BLACK & WHITE

Skirmish 1

Welcome to Our Monkey House

  • Story and Art by Taiyo Matsumoto

  • Translation by Lillian Olsen

  • English Adaptation by Annette Roman

  • Lettering & Touch-Up Art by Cynthia Bergst

  • ©1997 Taiyo Matsumoto/Shogakukan inc

White is walking around town singing his new made-up song and meets up with Black who says, ‘Its playtime’. Meanwhile there is a police interrogation occurring between 2 officers and a man in a jacket labeled North Dragon. Black and White 4 no 5 ‘monkeys’ and say they will finish them off in 10 seconds since white can now count to 10. They jump (fly?) into action from what looks like rooftops. In the interrogation room the officers are talking crazy, and the North Dragon tells them they are not serious.

Five guys are walking and trying to impress each other. One met Jim Carrey and another saw Tiffany. A glass bottle crashes right in front of them. White appears before them and demands money followed by telling them that Chinese monkeys need clouds to fly. The ‘five monkeys’ try to get white to leave by ridiculing him and pushing him while saying to crawl back up his mother’s hole before white proclaims that “ten seconds means ten one seconds”. White kicks one and takes a bat to another’s head. Black shows up with a pipe and the two of them leave the ‘5 monkeys’ a bloody mess.

There is a knock on the interrogation room door and the officers are informed of what happened. The officer calls them ‘cats’, juvenile delinquents, orphaned little demons who infest treasure town. The North Dragon says they can ‘fly’. Black and White are on top of electric poles saying that a lot of cops are looking for them now but nobody will break them because everyone else is garbage.