Demon<\/em> is my\u00a0gleeful homage to the lurid and pulpy entertainment rags that make up the detritus of our childhoods.”<\/p>\nShiga’s protagonist Jimmy Yee just can’t die. He\u00a0started with attempting\u00a0suicide \u2013 five times. In spite of a perfect success rate,\u00a0Jimmy himself somehow lives on. When he wakes up (again) in\u00a0a hospital bed, greeted by\u00a0a daughter and then a wife he doesn’t recognize, he moves beyond just trying to depart from this world\u00a0to actively\u00a0figuring out just what’s going on.<\/p>\n
Here’s what Jimmy knows: his actual wife and young daughter are dead. Their killer was a drunk driver now sitting in a federal prison. His daughter would have turned 10 this week, and Jimmy made plans\u00a0for revenge. But things went awry, Jimmy became a murderer by mistake, and so he decided\u00a0get “out” at the end of rope. What he has to unravel\u00a0is how he keeps\u00a0coming back \u2013 albeit in other people’s bodies. Casually and constantly, the body count grows: the hospital tries to stop him, the police join in, OSS\u00a0agents get called, the penal system locks him up, but Jimmy always manages to\u00a0stay alive … and running.<\/p>\n
Get ready for a grotesque, freakish, morbid, outlandish, shock-stricken funhouse ride. And prepare for more. With the promise of Volume 2 on the final page, death marches on! Talk about dark, dark<\/em>,\u00a0guilty-glee, ahem!<\/p>\nReaders<\/strong>: Adult<\/p>\nPublished<\/strong>: 2016<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Warning first: This is NOT NOT NOT for kids. For us old folks, however … well,\u00a0“this story is going to blow your mind,” bestselling, innovative graphic novelist\/webcomic creator Jason Shiga\u00a0promises\u00a0in his “Foreword.”\u00a0“Demon is my\u00a0gleeful homage to the lurid and pulpy entertainment rags that make up…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":41403,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,21,6,73,426],"tags":[6608,75,7144,10,242,397,2149,212,216,42,7145,35,195],"class_list":["post-41554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-adult-readers","category-chinese-american","category-fiction","category-graphic-novel-manga-manwha","category-japanese-american","tag-bookdragon","tag-death","tag-demon","tag-family","tag-horror-ghost-story","tag-humor","tag-jason-shiga","tag-murder","tag-mystery","tag-series","tag-series-demon","tag-speculative-fantasy","tag-suicide"],"yoast_head":"\n
Demon (Volume 1) by Jason Shiga - BookDragon<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/demon-volume-1-jason-shiga\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Demon (Volume 1) by Jason Shiga - BookDragon\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Warning first: This is NOT NOT NOT for kids. For us old folks, however … well,\u00a0“this story is going to blow your mind,” bestselling, innovative graphic novelist\/webcomic creator Jason Shiga\u00a0promises\u00a0in his “Foreword.”\u00a0“Demon is my\u00a0gleeful homage to the lurid and pulpy entertainment rags that make up...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/demon-volume-1-jason-shiga\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"BookDragon\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2016-10-14T15:33:54+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2017-02-01T19:51:20+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2016\/08\/Demon-by-Jason-Shiga-on-BookDragon.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"700\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"880\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@SmithsonianAPA\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Demon (Volume 1) by Jason Shiga - BookDragon","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/demon-volume-1-jason-shiga\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Demon (Volume 1) by Jason Shiga - BookDragon","og_description":"Warning first: This is NOT NOT NOT for kids. For us old folks, however … well,\u00a0“this story is going to blow your mind,” bestselling, innovative graphic novelist\/webcomic creator Jason Shiga\u00a0promises\u00a0in his “Foreword.”\u00a0“Demon is my\u00a0gleeful homage to the lurid and pulpy entertainment rags that make up...","og_url":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/demon-volume-1-jason-shiga\/","og_site_name":"BookDragon","article_published_time":"2016-10-14T15:33:54+00:00","article_modified_time":"2017-02-01T19:51:20+00:00","og_image":[{"width":700,"height":880,"url":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2016\/08\/Demon-by-Jason-Shiga-on-BookDragon.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_creator":"@SmithsonianAPA","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center","Est. reading time":"1 minute"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/demon-volume-1-jason-shiga\/","url":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/demon-volume-1-jason-shiga\/","name":"Demon (Volume 1) by Jason Shiga - BookDragon","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/#website"},"datePublished":"2016-10-14T15:33:54+00:00","dateModified":"2017-02-01T19:51:20+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/#\/schema\/person\/a00f6dcfcb279c75f3f992ad2919d51d"},"breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/demon-volume-1-jason-shiga\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/demon-volume-1-jason-shiga\/"]}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/demon-volume-1-jason-shiga\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Demon (Volume 1) by Jason Shiga"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/#website","url":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/","name":"BookDragon","description":"Books for the Diverse Reader","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/#\/schema\/person\/a00f6dcfcb279c75f3f992ad2919d51d","name":"Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/79b5f08575e8962bd00388cd126d374b?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/79b5f08575e8962bd00388cd126d374b?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"Smithsonian Asian Pacific American Center"},"sameAs":["https:\/\/twitter.com\/@SmithsonianAPA"],"url":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/author\/riemert\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41554"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41554"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41554\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41561,"href":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41554\/revisions\/41561"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
![\"Demon](\"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2016\/08\/Demon-by-Jason-Shiga-on-BookDragon-636x800.jpg\")
Warning first: This is NOT NOT NOT for kids.<\/p>\n