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Terror Man Vol 1
Jungwoo Min has a special ability, one that lets him see when a path leads to a misfortune, or disaster. He uses his "Eyes of Misfortune” to spot these unfortunate events and stop them. Disguising himself as a terrorist, he begins using his power to save people from certain danger. This leads him to become feared by the people he is looking to save. Soon he discovers that the more he saves others, the unhappier he becomes. Thus unfolds the story of a hero and his struggle between happiness and despair. And the unfortunate reality of saving the world, even while becoming a supposed terrorist...or TERROR MAN.
300 pages, Paperback
First published June 27, 2023
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April 7, 2023
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Title: Terror Man Vol 1 by Dongwoo Han
Genre: Manga, Action
Rating: 5 Stars
I requested this because the synopsis sounded interesting and I’m always on the lookout for new manga to read. Terror Man follows Jungwoo Min who has a superpower called Eyes of Misfortune. His eyes always him to see outcomes to events that will cause misfortune to him and the first time he activated it was in a landslide that killed his mother. After that his father brought a woman back from Russia called Lilia to be a housekeeper and undercover bodyguard for his son but he doesn’t find this out until much later.
In the opening scene of the manga we see a terrorist threatening to blow up a bridge but we then jump back two years. At this time Jungwoo is using his powers for small things like cheating on exams and winning games that other students gamble on. One day he and Lilia go shopping and Jungwoo sees the purple mist that means misfortune covering the entire department store and he realises it is going to collapse but no one will listen to him and evacuate. Lilia ends up calling her friend to help them out and they become pretend terrorists claiming they have planted a bomb to get people to evacuate and it works before the building collapses. During the collapse, Jungwoo uses his power to save a reporter even though it isn’t what a terrorist would do.
Jungwoo tries to back to normal after the store collapse but he ends up on a bridge after a car accident and helps save a woman and her child before the purple mist appears. With Lilia’s help they realise a real terrorist was planning to blow up the bridge and Jungwoo uses his role as a terrorist to clear the bridge making sure no one dies. In the aftermath he ends up meeting the real terrorist and is attacked and shot before Lilia arrives to save the day, beating up the real terrorist but the police arrive and they have to make their escape before they can deal with him.
However, during this time Jungwoo realises that this man has the same tattoo as a woman that attended his mother’s funeral and he realises that the landslide wasn’t a natural occurrence after all and he is determined to find and stop this terrorist organisation and learn the truth of why his mother was murdered in the first place. Towards the end of the volume Lilia’s friend who is hiding with them because he was the only one of the three identified by the police ends up taking the reporter from the department store hostage because he thought she was the delivery man. Jungwoo explains his ability to her and why he has been posing as the terrorist which is proves to her as they head to Lilia’s location as she has gone after the real terrorist and is in danger.
Overall, I really liked this opening volume to Terror Man and I definitely will be continuing with it. If you’re looking for an action packed series, with great characters and a fast moving plot then I’d highly recommend checking this one out and I hope it has or will get an anime adaptation in the future.
Title: Terror Man Vol 1 by Dongwoo Han
Genre: Manga, Action
Rating: 5 Stars
I requested this because the synopsis sounded interesting and I’m always on the lookout for new manga to read. Terror Man follows Jungwoo Min who has a superpower called Eyes of Misfortune. His eyes always him to see outcomes to events that will cause misfortune to him and the first time he activated it was in a landslide that killed his mother. After that his father brought a woman back from Russia called Lilia to be a housekeeper and undercover bodyguard for his son but he doesn’t find this out until much later.
In the opening scene of the manga we see a terrorist threatening to blow up a bridge but we then jump back two years. At this time Jungwoo is using his powers for small things like cheating on exams and winning games that other students gamble on. One day he and Lilia go shopping and Jungwoo sees the purple mist that means misfortune covering the entire department store and he realises it is going to collapse but no one will listen to him and evacuate. Lilia ends up calling her friend to help them out and they become pretend terrorists claiming they have planted a bomb to get people to evacuate and it works before the building collapses. During the collapse, Jungwoo uses his power to save a reporter even though it isn’t what a terrorist would do.
