Baoh 2
Posted: March 12, 2007 Filed under: Baoh Leave a comment »The ending to this story was actually a lot better, as it was a long, continuous action sequence where the little girl was kidnapped and Baoh penetrates the Judas organization, fighting the ultimate psychic warrior along the way in order to ensure the little girl’s safety.
The violence is still what did it for me here, though. There was a character who gets his head sliced in half on two separate occasions. There’s a cyborg who gets most of his skin melted off and his brains shot out of his head. There’s much melting going on. At one point, Baoh severs his own limb, then reattaches it. Oh, also, did I mention he hangs out inside a giant acid-neutralizing spider for awhile until danger has passed? Yeah, that’s how this volume goes.
This series still isn’t very good, but the entire second volume reads like an epic, insane climax to a James Bond movie if James Bond were a bio-beast of some sort. The narration continues, but the boy is now conscious when he turns into Baoh, so a lot more of the dialogue is his. Brain parasites are not mentioned, unfortunately.
Amidst all the action, there’s also a rather touching love story between the orphan boy and girl. The ending was quite sweet, too. The ending is not what you’ll remember though. What you’ll remember is the Earth’s ultimate psychic warrior going on an insane, unhibited rampage where he just melts scientist after scientist.
