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Dragon Head, Vol. 8

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Minetaro Mochizuki, Dragon Head, vol. 8 (Tokyopop, 1999)

The crew stopped their press towards Tokyo to grab some supplies from an abandoned shopping mall, but that turns out to not be the greatest of ideas; when another earthquake hits (along with another pillar of fire, this one from the direction of Tokyo), Iwada is forced to try and take off in the middle of an ash storm, and Teru gets left behind. This allows Mochizuki to get us back, in much of the final three-quarters of the volume, to the series' original existential claustrophobia. We're getting close to the end (I think the series runs ten volumes), and it's still of the same quality it was from day one. Good stuff. *** ½

In Volume #8 of Minetaro Mochizuki's "Dragon Head," our heroes and heroine find a safe spot for landing on the roof of a gutted Shopping Mall. Before they have a chance to settle in and get comfortable the area is drenched with heavy rains, flooding and a tornado that wrecks immense damage to the group. When Teru awakens after being knocked out he discovers that the helicopter has crashed and that his companions are nowhere to be found. On foot, Teru heads toward Tokyo in hopes of rendezvousing with Ako.