Demon: Volume 4 by Jason Shiga, 174 pages.Jason Shiga's extremely, extremely absurd series about immortal beings who escape death by possessing and inhabiting the nearest living body, when the body they had been in expires, continues and adds to the enormous body count. Jimmy, the main demon in the story, estimates that he has killed 6,000,012 people over the course of the series and is therefore worse than Hitler. Jimmy and his daughter discuss what it means to commit to what they are doing; Sweetpea will follow her father's lead in all situations and Jimmy tries to balance making his daughter happy with revenging himself on Hunter, the OSS agent who has tried to really end Jimmy's life.
I really admire Shiga's willingness to explore the rules of his world all the way out as far as he can go. The whole series makes for a relatively quick and fun read.
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