FANTAGRAPHICS AT 50! It’s time for another exclusive preview today at BF as part of our Fantagraphics celebrations. Today’s it’s the turn of Shintaro Kago’s The Ultra Power Mongol Invasion (translated by Zack Davisson). Don’t forget that our Lydia Turner reviewed the recent Kago volume Brain Damage here on the site and Kago’s acclaimed Dementia 21 was covered here by Robin Enrico.
Pre-order The Ultra Power Mongol Invasion here.
THE ULTRA POWER MONGOL INVASION
by Kago
An epic alternative history of colonization and industry — as only the zany, bizarre, and grotesque mind of Kago could dream up!
In Shintaro Kago’s vision of history, Genghis Khan’s empire was not built by soldiers and warhorses — but rather the animated severed hands of giants! From there, the history escalates at a fever pitch, as the demand for these giant hands sweeps across Asia and Europe and become indispensable for modern life as transportation, labor, power. In time, the hands mutate into other limbs and body parts and are utilized for far more destructive and sinister purposes as the world descends into a hyper capitalist, war hungry hellscape.
From the bestselling mangaka of Dementia 21 and Brain Damage comes a vicious satire of humanity’s relentless greed infused with the gleeful body horror, visceral detail, and off-the-wall antics that have delighted and disgusted Kago’s readers.
