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[[File:kabu_7203.jpg|frame|Our heroine and her mask]]
''Kabuki'' is a comic book published by [[Marvel
▲''Kabuki'' is a comic book published by Marvel Comicss, a ''weird'' comic book published by Marvel. Written and, for the most part, illustrated by David Mack. It reads more like an illustrated novel than anything else. Forgoing standard action panels with speach bubble in favor of heavily utilizing abstract pictures, poetry and [[Purple Prose]]. In addition to the normal drawings several photographs, photo-shopped photographs, sculptures, paintings, and sometimes even actual objects like flowers applied ''directly to the page'', the artwork ''will'' catch a reader off guard. [http://imageshack.us/f/811/kabukiartpage.jpg/ an example of the abstract pages] Believe it or not you can actually tell what's going on when you read. [[Crowning Moment of Funny|Apparently, Mack also uses crayons.]] Though there are [http://imageshack.us/f/510/kabukinormal.jpg/ normal chapters] written and drawn like any other comic, the more psychoanalytic arcs tend to use abstract artwork
The story itself is simple enough: a [[Cyberpunk]] setting in which a group of assassins, all of them female, work for a mysterious masked man. Think a [[Darker and Edgier]] ''[[Charlie's Angels]]''. Our heroine is Kabuki, a girl whose mother was taken by the Japanese to serve as a comfort woman during [[World War II]]. However, she was sent to a general whose definition of comfort woman differed from the usual and instead of having them perform sex acts, he had them perform classic kabuki theater. The general's son wasn't happy with this: He raped and killed the general's wife, Kabuki's mother. And then he killed Kabuki herself, after carving the Japanese symbol for "kabuki" on the side of her face. She was officially dead for a only a few minutes. Fast forward a few years, and Kabuki is questioning exactly why the general trained her to be the greatest assassin to ever live.
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In addition to the main Kabuki plot, we get a look into the other characters' lives.
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* [[Action Girl]]: All eight Noh agents
* [[Cool Mask]]: All eight Noh agents wear painted porcelain masks when "in character".
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