The Dirty Pair, Band 2: Engelsplage

The Dirty Pair #3

by Adam Warren, Toren Smith

Kei und Yuri bilden das Dirty Pair, wie sie von anderen Mitgliedern der 3WA (Worlds Welfare Work Administration) genannt werden. Offiziell haben die beiden den Codenamen Lovley Angel.
Kei wird von der 3WA zu einem routinemäßigem Test gerufen. Diese Test geschehen durch spezielle Sims, in die die Testpersonen eintauchen. Doch bei diesem Test mit Kei geht etwas schief. Sie hat zwar die Aufgabe gelöst,schafft es aber nicht wieder aus der Simulation herauszukommen. Deshalb wird Yuri zu Hilfe geholt und ebenfalls mit eingeloggt. Bevor sie sich nun aus dem System befreien können, müssen sie beide allerdings zuerst eine Reihe von Simulationen durchlaufen und bestehen.

Genres: Manga, Comics, Graphic Novels, Science Fiction, Comics Manga, Humor, Anime

152 pages, Paperback

First published July 15, 1994

About the author

Adam Warren (born 1967) is an American comic book writer and artist who is most famous for his original graphic novel Empowered, for adapting the characters known as Dirty Pair into an American comic book, and for being one of the first American commercial illustrators to be influenced by the general manga style.

Reviews

[Owen Hatherley · Rating 4 out of 5]

Extremely silly cyberpunk anime parody that has aged much better than I might have expected.

[Alexandre · Rating 1 out of 5]

good art but story was kinda tedious

[Mel · Rating 3 out of 5]

The third story sees the girls confined to a planet and assigned a reporter to improve their image with a sympathetic piece on them. I think of the three this is the funniest story, particularly the way the reporter envisions the acts of destruction the girls go through. Though this does feel like the biggest difference between the anime comedy and the cyberpunk setting. The villains are pure cyberpunk, obsessed with sex and transferring themselves to different bodies through use of their cyberwear. At one point one of them seems to be using an ipad which considering this was written in the mid-late 80s is pretty cool! While not a great comic it was fun to go back and read these for the nostalgia.