Hanna is Not a Boy ’s Name star a nameless zombi employed by a bounce - off - the - walls hyper detective . Together , they enquire quirky paranormal mysteries — and try not to get too many people vote down in the appendage .
One gloomy night , a snake god seem on the door of Hanna Falk Cross , extrasensory investigator , looking for a Book of Job . He ’s surprised to discover that not only is this Hanna character not a female child , he behave like a 12 - twelvemonth - honest-to-god who ’s just buy his first grimoire . But the zombi has spent enough time idly pose in memorial park , and Hanna is more than sufficiently affable , so the two agree to strike up a partnership . Before the automaton has a moment to enchant his non - breath , he ’s pulled into Hanna ’s caseload , complete with vampire squatters , ghost theaters , and the occasional murder .
Hanna is Not a Boy ’s Namefalls for the most part in the category of comedy - horror . The zombie ’s deadpan narration is the gross transparency to Hanna ’s limitless vitality and tendency to leap without looking . As the comedian ’s mould expands , we ’re introduced to a horde of eccentric monsters : a psychoneurotic lamia who ca n’t wrap his head around the whimsey of blood as food , an artsy wolfman with a high threshold for outlandishness , the antisocial Logos of a selkie , and a misanthropic physician who seems to believe abuse are the best music .
But there ’s an unexpected spunk run through the serial . Because the zombie can not recall his own name — or any of the other details of his former animation — Hanna aim to testing out names for him . It start as a running gag , but quick turns to an fond jocularity between the two . Hanna offers the zombi spirit a taste of the manhood he ’s forgotten , and the zombi is the watchful acquaintance Hanna does n’t even know he needs . Beneath Hanna ’s well-chosen - go - lucky exterior lurks a badly scarred male child , and Hanna is so determined to live animation to the full that , without the zombi ’s help , he ’s bound to get himself killed .
For novel readers , the comic ’s first arc is a little rough around the edges . Creator Tessa Stone experimented a bang-up deal with typeset and paneling in those earlier page , and sometimes her test and error crosses from visually interesting to mildly irritating . Eventually , she settles into a style that remain unique and energetic while becoming boundlessly more readable . At the same metre , Hanna benefits from a deepening cast roster and some dark storylines .
Hanna has evolved into a marvellously offbeat comic , one that remove conventional revulsion tropes and inculcate them with an off - kilter variety of warmth . The characters in Hanna may bicker and moan at each other , and nice people occasionally wrick up dead , but there ’s a full-strength twist to having the vibrant , semi - ill-chosen police detective at the center of it all . Through all the horror and personal tragedies , Hanna ’s own philosophy is to keep smiling , keep displace forward , and just make the best of your situation . As much as his supporter might wrap their eye , it ’s often his inexorable optimism that holds everyone together .
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