Jungwoo tries to back to normal after the store collapse but he ends up on a bridge after a car accident and helps save a woman and her child before the purple mist appears. With Lilia’s help they realise a real terrorist was planning to blow up the bridge and Jungwoo uses his role as a terrorist to clear the bridge making sure no one dies. In the aftermath he ends up meeting the real terrorist and is attacked and shot before Lilia arrives to save the day, beating up the real terrorist but the police arrive and they have to make their escape before they can deal with him.
However, during this time Jungwoo realises that this man has the same tattoo as a woman that attended his mother’s funeral and he realises that the landslide wasn’t a natural occurrence after all and he is determined to find and stop this terrorist organisation and learn the truth of why his mother was murdered in the first place. Towards the end of the volume Lilia’s friend who is hiding with them because he was the only one of the three identified by the police ends up taking the reporter from the department store hostage because he thought she was the delivery man. Jungwoo explains his ability to her and why he has been posing as the terrorist which is proves to her as they head to Lilia’s location as she has gone after the real terrorist and is in danger.
Overall, I really liked this opening volume to Terror Man and I definitely will be continuing with it. If you’re looking for an action packed series, with great characters and a fast moving plot then I’d highly recommend checking this one out and I hope it has or will get an anime adaptation in the future.
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June 12, 2023
This was sort of over the top and yet not enough so for me to be able to accept the premise that a schoolboy becomes a terrorist to save people. Jungwoo can see misfortune and when a particularly bad one threatens hundreds of people, he tries to warn them, only no one believes him. So his Russian nanny, who clearly has an evil superpower which isn’t revealed here, comes up with a plan to fake a terror attack to make the people flee. She even has weapons ready for it. When this happens twice in a row, the government starts a manhunt, but Jungwoo and his nanny are hunting the real terrorist.
Jungwoo was kind of a pitiful character who did what others told him to do, which his nanny took a full advantage of. It isn’t clear after the first volume if she’s evil or some sort of government agent. Mostly she’s there for the male gaze. Side characters remained vague.
The volume starts with a prologue that gives a glimpse to Jungwoo’s future, where he seems to have become a terrorist for real, so readers have that to look forward to. It ends with a cliffhanger.
Illustrations are full-colour, which makes Jungwoo’s ability to pop, with some b&w in the mix. But the panels were too small at times and the layout was messy, making it annoying to read. I found myself skimming several pages.
I received a free copy from Edelweiss in exchange for an honest review.
Jungwoo was kind of a pitiful character who did what others told him to do, which his nanny took a full advantage of. It isn’t clear after the first volume if she’s evil or some sort of government agent. Mostly she’s there for the male gaze. Side characters remained vague.
The volume starts with a prologue that gives a glimpse to Jungwoo’s future, where he seems to have become a terrorist for real, so readers have that to look forward to. It ends with a cliffhanger.
Illustrations are full-colour, which makes Jungwoo’s ability to pop, with some b&w in the mix. But the panels were too small at times and the layout was messy, making it annoying to read. I found myself skimming several pages.
I received a free copy from Edelweiss in exchange for an honest review.
May 27, 2024
Fantastic anti-hero story
March 15, 2024
Jungwoo is a special kind of simpleton. He doesn't mind pushing through in the face of brash decision making and uneven odds, because they lend color to an otherwise staid, monochromatic culture. He doesn't think too hard about greed, violence, and propaganda, because they're merely endemic dangers to an otherwise boring and corrupt, adult world. And he doesn't wield his supernatural ability to detect danger or misfortune beyond cheap games among classmates, because why bother? Life sucks.
And that's the hook. Life sucks. Jungwoo lost his mother in a tragedy when he was young, he lives under the sharp eye of a super-kind (but also kinda lethal) live-in housekeeper who speaks Russian, and he keeps finding himself in increasingly untenable situations . . . so, why not become history's greatest terrorist?
TERROR MAN v1 is dumb fun. In practical terms, nothing about this comic book should work, and yet, the more of it one reads, the more of it one rationalizes as reductively plausible. Jungwoo spontaneously takes up the mantle of some anonymous "Terror Man" to convince innocent civilians to evacuate public spaces subject to an unseen, immediate, and horrific danger. As it turns out, sensing large-scale misfortunes, and convincing strangers to heed warnings about them, are two completely different superpowers, as it were.
