Comics / Manga

Banya: The Explosive Delivery Man: Volume 3

By Leroy Douresseaux
June 2, 2007 - 09:24

Thanks to barnesandnoble.com for the image.

Banya: The Explosive Delivery Man is set in a savage world that mixes elements of George Miller’s Mad Max and Frank Herbert’s Dune, with characters that could fit right into the world Robert E. Howard created for his Conan stories.    The title character, Banya, lives in Gaya, a war plagued land where a horrible conflict rages between humans and the monstrous Torren.  He works for the Gaya Desert Post Office where the motto is “Fast. Precise. Secure.”  Declaring that there isn’t any delivery that he can’t make, Banya delivers mail under the most incredibly dangerous and adverse conditions and uses his explosive fighting skills to take care of anyone who stands in the way of him delivering his mail.

Volume 3 picks up where Volume 2 left off.  Banya is delivering a package to the heart of a sacred temple where a brutal and chaotic battle already rages.  Accompanied by three Knights of Hohwe, Banya finds that to deliver his package to the mysterious monk Jiahn, he’ll have to go through a horde of bloodthirsty Torren.  After that epic concludes, the first half of the next begins when Banya’s sidekick, Kong, agrees to deliver a special girl named Mido back to her parents.  The grotesque killers who had imprisoned Mido are willing to leave a trail of ravaged and bloody corpses behind them in their hunt to find her.

Grisly injuries, gory battles, and high-kicking fight scenes are in abundance; it’s an embarrassment of violent riches.  Still, Banya: The Explosive Delivery man has its comic moments, but the wicked cool violence and Kim Young-Oh’s extremely beautiful art (It’s like a series of black and white paintings) are the selling points that keep me coming back for more.

 

 

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