jormungand

CREATOR

Name: VIZ Media (Japanese comics corporation based in the USA).
Personal dates: Founded 1986 in California by Japanese born Seiji Horibuchi. Ongoing.
Other creations: Too numerous to mention here. Please look under VIZ in the Creators section.
Successors: None.
Comments: The corporation publishes Manga stories and uses a variety of logos; the one to the left is one of many.

MAIN STORY

The series premiered in 2009. Stopped in 2013 after 11 issues.

The main character, a tall and slender female by the name of Koko Hekmatyar, is the leader of a team that travel the world conducting business for a shipping division that secretly transport weapons. But she also has a secret mercenary agenda which has been named Jormungand (the name has been taken from Norse mythology, in which Jörmungandr is a giant sea serpent also known as Midgårdsormen). A few of the most often recurring characters in the team are Minami Amada, Lehm Brick, and Jonathan 'Jonah' Mar.