Image with several Dragon Ball Z characters flying over a city
Dragon Ball Z is not simply a series of spectacular fights. It is a solid narrative construction that expands the universe created by Akira Toriyama and transforms a youth adventure into an epic about identity, inheritance and improvement.
Akhran, the wandering god, fears that his peer Quar will subjugate the rest of the deities. To prevent this, he orders that Zohra and Khardan, sons of chiefs of enemy tribes, enter into a marriage that cannot be broken until the Prophet's rose blooms. Thus begins one of the most forgotten works of the legendary literary duo of epic fantasy, Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman.
The anime Mazinger Z caused a sensation in Spain in the late 70s. So much so that the Taiwanese film The Iron Superman was brought to our country as Mazinger Z: the robot of the stars. To take advantage of the momentum, Editorial Valenciana would release its own version of the latter.
Cover of Muy Top, by Paco Roca
In recent years, the world of comics and Spanish graphic novels has seen a boom, and, of all the authors, one of the most prominent is the Valencian Paco Roca. His traditional and familiar stories, where past and present often intersect, have made the leap to audiovisual format on more than one occasion. Here we present five of his works.