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Zokusho by Paul Corn

My rating: 3 of 5 stars


This is one I picked up a Tsubasacon last year from the artist. It sits at the intersection of SF and fantasy which would normally be up my alley. The distractor for me is that I'm not a fan of assassins and thieves as protagonists and there were a lot of them in this. Each story was set up (at varying lengths) to introduce the characters who presumably will be working together in the future.

We have mafia enforcer types, we have rotting Johnny who is literally doing that after a magic-surgery gone wrong (and was special forces turned assassin as well) and then there are a couple of Wayward Cross...knights? (who may or may not be assassins too) and the telepath Nitrous Blight who was for me the more interesting of characters.

By the end of this volume, everyone is introduced and some are now working together. However, I'm not too likely to go further just because it's not my taste in reading material. The art, for some reason, put me in mind of Rurouni Kenshin. If you like morally grey to charcoal characters you'd probably enjoy this.



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