Dogs: Bullets & Carnage, Vol. 6

Dogs: Bullets & Carnage

by Shirow Miwa

With the city still reeling in the aftermath of the cataclysm, Giovanni makes his move and goes after the director. But the outcome of the confrontation is not at all what he expected. The director himself has deep ties to the underground research facility that Giovanni and Heine were raised in, where they were forced to fight over and over again in Einstürzen's hellish experiments. Finally the full story emerges of what happened in that killing field so many years ago.

Genres: Manga, Science Fiction, Comics, Crime, Graphic Novels, Action, Seinen

218 pages, Paperback

First published February 18, 2011

Reviews

[Sirix · Rating 3 out of 5]

Plot in this manga dose not really make sense to me but this backstory was actually pretty interesting.

[Nico · Rating 5 out of 5]

[Insert expletives here]

Hooooolllyyyy shit. I was just sitting here reading, and once I got to Volume 52, I distinctly remember thinking: "This just became a 5 star book."

I've been holding off for a 5 star on this series. I didn't quite know why, but I just thought it wasn't as epic as I thought it could be, I was just waiting for something exceptional and mind-blowingly awesome to happen to bump it right up to the top. I knew it could achieve greatness but something told me it just hadn't gotten there yet. Well, you know what? It just exploded off the fricken scale. I was, at one point, sitting in my bed with the book in my hand, dumbfounded and staring at the page with my jaw dropped aaaallllllll the way down.

This is absolutely beyond awesome. 6 stars. These characters. These freaking characters are going through hell and back to survive. Nothing like the heartbreaking explanation of a tragic and traumatic childhood to bring a new love and life to characters you already thought you knew.

I am so glad I got all of these at once. Wow. Mind blown.

[Shawnie Nicole · Rating 4 out of 5]

All over the place it’s hard to keep up but I’m invested so I’ll keep reading

[FiliżankaFantasy · Rating 4 out of 5]

41/45/2023

[Cornerofmadness · Rating 4 out of 5]

It's really no surprise that I would like this manga, despite it being ultra-violent, given that three of the four main characters are damaged in some way. This had a bit too many fight scenes this time (my issue isn't with the violence, it's with the fact that panel after panel of it gets boring) but at the same time, it fills in a huge amount of back story so I'm happy.

It opens with the clean up after the attack from the scientists who created Heine (see issue 5) and four things happen as a result 1. We get a very short interlude with Badou and Mihai as they recoup in the Underground's hospital 2. Granny (mama?) and her half-animal, half human brethren (from the years of uncontrolled designer genetic engineering) have grown suspicious of Heine and demand an explanation of who/what he is and can they trust him since he seems connected to the Down Below scientists 3. Giovanni tries to kill the Underground director 4. The underground director is seen for the first time (even by the people living in the Underground) and has huge surprises for everyone, which I don't want to spoil in a review.

The rest of the book was Heine, Giovanni and Lily's childhood. Some of it (very little) was rehashing scenes we've seen but this time we got to see more of their training, how the kids got to be the way they are, their early personalities (and it almost makes you feel sorry for Giovanni), their unrest and more. It was well worth the wait to see it. And now I'll probably have to wait forever to see the continuation. My one quibble with the art is Arthur sort of has Heine's current hair do and I kept confusing him with Heine even though kid!Heine has a totally different do.

[Sharakael · Rating 4 out of 5]

This volume... was a change of pace from the previous volumes, as it mostly contained a flashback to Haine's past. It explained a lot about how and where Haine came from, and I could understand it taking the majority of the book... at the same time, it felt like it broke off the pace as the previous volumes felt like it was building up to an all-out war and destruction.

Then again, this volume might just be a brief respite from the upcoming storyline...

[Lady Captain Bók · Rating 4 out of 5]

*To będzie wspólna opinia do całej serii, chyba że któryś tom czymś się wyróżni w przyszłości*

Mroczna i brutalna. Klimat gangów, podziemia i barku skrupułów. Świat i państwa właściwie nie istnieją.
Gwałtowa i interesująca, a przedewszytkim jest dla mnie świetną odskocznią, bo jest totalnie inna niż to co ostatnio czytałam.

[Lottie Eve · Rating 4 out of 5]

4.5
God that was heartbreaking O_o