If you love a good story, Trace should definitely be in your reading list.
The art is unique and absolutely well done; the characters are each uniquely wonderful and oddly refreshing.
Trace has a original story that is both kick ass and heart wrenching, it is so good that I guarantee you will spend the entire day finishing it. You might think, 'oh another story where some people have powers' well the thing is that these powers are pretty damn unique. Not just your typical, 'I can fly' 'I can create fire!' 'I can read minds!' because that is pretty boring. Instead there's a whole array of different types of power each characters has and even some typical ones are portrayed in a different way. The romance in the story isn't laid thick but it fits perfectly and is very sweet. The action is great, there is a lot of great fighting scenes, that is neither hard to follow or badly drawn. Not just any simple panels of different 'poses' but you can see the actual movement in each panel and follow it easily. Seriously, this is one of the best fighting scenes I've seen in a long time and it's in color!
Like I said before, go check it out NOW!

Oh about the ending everyone is having a BF about, there's a sequel to this series SOOOOO... Enjoy~

... Last updated on March 17th, 2012, 7:17pm

One of the most interesting, invigorating, exciting, well-thought-out, and thought-provoking series I've ever read. It's what got me hooked on web-comics and what I hold many other series up to. Definitely, definitely, definitely read this. Easily deserving of its award and should be on any manhwa reader's "must-read" list.

bleach execution with shin angyo onshi story level content
amazing art that seems to constantly get better and better (AND MORE each chapter as well)
like cocaine
perfect story

I haven't read something that kept me wanting more in a long time. I'm really enjoying this one. I'm perfectly fine with all the characters. usually there is always one character I would dislike but I'm content with all of them. It's really a interesting read I always wanted to read something exactly like this and I found it. I'm really enjoying it. The format of the web comic is more easier to read than I thought. I'm glad I found this, not everyone would enjoy this but I certianly do.

The fact that it is a webcomic definitely changes the layout of the panels therefore how the story is told but it works really well. Plus the fact that it often focuses on one action for more than just one moment helps to build the mood and makes it easier (to me anyway) to follow a lot of the fights. The plot is very much character driven and often the chapters seem disjointed because of that but all in all it manages to pull it off very well. I love it.

This manhwa was sooo good. Well.... the story until the ending, at least. At first I was kind of skeptical about reading this since the plot summary didn't seem all that interesting to me. However, once I started reading it, it was so gripping I had to stay up all night to finish it in one go. If not for the crappy ending, I would rate this an 8 or 9 for sure (point deduction because after the first episode of the story, my favorite characters were not really focused on). But the ending sucked and completely ruined it. The resolution was good, but the sequence leading up to it was pretty lame. It seemed forcibly 'epic' and suddenly was way too 'end of the world' like for me; it just seemed like I was reading a whole different comic. Sigh.

... Last updated on November 27th, 2011, 1:09pm

this is a pertty damn good Manhwa and it's a webcomic at that! I wish the listing was more up to date but I highly suggest anyone to read it as it has such a captivating plot

I was kind of expecting something above average because of all the recommendations but it wasn't all that good as people make it out to be at all. The only thing capturing you was the plot. The plot was interesting. The characters were typical except the one in the shadows of course.
I don't know why but at first, there seemed to be like 5 main characters and it takes like a volume to talk about one. Once you get settled in with the character and want to know what happens next to that character, they kept switching it. That was really frustrating.
Then, towards the end you realize that the 4 characters they spent so much time developing were barely important. Or at least.. a waste of time.
It wasn't written too well either, most things were confusing and everything you question and wonder about just came bursting all at once causing it to feel rushed. I noticed there was barely any explaining of anything. Like all the characters just questioned it at first then simply accepted the fact that they got supernatural powers and never got to any real scientific explanation of any sort or any attempt at all.
The ending was typical and not good, very rushed as the manhwaka admitted.

There were small little plot-lines hidden inside this work that I enjoyed, however, much of the story was so freaking boring and tedious. It took so many pages to tell such small little stories. I wanted to like it more but the boredom was hard to get through.

Trace revolves around couple of protagonists who are part of "Traces", a group of unrelated people who randomly gain super powers of unknown origin. The high point of manhwa is depiction how these Traces are treated by society-- with the flair for drama Korean storytelling is famous for.

Art is bit rudimentary (especially backgrounds), but the style characters are drawn is different from most Japanese and Korean comics, which is welcome. Being a webcomic, it's mostly in color. Drawback is use of ugly Photoshop effects instead of manual drawing.

Interesting stories told from different individuals' points of view are tied to together in an unfortunately lackluster deus ex machina ending. This is supposed to be part 1, but frankly I haven't got much interest for the part 2 if it continues like the ending. I've got a feeling that the author got bored or stuck with the series and wanted to end it quickly.

... Last updated on October 28th, 2010, 10:51am