![]() ![]() Secretly the Noh also acts to maintain the balance of crime and order that ultimately benefits the national economy on both sides of the law and thus targets politicians, businessmen and certain underworld kingpins whose actions threaten this balance. The agency itself exists as part of Japan's strict police state, which hunts down and brutally executes criminals for their misdeeds under the veil of keeping the peace. The Noh is controlled by a renowned World War II Japanese military man known as the General, who has achieved much power and status for being a brilliant military tactician during his many years of service. ![]() ![]() In the first volume of the series, The Noh's nature and background is explained. Set in an alternate near-future Japan, a young woman codenamed "Kabuki", acts as an agent and television law-enforcement personality for a clandestine government body known as "The Noh". The series has been collected into several trade paperbacks, which include several one-shots and spin-off limited series. The 2004-2009 miniseries, Kabuki: The Alchemy, was published by Marvel Comics under its imprint Icon Comics. ![]() It is a story of an assassin who struggles with her identity in near-future Japan. Kabuki is a comic book series created by artist and writer David Mack, first published in 1994 by Caliber comics in KABUKI: Fear The Reaper 48 page comic book (with an 8 pg promotional peek at the story in High Caliber earlier that year). ![]()
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