Gold Digger Highly recommended

Publisher
Antarctic Press
Writer
Fred Perry
Artist
Fred Perry
Country of origin
Japan
Year
1993

Gold Digger Pocket Manga Volume 4

By David Rasmussen
14th Apr 07

Ah, another week of Golden Age Gold Digger. And look, I don’t have nearly as much complaints about these reviews as I did with Gold Digger the OAV. Go figure.

At the end of the whole demon rat thing story Britanny was reunited with the spirit of her late natural birth mother (as opposed to the spirit of her late adopted mother which would be impossible since her adopted mother is neither “late” or a “spirit”). I won’t go into it, but it covers the circumstances of how Britanny became an orphan, and lays the groundwork for what is to come this volume.

But forget about that for now, we’re taking a trip south, south, south of the border… no, not Taco Bell, I’m talking Antarctica and a love connection between a female doggified Genn (our lovable shapeshifting secondary character) and a megalomaniac dog guy from Ninja High School, all the while investigating an abandoned spaceship city (continuing a storyarc from last volume).
I’m sure there’s a completely funny story about this love at first sight event but I better keep it to myself.

Then, just in time to say I missed tying this into St. Patrick’s Day, a trip to Ireland raises the ire of the wee folk who are abit paranoid about losing their gold making machine. Sure, forget the fact they’re wasting precious water to make gold but let’s not think of the depletion of natural resources. Running from the hyperactive little fellas (who happen to have the assistance of Gina’s old rival Penny Pincer), leads them to an accidental confrontation with the werewolf clan. This shouldn’t be too bad as the events of Gold Digger Volume 2 paved over any ill feelings with the wolves, right? Well… not so much. Britanny flips out and goes crazy for a little while in their presence, not good.

Things get straightened out but it leads to the discovery that a certain someone (responsible for bringing about the death of Britanny’s birth family’s clan) has escaped from his custom made painful prison cage (bought lovingly a few centuries ago from the Kratos’ Secret store over in old Sparta). He didn’t go far, though, he’s going to be needed for the next storyarc.

That arc, which ends open ended here (the second part of it in Volume 5) brings back Gina’s mom (whose story is here for you to absorb), and sets the stage for a reckoning between the Diggers and the one who caused the long time “separation” between mother and family, the formerly good now turned evil grandpa Diggers aka Lich King (the Evil Corporate Donald Trump of the Undead)… really.
Having a certain character from Ninja High School drop in for a cameo was nice as well.

Breakdown? Sure. But you know what I’m going to say.
Another piece of an even dozen books heralding the Golden Age of Gold Digger, it’s drawn well, written well, and is filled with lovable characters and well crafted stories that run like a well written ongoing soap opera which continues to this very day (OBJECTION!).
Yes, that means one more 5 out of 5 for the series. Here you go, Volume 4, enjoy.

Gold Digger © & ™ Fred Perry

-- David Rasmussen 14th Apr 07