And that's the other hook. Alerting the public to danger as a fake terrorist invariably means butting heads with actual, dyed-in-the-wool extremists. Whoops.
TERROR MAN v1 is a good example of an indie web comic that didn't succumb too earnestly to the vertical scroll format and whose creative team learned and adapted on the fly. It's easy to criticize the awkward page composition, inconsistent spot colors, and exaggerated inlaid text effects. But to the creative team's credit, by the volume's third or fourth episode, the wrinkles are ironed flat almost entirely: the dialogue is more measured; the action and sound effects are more sparing; the character motivations are clearer; and readers feel genuinely invested in the danger on the page.
Jungwoo's ham-fisted actions feel completely chaotic and impromptu, and by extension, wholly entertaining when one considers he's just a lazy high-school kid trying to save a few random folks in a shopping mall. Good thing Lilia, his live-in housekeeper, has several years' experience as what one presumes to be a special agent of some kind. (Is Lilia more of a bodyguard than a maid? That would explain why she can't cook worth a damn.) And then there's the pseudonymous Bongchun, delightfully tech savvy, but also a loudmouth dingus, who tags along for the ride because he's bored (and is wanted internationally).
Saving the world by pretending to tear it down, TERROR MAN v1 tells the tale of reverse-superheroism, which more kids dream about than not, only to quickly turn that dream into a nightmare when darker forces arrive on the scene. Apparently, Jungwoo and the gang have more to worry about than unstable urban infrastructure. Corrupt cops? Crime bosses? More and more rises from the shadows. The story of this one young terrorist is just beginning.
And that's the hook. Life sucks. Jungwoo lost his mother in a tragedy when he was young, he lives under the sharp eye of a super-kind (but also kinda lethal) live-in housekeeper who speaks Russian, and he keeps finding himself in increasingly untenable situations . . . so, why not become history's greatest terrorist?
TERROR MAN v1 is dumb fun. In practical terms, nothing about this comic book should work, and yet, the more of it one reads, the more of it one rationalizes as reductively plausible. Jungwoo spontaneously takes up the mantle of some anonymous "Terror Man" to convince innocent civilians to evacuate public spaces subject to an unseen, immediate, and horrific danger. As it turns out, sensing large-scale misfortunes, and convincing strangers to heed warnings about them, are two completely different superpowers, as it were.
And that's the other hook. Alerting the public to danger as a fake terrorist invariably means butting heads with actual, dyed-in-the-wool extremists. Whoops.
TERROR MAN v1 is a good example of an indie web comic that didn't succumb too earnestly to the vertical scroll format and whose creative team learned and adapted on the fly. It's easy to criticize the awkward page composition, inconsistent spot colors, and exaggerated inlaid text effects. But to the creative team's credit, by the volume's third or fourth episode, the wrinkles are ironed flat almost entirely: the dialogue is more measured; the action and sound effects are more sparing; the character motivations are clearer; and readers feel genuinely invested in the danger on the page.
Jungwoo's ham-fisted actions feel completely chaotic and impromptu, and by extension, wholly entertaining when one considers he's just a lazy high-school kid trying to save a few random folks in a shopping mall. Good thing Lilia, his live-in housekeeper, has several years' experience as what one presumes to be a special agent of some kind. (Is Lilia more of a bodyguard than a maid? That would explain why she can't cook worth a damn.) And then there's the pseudonymous Bongchun, delightfully tech savvy, but also a loudmouth dingus, who tags along for the ride because he's bored (and is wanted internationally).
Saving the world by pretending to tear it down, TERROR MAN v1 tells the tale of reverse-superheroism, which more kids dream about than not, only to quickly turn that dream into a nightmare when darker forces arrive on the scene. Apparently, Jungwoo and the gang have more to worry about than unstable urban infrastructure. Corrupt cops? Crime bosses? More and more rises from the shadows. The story of this one young terrorist is just beginning.
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