Top cybercrime agent Motoko Kusanagi has returned—or has she? Well, whoever “Motoko” is—or isn’t—she’s back on the job with Batou, protecting a comatose key witness from assassination, a killing designed to end the investigation of a case involving lethally defective micro machines. But the bad guys don’t only have little machines, they also have great big combat mecha perfectly capable of taking apart the hospital—not to mention Matoko and Batou—to terminate the target! Ghost in the Shell 1.5: Human-Error Processor presents for the first time in America the “lost” Ghost in the Shell stories, created by Shirow Masamune after completing work on the original Ghost in the Shell manga and prior to his tour-de-force, Ghost in the Shell 2: Man-Machine Interface. This deluxe-format issue concludes “Drive Slave,” the second of four Ghost in the Shell tales.