Had read and reviewed all the volumes, but decided to buy this large compendium volume to read it all the way through. Crazy, pulpy premise: A miserable guy kinda drifting through life, kinda in grad school. His roommate dates the guy's best friend, a woman he ihas always been in love with but neve knows how to tell her. Anguished, he decides to commit suicide but manages to hit some scaffolding on the way down, and doesn't die.
Then a demon comes to him and says: I'll give you a break and let you live if you kill someone who deserves to die every month. This move is the basis of the manga Death Note, essentially, but that's the only real connection. So it's a crime/horror mashup, just as is Brubaker and Phillips's Fatale. Entertaining. One question is whether this demon really exists or whether he is finally losing it altogether. Or both.
One thing I like: The guy is so wishy washy in his daily life, it's reflected in his first person storytellingl i.e., Oh, maybe I shoudl have started that way. Oh, another digression, sorry, always do that. He's kinda a loser, pretty unlikable in some ways, pretty relatable in others.
Then a demon comes to him and says: I'll give you a break and let you live if you kill someone who deserves to die every month. This move is the basis of the manga Death Note, essentially, but that's the only real connection. So it's a crime/horror mashup, just as is Brubaker and Phillips's Fatale. Entertaining. One question is whether this demon really exists or whether he is finally losing it altogether. Or both.
One thing I like: The guy is so wishy washy in his daily life, it's reflected in his first person storytellingl i.e., Oh, maybe I shoudl have started that way. Oh, another digression, sorry, always do that. He's kinda a loser, pretty unlikable in some ways, pretty relatable in others.