whose work was “ReMastered” until he turned against the Corp and was exiled. When he sees their renewed expansion, he investigates, crossing paths with Tycho, Phlop, and Waylon.

The ReMaster Corp is a devious marketing firm made up of cardboard “Bots”, artificial “Influencers”, and mysterious static lifeform “Bosses”. They use disruptive technology to weaponize nostalgia and take advantage of traumatized populations, then sell their culture to the highest bidder.