The Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service, Vol. 7 (v. 7)
There are six deliveries (i.e., chapters) but only three stories in the seventh KCDS collection. The single-delivery first caper arises from one of the KCDS’ frequent nonprofessional engagements (gotta pay the bills, y’know) that has the three male members resorting to robotics to help with a gravestone-schlepping job. The two-delivery second scenario, in which cosmetic surgery meets embryonic stem-cell manipulation, is just as clever and a lot creepier. The third, longest case, involving murders on a movie set, is the weakest conceptually, but the series’ deft blending of gore and gags keeps it highly amusing. Nobody does horror-comedy comics better than Otsuka and Yamazaki. --Ray Olson