Athena Liu is a literary superstar - her sort-of-friend June Hayward is not. But after a girls’ night out goes wrong and Athena lies dead, June decides to swipe Athena’s latest manuscript - and pass it off as her own! Suddenly June’s life is transformed as she gets to experience the accolades that Athena did. But will her secret be kept… and is Athena somehow still alive?
Cobra Commander gives weapons dealer Destro some Energon to make his Battle Android Troopers (BATs) work - who then immediately uses his new robot army to stage a coup of the nation of Darklonia! But rival gun runners want what Destro has and the metal-faced baldy has to fight for his right to party.
Alley is the latest Junji Ito horror manga collection to be reprinted (it first appeared in 2011) and it’s not up there with his best. Of the 10 stories here I only really liked 2, but luckily one of them was the longest story so it’s not as bad a read as it could’ve been.
