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MW
MW
Tezuka Osamu (Tezuka Osamu)
SKU: VV1630752 ISBN: 9781934287729 Pages: 584 Paperback year: 2010 Publicher: Random House (USA) (Random House (USA)) Price: $106.70 ship 24-25
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| Comics god Osamu Tezuka's darkest work, MW is a chilling picaresque of evil. Steering clear of the supernatural as well as the cuddly designs and slapstick humor that enliven many of Tezuka's better-known works, MW explores a stark modern reality where neither divine nor secular justice seems to prevail. This willfully «anti-Tezuka» achievement from the master's own pen nevertheless pulsates with his unique genius.Michio Yuki has it all: looks, intelligence, a pedigree as the scion of a famous Kabuki family, a promising career at a major bank, legions of female admirers. But underneath the sheen of perfection lurks a secret with the power to shake the world to its foundations. During a boyhood excursion to one of the southern archipelagos near Okinawa, Yuki barely survived exposure to a poison gas stored at a foreign military facility. The leakage annihilated all of the island's inhabitants but was promptly covered up by the authorities, leaving Yuki as an unacknowledged witnes |