A review by miguel
Master Keaton, Vol. 4 by Takashi Nagasaki, Naoki Urasawa

5.0

Master Keaton's engagement with complex political issues of the 80s and 90s continues to impress. It's baffling how Urasawa, Katsushika, and Nagasaki could have collectively had the immense amount of knowledge required for producing Keaton's stories. They possessed not just knowledge, but an incisive ideological bent that comes through incredibly strong in this volume's chapters. "Master Keaton's Situation," a chapter that addresses South African apartheid, is especially strong. In large part, this volume consists of high stakes chapters and lengthy story arcs, with the more intimate low-key chapters coming at the end of the volume.