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Ghostface -Min Woo Hyung (Creator of Priest)

Min-Woo Hyung, the stunning Korean creator behind the original Priest graphic novels, is coming at you again with a whole new series—this time in color. Take all your assumptions about manga formats and throw them out the window. Ghostface will be presented by Tokyopop as 7” by 10” standard US graphic novels that read left to right, just like a Marvel or DC book. Even better? They’re all full color.

Thousands of the world’s most ruthless criminals are locked away in the ruins of a city on a wind-swept island called Sodo. Out of the writhing mass of vice and violence, the strongest of the ganglords have clawed their way to the top and set themselves up as local gods of the prison island. The corporate city-states which jailed these dangerous men and women rely on the unending tides of gang war to keep the criminals stranded—but since only the strong survive, the island instead serves as an incubator, bringing out the worst and most extreme in its captives. One such super-criminal has escaped Sodo, has broken into high-tech corporate labs on the mainland, and has stolen a chemical that could change everything.

Hyung’s art work has always been razor-sharp, winding like a snake-strike as his characters’ fight scenes whip across the page. Fantastic sprays of bullets, blood, and sweat arc across Hyung’s characteristically painstaking background work. The series feels as though it’s set in Akira’s Neo-Tokyo, with a riff on the mind-bendingly dangerous cast of Street Fighter. This time though, there are no intricate side stories; the plot surges ahead like a bullet, straightforward and bloodthirsty, creating an edge-of-your-seat actioner from one of Korea’s leading lights.