ONE STOP NERD SHOP
Chronowar #1, #4, #5, #7, #8, #9 1996 Dark Horse Comics Sold separately
#1 - Story and art by Kazumasa Takayama. A decaying, old satellite is headed straight for Tokyo, and the city is three citizens shy of total evacuation. Hard-boiled detective Watanabe remains in the abandoned gotham, searching for a gaunt, desperate Machida, who is wanted for attempted murder; and Chiaki, a stubborn housewife who doesn't believe the burning rubble will hit Tokyo, also remains behind. But Chiaki is wrong. And when the satellite does hit, the three find the city is less abandoned than before. Someone was riding that satellite down from orbit, and that someone wasn't born on earth! 32 pages, B&W.
#4 - Story and art by Kazumasa Takayama. The living spaceship Ohzun is the last creation of a civilization destroyed by a supernova, a wandering starship entrusted with carrying on the legacy of its dead masters. But why Ohzun has come to earth, and why it has chosen these three humans to come before it, isn't entirely clear. Nor are those humans sure they want it to be . . . 32 pages, B&W
#5 - Story and art by Kazumasa Takayama. Some people feel they're moving too fast through life. This is especially true for Machida, Chiaki, and Detective Watanabe -- thanks to the living spaceship Ozhun, they are moving one hundred thousand times faster than everyone else! They're part of a twisted, inhuman experiment, but they've got an even bigger problem -- the Detective has gone nuts and threatens to raise the stakes to the ultimate level! 32 pages, B&W.
#7 - Story and art by Kazumasa Takayama. Good guys finish last. That's what former detective Watanabe is teaching Machida -- and he's teaching it the hard way. The lesson begins when Machida attempts to rescue Chiaki, who is suspended in the air above Tokyo Tower. It ends when Watanabe's trap is sprung -- a battery of machine guns set to blast both Machida and Chiaki to the other side of the Japanese city. It's not fair, but what they say about love and war still applies in Chronowar. 32 pages, B&W.
#8 - Story and art by Kazumasa Takayama. How much can you risk for love? As Chiaki and Watanabe battle on top of Tokyo Tower, the heat from their hyper-accelerated muscles is tearing their fragile human bodies apart. Watanabe is betting on the alien Ohzun to give him an electronic afterlife. But is Chiaki's newly discovered love for Machida enough to sustain her in the face of mutilation and death? And can Machida, half-paralyzed by Watanabe's machine guns, do anything to help the woman he has worshipped from afar for so long? 32 pages, B&W.
#9 -Story and art by Kazumasa Takayama. Ten months ago a satellite collided with Tokyo -- but Chiaki doesn't remember that. And she doesn't remember that the satellite was a living, alien creature, or that it stopped time and toyed with her and the other two citizens who remained in the city. But of all the things Chiaki doesn't remember, of all the amazing things she's experienced in the last three-hundred-and-some odd days, the one thing you'd think she'd be able to recall is . . . she's dead. 32 pages, B&W.
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