
The focus is here on resistance to the casually cruel authorities, and on Kabuki's first real friendship (though there's a worry that her friend is imaginary).Īnd the latest volume focusses on one of the other Noh superheroines, Scarab, and her rise from teenage rebellion and tragicomic involvement with the Yakuza.

The next two volumes show Kabuki imprisoned in a mental hospital for damaged security agents, ending in a raid- her former Noh colleagues break in, not to rescue her but to kill her.

It's told in a series of full-color paintings and collages the text is spare and tortured and poetic. 2 to die some more, mostly dreaming about her mother. 1 Kabuki was nearly dead she takes all of Vol. To start with, the pace has slowed to a crawl.

This has developed in astonishing ways from its first, fast and furious volume. Time to go back to a few titles I've reviewed before that have gone and changed themselves or otherwise require more comment.
