Outrageous superpowered wrestlers! Kid Muscle, the son of legendary wrestler King Muscle, rockets to Earth and finds an evil wrestling gang called the DMP tearing the place apart. The punks on the DMP are the weirdest, nastiest, most outlandishly powerful musclebound freaks the galaxy has ever known. Kid Muscle's only hope: form a team that's even wilder. The only possible result is earthshaking, bodyslamming, ultimate-powered action that sends our entire planet sailing over the top rope! When Kid Muscle made a quick trip across the galaxy to visit the folks back home, he expected to take some heat about his not-so-heroic shenanigans on Earth. But he didn't expect the government of Planet Muscle--including his dear old dad--to put him through his paces by enrolling him in a tournament to the death! Now the Kid is taking on No Respect, a gang of reprobates who are all tickled pink by the opportunity to send him into traction. Ironic, since Kid Muscle's the one who gets no respect...not from Forkolossus, the half-man, half-forklift currently squaring off against him in the ring...not from planet-hopping wrestling legend Ninja Ned, who pops in to find out what the Sam Hill is going on down on Planet Muscle and ain't pleased to find a bloodbath in progress...and certainly not from Checkmate, the evil wrestler Kid Muscle defeated seven whole volumes ago, who materializes, mid-match, for reasons unknown...

Author Biography

Yudetamago is the pen name of artists Yoshinori Nakai and Takashi Shimada, who created the original hit KINNIKUMAN (MUSCLE MAN). KINNIKUMAN, which debuted in 1979, quickly grew into a massive slapstick wrestling epic and one of the most popular features in Japan's Weekly Shonen Jump magazine. ULTIMATE MUSCLE (known in Japan as KINNIKUMAN II SEI) is Yudetamago's most recent creation.