Found some stuff that may tickle some folks’ manga-bone…It’ll be trickling online as I U/L it…First off, a blast from the past - I FINALLY found it (to replace from Great Comic Purge v1):
Xenon - Heavy Metal Warrior v1-4 (c01-29) (complete)
Masaomi Kanzaki
Viz
From : http://www.netjaunt.com/manga/XENON.html
The powers that be at Viz and Eclipse may have chosen Xenon for its hot art, cyborg transformations and rip-roaring action, but thrust into the center of Kanzaki’s intensely innocent yet gore-filled world, I immediately fell in love with a cast of characters who live on in my mind like old high school friends: Asuka Kano, the valiant bully-fighter and kitten-saver who would be turned into the amnesiac cyborg Xenon; Sonoko, destined to fall pitifully in love with a man she did not understand; Risa, Sonoko’s valley girl/ tomboy best friend, afraid of losing her closest compadre; Ryuji, Asuka’s ex-rival and a gangleader without a gang, who finally comes to Asuka’s aid; Gramps, Sonoko’s mad scientist grandfather who created Xenon in the first place; and Yoko, the world-class runner with metal legs who would challenge Asuka’s rather dim view of women.
Maybe even more fun were the villains: incredible creeps like Tono, head of the Xenon project, whose powers and abilities we never did quite figure out; Number 204, the assassin cyborg who had a thing about being called “defective”; the Demon Three, disturbingly American mercenaries in exo-skeletons; Bluebeard and Redbeard, zombies on drugs complete with an army of attack monkeys; and of course, their creator, the bad mad scientist who would finally stand up against his old rival, the good mad scientist Gramps. It was all too much.
Xenon was young Kanzaki’s first major work, and it reflected all the angst of a coming of age classic. You see, poor Asuka isn’t like the other teenagers. He and his friends have watched as assassins ripped his mother’s heart out, for one. And bad guys have stolen his humanity, so he has to seek revenge instead of studying algebra. His ga-dooming heart pumps oil instead of blood, and if Sonoko finds out she will be heartbroken herself. On top of it all, Asuka has a sort of a nervous habit — he stutters.
But Kanzaki isn’t content with leaving well enough alone. He stirs into the equation more girls than we can shake a stick at. Sonoko is beside herself because her first love appears to be rejecting her. Her best friend, Risa, is jealous of the love Sonoko has for Asuka. And then Yoko comes along to take off her blouse every once in a while — Yoko, the older woman who is also a cyborg. How does Sonoko stand a chance?
Of course, crammed into every issue was more blood-spillage than Kenshiro and his North Star pals would know what to do with. This was, after all, the book in which I had to decide what it would sound like to shove a woman’s heart out of her rib cage, and then recreate the comic-booky dialogue she will spurt with her blood.
More info at that link, BTW.
Xenon v1-2 (c01-15) ~81mb
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=TCOMBIPC
Xenon v3-4 (c16-29) ~78mb
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=J6AUI5NJ
Mirrors from Dave @ BDComics
http://rapidshare.com/files/1258004/Xenon_v1-2_c01-15.rar
http://rapidshare.com/files/1258318/Xenon_v3-4_c16-29.rar
(***RapidShare link to v1-2 is fixed now)
The Venus Wars
