Generally, I dislike these styles, as I think them sloppy and rushed for a deadline, but here it adds another layer to the tone and setting. You can easily see that the style is split between rather basic drawn lines for buildings, rushed, almost sketching lines for the characters. This first page sets the tone for the entire manga, in both art style and the gritty depths of the story. The story revolves around Nicolas ‘Nico’ Brown, and Worick Arcangelo, two ‘Handmen’ that are essentially guns for hire, doing odd jobs for citizens, cops and mafia families and their serendipitous encounters with the previously mentioned prostitute Alex Benedetto.Īs mentioned, the first chapter throws us in the middle of Alex being beaten by her pimp, which pans out to be just across the street from the Handyman building. This volume packs in five chapters, set in an alternate reality, in a city called Ergastulum (which we can agree is a mouthful for a name). This is the start of Gangsta, an on-going manga series written and drawn by Konske, which started publishing in 2011. Opening the manga, you’re presented with a rather basic rendering of a town, then thrown right into the middle of a pimp beating his prostitute for not gaining enough clientele.
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