BANANA FISH
Chapter 1
Last Words
Story and Art by Akimi Yoshida
English Adaptation by Matt Thorn
Lettering and Touch-Up art by Cato
© 1997 Akimi Yoshida/ Shogakukan inc.
1973 Vietnam – US soldiers are relaxing in a half-destroyed building chatting about someone who died from a drug and singing. Griffin comes back from ‘taking a piss’ and starts firing at everyone with a machine gun. One of the soldiers is able to shoot him in the legs and get him to fall and stop firing. The try to get him to speak but all he says is ‘Banana Fish’.
1985 The Bronx, NYC – A lady finds her husband dead from a slit throat. Suicide? Cops say there was another body on the property that was his bodyguard also from a slit throat. This is the third weird suicide in their jurisdiction this year.
Lower East side the same day – A man (Ash) comes across an injured man saying help me. When Ash stops to check on him, he is handed something and told an address in Los Angeles. The guy dies and two other men come around the corner. Ash asks what all this is about, and they are surprised to see him there and call him BOSS. After demanding an answer, they tell him that DINO told them to do it. Sirens in background so Ash tells the other two to get out of there and he goes himself to talk to DINO.
