manga info;

When Kenji was a kid (in the late 60's-70's), he and his friends made up great adventures, fantasizing about themselves being the heros who would save everyone from a deadly terrorist attack upon the world. Now we're in the year 2000: Kenji left his rock band and all his dreams many years ago, and now works at a convenience store with his mother, also taking care of his niece, Kanna - since his sister disappeared misteriously some time ago, after being involved with a strange cult.

Everything changes when one of Kenji's childhood friends supposedly commits suicide, and when terrorist attacks begin to occur in exactly the same way they all imagined to be. It all seems to be related to that new Tomodachi cult that's getting more popular every day... Besides, to make things a little more complicated, the Tomodachi cult symbol is the same symbol Kenji's childhood friends used so many years ago to identify themselves, to call themselves true friends. So... it's obvious that the leader of the cult, the person behind the terrorist attacks who knows every idea they plotted when they were kids, must be one of them - but who? Kenji feels a lot responsible because most of the evil terrorist plans were originally his ideas, and because of that he will do his best to save the world for real. But he will be able to do it?

20th Century Boys is currently being published in Japan. Is being serialized in Weekly Big Comic Spirits, and there are 19 volumes/tankoubons so far, the last of them released on June 2005