Dragon Head 8
Posted: November 27, 2007 Filed under: Dragon Head Leave a comment »There is just nothing quite like Dragon Head. The thing that gets me about it time and time again is that it tells its story almost entirely through images. There is no explanation given for what’s going on to the characters, so the reader only knows what the characters see of a situation, and the characters have no explanation for pillars of fire jetting up into the air. The art is quite good, as it would have to be, and the atmosphere’s incredible. You can feel the rotten mud as the characters wade through the mess in this volume.
Here, a storm kicks up that starts with an earthquake, continues with the pillar of fire I mentioned, and goes on with rain, mudslides, and a tornado. Teru gets separated from the group, so a large part of the volume is spent in near-silence as Teru simply survives for page after page. It’s pretty incredible.
I don’t really want to say much more about it since it would kind of spoil things (not that much happens), but yes, it’s still great.
