Shotgun Boy

Shotgun Boy really had me invested throughout. I was pretty curious about the universe Carnby Kim was adding on to from Sweet Home, so I was attached to this manhwa from the start. But then the last ten or so chapters were rolling by... and then by the end, instead of "wow", or "incredible", it was more like "uh ok". MC Gyuhwan starts off as an incredibly troubled kid, in fact, hes ready to shoot up his whole class. So in a situation where he is trapped at a camp with his classmates and a ton of monsters, he and his shotgun don't really seethem all as any different. But, he slowly becomes more of a heroic character as the story moves along... dare I say, maybe even generically heroic. Like a shounen protagonist. The supporting characters are all really boring (save for maybe Zero). None of them really go anywhere, and some just killed off just to kill them off. Most of all, everyone does what you expect them to do. No one has any compelling development. Sweet Home and Bastard's characters often fell morally gray, which kept things a lot more interesting. In Shotgun Boy characters that are good do good things, and then there are characters that are evil and try to kill people. Shin-Yeong is boring, she is just Gyuhwan's sidekick. Seong-Bin is a disaster. His character was the last I expected, by being everything that you'd expect of the excessive, korean comic bully. Shotgun Boy worked pretty well to give context about how Sweet Home came to be, and the art was also very good, definitely on par with Sweet Home, despite having a new artist. On its own, I read on and it felt basic; formulaic. This is one of the stories I finish and gives me the thought: why? Why was this made? The characters and plot felt like tools to set up lore for the more interesting characters in Sweet Home. Shotgun Boy doesn't stand well on it's own. I've considered Carnby Kim to be the top of the webtoon thriller authors, but this one just felt like one of the rest. Overall a High 5 / 10

So the chaos that happened in the Sweet Home comic happened after the chaos in this comic. There are 2 entities that appear out of nowhere and can escape from the experimental lab and then create chaos, but the one that can create monsterization symptoms is an entity named Zero. In the end, Zero was devoured by another entity named One, which is where all of Zero's abilities moved to One. Not long after that, One went to the city and spread the monsterization symptoms, then the tragedy occurred in the Sweet Home comic. But the question is where is One now? He is theone who destroyed the world but his whereabouts are unknown. As far as I know, after reading Sweet Home, I no longer meet this character named One. Did he just disappear? Or is he still wandering out there?