Antique Manga: Grey

Looking through a big remaindered-and-used book store, I happened to notice a wrapped-up package on an upper shelf near the back issues of comics on the top floor. Recognising what was inside the plastic got me thinking back to university, where I'd been in the science fiction club for a while. The club was neither large nor very active, but it did have an office crowded with old books. One day in that office, I found on the shelves something somewhat between a black-and-white "floppy" comic book and a thick, "respectable" graphic novel, an artifact from the early days of trying to sell manga over here, one instalment of a "post-apocalyptic dystopian science fiction action" series called Grey. At the time, though, it still wasn't that dissimilar from the way what manga could be found over here was presented; I suppose I must admit what really made it stick in my mind was the scene where the titular Grey's female companion goes to take a shower just before another attack starts, leading to the memorable exchange "You fight better without your clothes." "Because I don't want to die naked!"
( Now, long years later... )