Jack Frost
Jack Frost is a violent psychopath who lives in an alternate dimension of Amityville, where various districts of a large city are in perpetual mortal combat with each other. Noh-A is a visitor from our world who gets stuck in Amityville after one of her recurring dreams about being a conscious yet beheaded, er, head becomes real. It turns out Noh-A’s blood can heal Jack Frost, which is great for Jack because he loves to get in violent to-the-death fights with other thugs from around Amityville. Or something like that.
From the first issue, I felt that Jack Frost is easily the least enjoyable comic in Yen Press; after about issue 10 or so, I simply stopped reading it and now just skip it every month. I’ll freely admit that I don’t understand the plot’s substance, but it could be that the plot simply has no substance to understand. Jack Frost seems to move from one bloodbath to another without motivation, and Noh-A’s character is similarly flat and doesn’t seem to have much interesting to do, despite supposedly being a main character. (She spends much of the first few issues as a decapitated head, spawning a whole lot of thought balloons but not doing anything else.) The fights are ridiculously gory; blood splatters, spilled guts, severed limbs, you name it. And the fanservice feels exploitative, especially since most female characters besides Noh-A are rather insanely proportioned. Jack Frost is a fun vacuum, and I think Yen Plus would be much better without it - at the very least, they could save a few cents from not having to use so much black ink creator JinHo Ko uses for all the blood splatters and general moody darkness.
Despite how much I despise it, the comic seems to have its fans (perhaps in the same way Charles Manson has fans).
