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Inkthinker
09-21-2006, 12:29 AM
Anyone else check this new manwha out? It was released this week from Dark Horse.

It's pretty damn good... the art is espescially nice, evocative of the works of Takehiko Inoue, Kentaro Miura and Katsuya Terada to weave a story of a man who always delivers, no matter what.

The story is a little overly decompressed in my opinion... I burned through this first volume pretty quickly, and the story ends right in the middle of the plotline which consumes better than half of the book, but it definitely carries the promise of excellence to come.

It's possibly worth mentioning as well that Korean books naturally read from left to right, the same as English books, which might make this a good book to pass on to someone who would normally be turned off by the right to left formatting of Japanese works.

SpydaWeb
09-22-2006, 03:32 PM
Interesting. I may look this up.

Inkthinker
09-22-2006, 11:05 PM
Totally. Dark Horse has a couple other new manwha on the way, and they're sticking to their established reputation for quality and care. They get some of the finest work, and they're usually pretty good about treating it right.

chojinlocke
09-23-2006, 12:42 AM
Just got it, and it looks like it is going on my review list!!!

sschroeder
09-23-2006, 12:56 AM
I saw this in the comic shop today. I'm tempted to get it at some point.

Does anyone know how many volumes there will be in this series?

chanzero
09-28-2006, 08:12 PM
review with preview pages:
http://www.popcultureshock.com/banya-the-explosive-delivery-man/40363/

If you like your manwha with a healthy dose of pow! and splat!, then Banya The Explosive Delivery Man is for you. This shamelessly entertaining story plays like a cross between Dune, Mad Max, and Lord of the Rings, blending fantasy and sci-fi elements with plenty of butt-kicking action sequences. Kim Young-Oh’s artwork grabs us from the very first panel, tossing us headlong into a desert battle between human soldiers and a horde of Tolkein-esque monsters called Torren. Out of this chaos a lone figure emerges: a scruffy young mail carrier named Banya.