There’s pulp. There’s drama. And then there’s the cover of Nagraj ka Insaaf. William stands in shadowy triumph. Florida dangles above an octopus tank. And Nagraj, the eternal green warrior, fends off a mace-wielding monster. It’s all there: excess, spectacle, tension. And it works. You have seen Telo in the previous comic book. Here…
If Khooni Khoj was about shadows and whispers, Khooni Yatra is about noise. It is built on Steel, Muscle and Teeth. Gone is the slow burn of dread. This is a comic that screams, and right from the cover. Nagraj mid-fight, Florida and Don in improbable swimsuits taking down dogs, and a magician-figure (you…
After five comics, Nagraj has fought shapeshifters, mind control, gangsters in Assam, and a full-scale crime syndicate. He has broken through brainwashing, outwitted the machinations of professors and monks, and returned from his own grave. But in Khooni Khoj, he does something rare—he searches. This sixth entry feels different. We are no longer in…
This was one of the rare comics where the title carried two names—Nagraj aur Shango. Not hero and villain. Two heroes. You didn’t see that often. Much later we got Nagraj aur Super Commando Dhruva. But this came first. And it made sense. Because after how Nagraj ki Hong Kong Yatra ended, it couldn’t be Nagraj aur Chango. The story had moved…
After bringing down Bulldog in Assam in the previous book, one might expect Nagraj to rest. Maybe reflect. But this is early Nagraj—still young, still figuring out his own myth. There’s no time for recovery. No arc of healing. He boards a flight to Hong Kong, unannounced and uninvited. No mission. Just a hunch,…
At the end of the last comics, Nagraj ki Kabr, we had questions. The questions were – whether Nagraj can use some of his snake like power to save himself and Romo from the grave of hundred of tons of earth. Nagraj ka Badla (Revenge of Nagraj), the third Nagraj comics, starts from there….
In the previous post on Nagraj, I spoke about the origin story of Nagraj. The second comics of Nagraj, Nagraj ki Kabr (Grave of Nagraj), is also his first mission as a fighter for good. At the end of the first one, he is free from the mind-control capsule that Professor Naagmani had inserted…
I hope that this will be the first post in a series of several posts on things from my growing up years. My nostalgia about my childhood got triggered by my children. My elder one is twelve now, and for the past couple of years it has been quite fun to tell him that…