Billy Bat – serie

From superstar creators comes volume 2 in one of the most anticipated manga—a millennia-sprawling conspiracy thriller. All the Light We Cannot See meets historical figures everyone knows: Einstein, Walt Disney, Lee Harvey Oswald, and even Jesus Christ.Who is the mysterious Billy Bat? Fifty years ago, he reunited two lovers in New York City. Sixty years ago, he roamed the darkest night of the postwar era. Two thousand years ago, he wove through the fate of one hailed as a savior.Well, Billy Bat? Who are you really? And...why are you here?This is the second thrilling volume in the sci-fi mystery by Naoki Urasawa and Takashi Nagasaki, beautifully packaged and available for the first time in English.

A long-awaited English debut from Naoki Urasawa and Takashi Nagasaki, Billy Bat Volume 1 launches a sweeping conspiracy thriller that moves across decades and continents, pulling readers into a mystery that refuses to stay contained on the page!Praised with two starred reviews, this series arrives as one of the most anticipated manga releases of the year.The story begins in 1949 Los Angeles. Kevin Yamagata, a Japanese American cartoonist, has built his career on Billy Bat, a sharp, wisecracking detective beloved by readers. But everything shifts when Kevin realizes he may have unknowingly copied the character from an image he once saw in Japan.Determined to find the truth, Kevin returns to a devastated, postwar Japan. What he uncovers goes far beyond questions of inspiration or theft. The image of the bat is ancient, surfacing again and again across history, tied to moments of upheaval, power, and violence.As Kevin follows the trail, he is drawn into a far-reaching mystery that blurs fiction and reality, where a single drawing may hold the key to forces shaping human history.

From superstar creators comes volume 3 in one of the most anticipated manga—a millennia-sprawling conspiracy thriller. All the Light We Cannot See meets historical figures everyone knows: Einstein, Walt Disney, Lee Harvey Oswald, and even Jesus ChristA historical conspiracy thriller meta manga spanning multiple millennia following a Japanese-American comics artist’s search for the truth regarding the origins of his character “Billy Bat.”The Bat appears again in 16th-century Feudal Japan. Kanbei, the fastest ninja in the Iga province, has been tasked by Lord Momochi to slip through a devastating siege by “Great Unifier” Oda Nobunaga and deliver a scroll that could alter the course of history.Pursued in bloodlust by childhood friends and tormented by both his memories and the strange hallucinations of an imaginary bat, will he be able to prevent the prophetic “Bat Tome” from falling into the wrong hands?The third volume in the sprawling genre-defying historical epic that transcends time and space!!

From Naoki Urasawa, the acclaimed creator of 20th Century Boys and Monster, and coauthor Takashi Nagasaki, comes Billy Bat—a long-awaited, genre-bending thriller finally available in EnglishAt the dreamy adventure park Billyland, the Billy Bat mascot hides his face behind the beloved park namesake. It’s the American Golden Age—the 1960s—and under that costume, a man is discovering who he wants to be.One day he’ll be a hero, just like Billy Bat. Courted by the bat himself, a man named Oswald is making decisions that will change the world . . .The fourth volume in the sprawling genre-defying historical epic that transcends time and space!!

From Naoki Urasawa, the acclaimed creator of 20th Century Boys and Monster, and coauthor Takashi Nagasaki, comes Billy Bat—a long-awaited, genre-bending thriller finally available in EnglishA historical conspiracy thriller meta manga spanning multiple millennia following a Japanese American comics artist’s search for the truth regarding the origins of his character “Billy Bat.”It is a race against time as Kevin and Smith head to Dallas, a city undergoing a period of heated racial tension, in the hopes of preventing the ultimate American tragedy. Seeking knowledge of a future now mere months away, Kevin must draw upon Billy’s influence once more if he is to possess any chance of changing President Kennedy’s fate. Meanwhile, Oswald continues to be plagued by visions of the Bat, pushing him ever closer to the one fateful decision that will forever secure his position in the annals of history.The fifth volume in the sprawling genre-defying historical epic that transcends time and space!