Pluto: Urasawa X Tezuka, Vol. 1 -- Naoki Urasawa

Who Killed Astro Boy? <p/>In an ideal world where man and robots coexist, someone or some<i>thing</i> has destroyed the powerful Swiss robot Mont Blanc. Elsewhere a key figure in a robot rights group is murdered. The two incidents appear to be unrelated...except for one very conspicuous clue - the bodies of both victims have been fashioned into some sort of bizarre collage complete with makeshift horns placed by the victims' heads. Interpol assigns robot detective Gesicht to this most strange and complex case - and he eventually discovers that he too, as one of the seven great robots of the world, is one of the targets.<br><br><b>Author:</b> Naoki Urasawa, Takashi Nagasaki<br><b>Publisher:</b> Viz Media<br><b>Published:</b> 02/01/2009<br><b>Pages:</b> 200<br><b>Binding Type:</b> Paperback<br><b>Weight:</b> 0.62lbs<br><b>Size:</b> 8.10h x 5.70w x 0.80d<br><b>ISBN:</b> 9781421519180<br><br><b>Review Citation(s): </b><br><i>Publishers Weekly</i> 12/08/2008 pg. 49<br><i>Library Journal</i> 05/15/2009 pg. 57<br><i>Christian Century</i> 12/15/2009 pg. 25<br><i>ALA Graphic Novels for Teens</i> 03/01/2010 pg. 22<br><p><b>About the Author</b><br>Naoki Urasawa's career as a manga artist spans more than twenty years and has firmly established him as one of the true manga masters of Japan. Born in Tokyo in 1960, Urasawa debuted with <i>BETA!</i> in 1983 and hasn't stopped his impressive output since. Well-versed in a variety of genres, Urasawa's oeuvre encompasses a multitude of differe