So we see Goku’s crash-landing on Earth as a baby, meeting his adopted grandfather Son Gohan, and there’s a short story set on the homeworld of the Saiyans, Planet Vegeta, featuring Goku’s doomed birth parents, Burdock and Gi-Ne, which wasn’t bad. I’d been thinking up to then that Jaco looked a lot like Freeza and that Tights was a dead ringer for Bulma - well, turns out Jaco is connected to Freeza and Tights is Bulma’s older sister! I honestly didn’t know this when I picked it up but it turns out that this is a Dragon Ball prequel?! (I hadn’t understood that the markings “DB-11, DB-10, etc.” at the start of each chapter stood for “Dragon Ball Minus”!) Then Toriyama takes a bizarre left turn in the last 50 pages. It’s 200 pages of pointless crappy manga. Jaco is an alien policeman who crash-lands on Earth, meets an inventor and a pop star stand-in, and goes on a series of unfunny, uninteresting “adventures”. Slump, Sand Land, and now Jaco the Galactic Patrolman - the more I realise that he’s unfortunately a one-hit wonder! That said, the more I read of his non-Dragon Ball work - Dr. Dragon Ball is probably my favourite comic ever so I have a lot of time for its creator, Akira Toriyama.
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