King of Eden: a title combining investigation and archaeology at Ki-oon!

Autumn has barely begun when Ki-oon announces its first announcements of the year 2018, and it starts right away with King of Eden!

King of Eden

Original title : 에덴의 왕

Translated title : Eden-ui wang

Authors : Takashi NAGASAKI (script), IGNITO (art)

French publisher : Ki-oon

Release date : 11/01/2018

Number of volumes : 4 volumes

Status : Current series

Price : 7,90 €

Synopsis :

Entire villages are being wiped off the map by gigantic fires around the world. Thailand, Scotland, Spain… The scenario is always the same: the charred corpses of the inhabitants bear traces of bites and have undergone such deformations that they are no longer human…
Strangely, a young Korean archaeologist, Teze Yoo, seems linked to these tragedies: at each site, he finishes the last survivor before burning the bodies. But for international intelligence services, he is above all the number one suspect in the spread of a virus coveted by terrorist groups around the world! Dr. Itsuki, herself an archaeologist and former classmate of Teze, is recruited by the Korean secret service to track her down. From England to China via Romania, the manhunt is on!

Written by Takashi NAGASAKI who is used to working with Naoki Urasawa (Master Keaton, Pluto, Billy Bat), King of Eden offers us a singular adventure mixing police investigation and archaeology. If we feel a continuity with the theme that can present the title Master Keaton (published by Kana), we will have on this title a completely different line, since the scriptwriter associates with the artist IGNITO, a Korean cartoonist who offers us a very realistic line. An explosive mix for a complex and breathless case, which will take the protagonists and by extension the readers of the title around the world, to go back to the origins of our history.