I am a Hero

A manga about a failing manga artist who must survive a zombie apocalypse with his hunting rifle.

I really have lots of mixed feelings about this manga. We covered the whole series for a Retrospective but looking back this had such an amazingly strong beginning that just fizzled out towards the end. The slow burn reveal of the ZQN is some of the best storytelling I’ve seen in the manga medium. Even as the story starts ramping up, Kengo Hanazawa does a stellar job with creative monster designs and weaving the narrative around an unreliable hero. Unfortunately things start to fall apart towards the last quarter of the story. I think the reused character artwork is really shameless and it’s sad to see.

I would still recommend this series but with the caveat that the ending is nowhere as strong as the beginning is. Available from Dark Horse Comics.

~dakazu