'Breaking the Ten, Vol. 2' by Sean Michael Wilson with art by Michiriu Morikawa continues the story of a distraught young man testing God.

In a recap, David was a devout believer until his wife and child were killed by a drunk driver. He has set out to break all of the 10 commandments in order to see if God even cares. Bystanders to the process are Mr. White and Mr. Black acting kind of like the cartoon shoulder devil and angel.

This time around, things are drawing to a close as David works on breaking the final 5 commandments, including dishonoring his father and mother. This is all leading up to the final commandment (at least in David's mind): Thou Shall Not Kill. Will David finally get an answer from God or will he commit this terrible act?

I got to read both volumes of this. David starts out as sympathetic, kind of, but by the time we get to this last half of the story, David is a real insufferable jerk. His family was taken by a random stranger, so his reasoning is that he can do the same thing? I liked the art well enough, but this story was just a little too over the top. I didn't feel like it delivered what I would have liked it to.

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Even worse than volume 1. David turns into even more of a dick as he tries to break the remaining 5 commandments including "Thou shall not murder". Just dumb and pointless.

Just a brilliant book. An Everyman character, gutted that his wife and young child have been killed in a drunk-driving car crash, challenges God to appear, else he will break all ten commandments. The fact he goes about this cry for help his way (ie not the pathetic, self-serving, self-protecting commandments first) is just one great thing about this book. Mr White and Mr Black aren't quite as you'd at first expect, either. The fact that people are not seeing the man's actions as a cry for help, but an atheist's challenge, a rhetorical request, just goes to show the point of the book is a most valid one. Both halves of it are superlative, even if you might wish for it not to be styled as a manga.