The drawings in this graphic novel is so manga-like; the characters are so adorable.  However, once you start reading the volume, you can tell that it's not a Japanese story.  It doesn't have any of the Japanese culture/feel to it, not that it should, as this is not a manga, just that the drawing styles are. 

The story is not too boring, either.  The heroine of the story, Luna, is a 15-year-old secret agent grown from a lab from the best genetic material.  It does make the story a bit inhumane, as she was born to be a secret agent.  I wouldn't mind reading volume 2 and on just because I like the drawings.

Amazing Agent Luna - Volume 1:

Luna's first mission is to blend in to Nobel High as a high student and uncover a plot engineered by Count Von Brucken.  For the first time in her life, she made friends and rivals with other kids her age and develops a crush on Jonah, Count Von Brucken's son. 

File 01: Amazing Agent

File 02: Nobel High

File 03: Bad Boy

File 04: First Crush

File 05: Mysterious Birds

File 06: Mission Accomplished?

Amazing Agent Luna - Volume 2:

Amazing Agent Luna - Volume 3:

I am not sure what to say about this comic.  I am tempted to not give a favorable review but then maybe I just don't know enough about this comic and goth style, and I might actually sound stupid if I do.  First of all, it has this pseudo-manga style drawing.  It's a mixture of manga-style and comic-style, but the comic part overpowers the manga part so, to me, it has this manga-wanna-be feel to it.  The eyes of the characters in this comic are definitely inspired by Japanese manga; they are gigantic in proportion to their face. 

Even with the story itself, I feel like there is no substance and most of the stuff didn't make any sense.  Maybe it's because I am not goth?  I don't know.  I find the story boring, weak, and bizzare (not in a good way), and it's really annoying reading Delirium's part of the dialogue.  I did a search on this and it seems like it's kind of popular among its readers.  It just isn't to my taste and it's the worst comic novel I've read since I started reading months ago.  It is different from the other manga/graphic novels I've read, but in a worse way.  No offense to the authors/creators, but it made me appreciate manga a lot more. 

DramaCon - Volume 1:

Not really manga but a comic book with mixed manga influenced art.  It's a little hard to understand but that's got nothing to do with the art itself.  I wasn't really used to this kind of narrative comic book and it was a little harder to follow which text to read first as it's not as intuitive as the manga I've read. I definitely prefer manga over this; the authors here definitely needs to learn where to place the text so it's intuitive for the readers to go from one to another. 

Anyway, the story is about Shuna, who is a human daughter to elf chief, Cutter and Leetah.  Her parents were killed recently.  Shuna must learn all the rules and pitfalls of the elves.  Shuna tries to unite elf and humankind in peace, but she ended up marrying this hunter who used her to get his status as the husband of "wood spirit".  He later proved to be a bad husband and abused her physically.  Shuna escapes with the help of her elf friends toward the cave where the other elves were.  That leads to another story covered in this story.  Treestump is an elf who wants to forge swords, as there is a shortage of weapons with the elves as the trolls have stopped making them.  However, elves are not known to make swords and don't know the first thing.  After some time and determination with his loyal wife, he figured out the combination of parts of metal to forge the sword.  As that happened, they found out that the whole cave was a trap set for the elves to do all the hard work and they view the sword as treasure.  The elves were running away from the trolls out of the cave and the Shuna trio were running toward the cave.  The result was a battle between the humans and the elves.  Shuna used the sword that Treestump forged and chased her husband away, knowing that he and the others will never return. 

Sidenote: the elves in the cave found another elf, Ahdri, injured and wrapped up like a cocoon.  I don't know who the elf was and where that fits in, but maybe it's a continuation from/for another story?  I don't know this series so I am only guessing.

Actually, the story takes place in the 23th century, 200 years after Buffy was gone.  We don't know what happened to Buffy, but we know that since then, there were no more calling for slayers and that demons were chased off the Earth.  The future that Whedon introduced is rather dark and unpleasant.  There are monsters around and nowhere is safe. 

Melaka Fray, the heroine of this story, is a "grabber", which means a thief.  One day, a man, whoturned out to be her watcher, came looking for her, caling her "the chosen one", and then set himself on fir.  Later, this goat-demon-looking creature, named Urkonn, approaches Fray and tells her that she's a slayer and said that her destiny is to kill the vampires, which are called "lurkers" for people at that time.  Fray, of course, like Buffy, does it believe him at first, but after some Urkonn gave her a little "push", and she started to fight the lurks.  Fray was surprised when she found out who The One Who Will Lead is (There is a little twist here).  With her law officer sister, Erin, and her mentor, Urkonn, Fray managed to kill the huge monster, whose womb is the gateway for demons to come back to Earth, summoned by the One Who Will Lead, the main evil doer. 

I left out some details in the end because I don't want to give it away.  There was a little shocker in the end; at least I was shocked.  Fray is supposed to have a little bit of both Buffy and Faith in her.  I think Fray is more Faith than Buffy, and is even more than Buffy and Faith combined.  I enjoy Whedon's slayer story and enjoyed this continuation of the legend.  However, I don't have that strong feeling toward Fray as I did with Buffy and Faith.  She's like a tomboy/fighter type. 

Now, on with the drawing.  Loeb with Whedom raved about the penciller, Karl Moline.  Whedon was very satisfied about how Fray looked, claiming that she's very sexy.  Sorry, I don't see that.  I have to say that the drawings are a little lacking; the characters tend to look different from diffrent angles sometimes.  It seems like Moline did not master the character and know what they'd look like from diffrent angles.  I am not crazy about the drawing; I definitely enjoyed the story more than anything. 

The book hinted a second volume.  I would read it if it comes out.

Kiss Me, Kill Me - Volume 1 - 4