Lone Wolf 2100: Chase the Setting Sun
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- USD 4.99
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- USD 4.99
Publisher Description
A violent reimagining of the classic assassin-and-child story by the writer of the acclaimed film Arrival!
AD 2100: The world has been devastated by a manmade plague. Young Daisy Ogami is infected but unaffected--naturally immune. In her blood can be found a cure that will save humanity. But the remaining world powers are concerned less with preserving humanity and more with being the first nation to return to power. Unfortunately for them, Daisy has a protector . . . a loyal android named Itto.
In a violent reimagining of the classic assassin-and-child story of Kazuo Koike and Goseki Kojima's Lone Wolf and Cub, Itto and Daisy set out across the Plague Lands, looking for a way to save the world while pursued by plague victims, ruthless mercenaries, and the armored soldiers of dying nations. Pity those who catch up with them . . .
Collects Lone Wolf 2100: Chase the Setting Sun 1-4.
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The Lone Wolf and Cub manga franchise returns with an all-new, self-contained title: a futuristic reimagining by American screenwriter and director Heisserer (Final Destination 5), artist Sepulveda (Stormwatch), and colorist Mena . In an apocalyptic world, where a virus has turned a majority of humankind into goblin-like monsters, everyone wants a piece of Daisy Ogami, a girl with immunity, from whom a cure can be created. Itto, her protector, goes through many explosive fight scenes and tragic backstories to keep her alive protecting her not from goblins, but from the leaders of the world's hobbled governments. Unfortunately, they're are lost in the political implications of the cure rather than the humanitarian one, and Itto spends much of the book making arguments about this as he tries to get his charge from Chicago to the safe haven of Japan. The coloring is impressive but can't fix the stilted art; the narrative delivers some important points but also feels like it's just going through the motions.
