Dragon Head 5
Posted: March 3, 2007 Filed under: Dragon Head Leave a comment »I didn’t want to burn myself out on too much W Juliet, so I decided to read something that was the polar opposite to break up the monotony. You see, it doesn’t get much different than W Juliet and Dragon Head.
Dragon Head continues to be pretty amazing. In this volume, the quest is for gas for the helicopter and finding some medical help for Teru, who is in bad shape. After a mishap, they wind up on the Izu peninsula and find that few places were untouched. A woman helps them out and fills them in on her side of the story, and we learn a bit more about what may have caused the disaster (my bet is still on a bomb of some sort). Ako and the crazy DF guy go out to a nearby town to try and get some medicine for Teru.
On the way, they meet the DRAGON HEAD.
I didn’t like this volume quite as much as others because there was a lot less action, but to be able to still wow me with a volume of dialogue mostly discussing the nature of fear is awesome. Plus, at the end there is another massive battle that warms up and makes a bit of a cliffhanger. I think the thing that makes this series fantastic is the unknown. This makes the fear discussion here quite appropriate, most series don’t get you to understand the character’s fear as much as this one does. See, we don’t know what caused the world to end. We often don’t know what the characters are up against. We don’t know what that cloud of ash is, we don’t know if that old lady has something up her sleeve, and we don’t know who this group of crazies is that’s attacking Ako. We also still don’t know what the Dragon Head is capable of, either.
FANTASTIC.
