Amazing Agent Luna

(Seven Seas, 2005-2015)
™ and © Seven Seas, Nunzio DeFilippis, Christina Weir

The job performance of America’s top secret agent, a genetically engineered 15–year–old named Luna, is slipping as she hurtles through puberty, and our government’s solution (?) is to have her enter an elite high school. There, her conflicts are both usual (romance, rivals) and unusual (a villain with a world–domination complex), which are combined in the form of Jonah, the son of her arch–enemy, Count Von Brucken.

Stories about teen spies with double lives have become ubiquitous and, while this entry in the genre doesn’t add anything new or original to it, mostly it works. The major problem is neither of the Bruckens seem to be much of a threat. Senior seems about as sinister as his separated–at–birth Marvel Comics doppelgänger Count Nefarious, and, for a supposed “bad boy,” junior is lacking in both dangerous attractiveness and smoldering moodiness. And, while this material could just as easily have been in a Western comics style, I grudgingly have to admit this is as close an approximation of manga as I’ve come across.

— S.A. Bennett

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