A perfect moment: The Nameless Monster
Okay, I've fallen in love with the works of Naoki Urasawa. So, I figured I would stop lurking and share a bit from one of his best series: Monster. Monster is...well, it's hard to describe without spoiling it. At it's heart, it's about a man wandering the world (well, Germany for the most part) and trying to set right a wrong from his past. To do this he has to hunt down a monster. Along the way, his strong sense of morality causes him to intervene in others problems, all while the police chase him and he struggles to find out more about the monster's past (the better to track him down).
But this post isn't about that man. This is about his quarry. He goes by many aliases. Many seek him out, convinced that they can harness his massive charisma and intellect for their own purposes. But the monster has his own agenda, and people who come close to him for too long have a nasty habit of dying.
Background for the scans: a private detective named Richard Braun has been investigating the monster. The private detective used to be a police officer until he drunkenly shot a suspected serial killer, at which point he lost his job and his family left him because of his alcoholism. When we meet him, he has the alcoholism almost beaten, and by this point in the volume, he has almost reconciled with his daughter. He is now confronting the monster, who has lead him to one of his favourite spots, talking all the while...
Reads right to left.
One last note, this isn't the official translation. This is a scanlation found at Spectrum Nexus. The official translation is done by Viz (the Viz translation is nominated for two Eisner awards this year, by the way, so that should be a clue as to the quality of the translation), but it's so much harder to scan those volumes, so I just used these.