Jormungand © Takahashi Keitarou/Shogakukan (Serialized in Sunday GX)
Published in Indonesia by Elex Media/Level Comics
[Cover from Level Comics]
Jormungand 1 of 8+
By Takahashi Keitarou
Original title: ヨルムンガンド
Shogakukan, serialized in Sunday GX, seinen
Volume 1 first released in Japan 2006.11
Published in Indonesia 2010.05 by PT Elex Media Komputindo/Level Comics
May contain [SPOILERS]
Synopsis
Despite losing his family to a war amply provisioned by international arms dealers “Merchants of Death,” child soldier Jonah goes to work for flamboyant arms dealer Koko Hekmatyar and her merry band of mercs. Jonah's first assignment is to expedite the delivery of fighter helicopter parts critical to changing the power map of Eastern Europe, a task that one country would do everything in its power to thwart.
[With additional background from the Jormungand volume 1 description in Amazon (VIZ Media edition)]
More on the weapons-hating but perversely proficient at wielding them Jonah here.
Reiterating that I haven't a clue as to how “Jormungand” in the manga title ties in with Jormungand (properly, Jörmungandr) of Norse mythology, not having gotten hold of the Indonesian version's editor Aryaguna-san for more backstory exposition and initial thoughts/impressions. So I can only speculate: Is Jonah equivalent to Jormungand, the sea serpent slash world's end time bomb? Or is he actually Jormungand's arch-nemesis Thor?
Level Comics Volume 1 street date: 5 May 2010
~niki DBA huamulan03 (花木蘭03) who thanks Level editor Lenny-san for her cover and blurb provisioning
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