Keyman have quickly become one of those mangas where I am awaiting every new scanlation release with excitement. It is not the funniest, the most action filled or the best drawn art, but from chapter one it have been a tightly woven story with solid characters and great balance between action, plot, comedy and character development, set in an awesome film noir world that is perfect for the story. It is heavily influenced by american action comics - it even have english SFX - but this never gets self referential to the point where it looses focus and becomes a meta comic.

Story wise I love how it manages to keep so many threads going without it becomes unfocused, we have the racism and the rich who suppress the poor, we have Detective Alex messy private life and his cougar, I mean Lynx ex wife, we have Dr Necro and her backstory, and of course the main plot with the Keymen which is a great action/superhero story that ensures that there is not one boring second in this manga. A certain warning to y'all though, this is a very "seinenesque" plot, almost as if you'd turn "Chinatown" into a comedy with dinosaurs in it, and if you expect something straight forward I'm sure you'll be disappointed.

Even if this is tagged as ecchi on certain manga reader sites, I'd say this is not not really a relevant tag. Sure, it pays homage to the american styled scantily clad heroines, and Dr Nekro is a 112 year old loli (!), but the female characters are way too strong and cool to become fan service, and it is beyond both traditional american and japanese comics in terms of how much space the female characters have in the story.