Doctor Du Ming

Imeant to post this yesterday but hey, the 2nd is just as spoopy as the 1st to start this year's Halloween Spectacular!!!!!! Too many exclamation points? My sister and I already put up our Halloween Town on the fireplace mantle, we love the season so. While I still have to do everything on my phone, I I hope I can find some good scary manga this year.

Doctor Du Ming by Jing Zhang and Jinglong Han

Sorry about the poor image quality

Genre: Seinen, Suspense, Horror
Length: One Volume - 15 Chapters


           The art is very smooth and pretty, and the eyes have a dark and mysterious depth in

them. Appealing, though at times a bit vacant, but that adds to the suspense because it's so hard to guess what exactly anyone is thinking. There's not a lot of action in this but activity is pretty static, almost stagnant. The body anatomy and clothing are fitting and the backgrounds are good. I think there isn't a lot of memorable originality but it is high quality.
           Du Ming is an anesthesiologist who is very low energy and almost detached from life, despite his handsome face. When he gets a call from an old colleague that shakes him, he lets some of his calm slip, though because the woman he fell in love with and obsessed over since college has suddenly committed suicide.
           Just a little spooky story to start off the season, more suspense than gore, but there's some good elements in it, too. I don't believe I've reviewed very many Chinese manhua, and I almost didn't review this one because of its slow start. The deceptively mundane plot of a doctor who is indifferent

to just about every part of life. Then, suddenly the perspective of this man shifts and you're smack dab in the middle of a faceted horror story. Its not really one you might have guessed at the beginning of the story, either. Personally I had a point where I went 'Oh, he's liket hat, huh?' and gained much more interest from then on. It's not overly complicated but it has a few points that can be mulled and connected as you go and think about at the end. If you're looking for a suspense comic about the darkness of dangerous love this is a good example.


3/5 A little slow, but an interesting read.

And because it is my favorite Halloween meme: