Is it too soon to enjoy a pandemic-themed manga? That question was foremost in my mind as I read King of Eden, a new medical thriller that pits a group of globe-trotting scientists against terrorists who are trying to weaponize a virus that turns its victims into—wait for it—zombies. I’m happy to report that King of Eden didn’t remind me of the COVID crisis, but it did something arguably worse: it bored me with a first volume that’s so dense with exposition that it reads like a textbook. The dullness of the story is all the more surprising for a series written by Takashi Nagasaki, Naoki Urasawa’s collaborator on such entertaining pot-boilers as Monster, Master Keaton, and 20th Century Boys. All of Nagasaki’s worst tendencies are on full display in King...
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