Category: Journey to the West

Journey 013: I Shalt Not Kill?

Sun Wukong and his new master have a difference of opinion on when it’s ok for a Buddhist monk to spill someone’s brains and loot their clothes.

Journey Supplemental 003: Body Snatchers

All’s well that ends well, except for the princess whose soul gets dragged out of her mortal coil and hustled off to hell.

Journey 012: Demons, Tigers, Monkeys, Oh My

Everybody kept telling me how dangerous the journey to the West was, but seriously how bad can it possibly … oh my god what are those things and what are they doing to my men?!!!

Journey Supplemental 002: To Hell and Back

Somehow a trip to the underworld adds decades to the Tang emperor’s life.

Journey 011: Divine Mission

Guanyin crashes the emperor’s Buddhist party and tells all the monks of the East what she really thinks of their scriptures.

Journey Supplemental 001: When It Rains

We embark on a three-episode mini-arc to find out why the Tang emperor was convening a big gathering of monks.

Journey 010: Miracle Worker

The blind regains sight, and the dead rises. Is it a miracle … or a zombie apocalypse?

Journey 009: Origin Story

The Buddha shows how far he would go (or make someone else go) to avoid paying to ship some scriptures to the East.

Journey 008: Handover of Heaven

Sun Wukong makes a high-stakes wager with heaven’s latest mediator.

Journey 007: Crossover Clashes

Sun Wukong proves to be such a handful that heaven has to go get a hero from another novel to take him on.