In the second, I feared for Yukichi's life when he crossed paths with an old enemy of his uncle's. That doesn't sound like all that much but both were vintage Sakai with questions of honor, moral dilemmas, and bad guys being cut down. The second involves Usagi and Yukichi chasing down some bandits.

The first story involves Usagi and Yukichi getting ensnared in one of Kitsune's thefts.

This was my favorite Usagi volume since the series moved to IDW. I don't know how he does it but Stan Sakai has kept up a high standard of quality for forty years at this point. Usagi Yojimbo: Crossroads collects Usagi Yojimbo #22-26. His favorite movie is Satomi Hakkenden (1959). He also made a futuristic spin-off series Space Usagi. First published in 1984, the comic continues to this day, with Sakai as the lone author and nearly-sole artist (Tom Luth serves as the main colorist on the series, and Sergio Aragonés has made two small contributions to the series: the story 'Broken Ritual' is based on an idea by Aragonés, and he served as a guest inker for the black and white version of the story 'Return to Adachi Plain' that is featured in the Volume 11 trade paper-back edition of Usagi Yojimbo). He began his career by lettering comic books (notably Groo the Wanderer by Sergio Aragonés and Mark Evanier) and became famous with the production of Usagi Yojimbo, the epic saga of Miyamoto Usagi, a samurai rabbit living in late-sixteenth and early-seventeenth-century Japan. He and his wife, Sharon, presently reside and work in Pasadena. He later attended the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California. Stan Sakai (Japanese: 坂井スタンSakai Sutan born May 25, 1953) is an artist who became known as an Eisner Award-winning comic book originator.īorn in Kyoto, Sakai grew up in Hawaii and studied fine arts at the University of Hawaii.

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