MASTERキートン [Master Keaton] #7

The seventh volume of Naoki Urasawa's acclaimed series finds Taichi Keaton — half-Japanese archaeologist and former SAS operative — rendered in Urasawa's characteristically expressive linework against a quietly atmospheric European streetscape. The cover's tagline sets the mood beautifully, promising a turbulent late-20th-century backdrop in which Keaton's dual lives as would-be academic and reluctant operative continue to collide with the bittersweet realities of the people he meets. Story by Hokusei Katsushika and Naoki Urasawa, this volume is a fine entry point into one of manga's most humanistic adventure series.