Usagi trade question

Space Wolf · Post by **Space Wolf** » Tue Feb 03, 2009 7:32 -0700

Hi everyone, been a long time since last time I posted. I have a sort of dilemma on my hands.

A while back a good friend and co-worker and I were talking. She has a 9 year old daughter discovering comics and I have been selling the praise of Usagi to her. Now my friend is Japanese and has samurai descandants. (I found that totally cool). Anyway, I told her about Usagi and how well loved it is by all his fans and how I think her daughter would enjoy it.

Finally, after many months of telling her this, I brought in my entire Usagi trade collection, including Space Usagi, and up to the most recent issues I had, and told her to give them to her daughter to read. She did and her daughter loved it. She loved them so much in fact she began to read them over and over. When I found out how much she enjoyed them I told her that they can keep them which made her little girl's day.

So now my dilemma is this. I need to rebuy the trades, but it has been so long since I had to do this I am not sure where to start. Can someone send me a list of the trades titles and chronological order they go in? Are they all still available?

Thanks in advance!

Post by **Steve Hubbell** » Tue Feb 03, 2009 10:32 -0700

Book 01 – Ronin
The Goblin of Adachigahara
Lone Rabbit and Child
The Confession
Bounty Hunter
Horse Thief
Village of Fear
A Quiet Meal
Blind Swordspig
Homecoming
Bounty Hunter II

Book 02 – Samurai
Introduction – Mark Evanier
Samurai part 1
Samurai part 2
Samurai part 3
Samurai part 4
Samurai part 5
Samurai part 6
Samurai part 7
Samurai part 8
Samurai part 9
Kappa
Zylla
Silk Fair

Book 03 – The Wanderer’s Road
Introduction – Robert Asprin
The Tower
A Mother’s Love
Return of the Blind Swordspig
The Blade of the Gods
The Tea Cup
The Shogun’s Gift
Turtle Soup and Rabbit Stew

Book 04 – The Dragon Bellow Conspiracy
Introduction - Alejandro Jodorowsky
The Clouds Gather
The Winds Howl
Downpour
Thunder and Lightning
In the Heart of the Storm
Storm Clouds Part
Fate of the Blind Swordspig

Book 5 – Lone Goat and Kid
Introduction – Stan Lee
Frost and Fire
A Kite Story
Blood Wings
The Way of the Samurai
Lone Goat and Kid

Book 06 – Circles
Introduction – Jeff Smith
The Bridge
The Duel
Yurei
My Lord’s daughter
Circles

Book 07 – Gen’s Story
Introduction – Sergio Aragones
Kitsune
Gaki
Broken Ritual
The Tangled Skein
Gen
The Return of Kitsune
The Last Ino Story

Book 08 – Shades of Death
Introduction – William Stout
Shades of Green
Jizo
Shi
The Lizard’s Tale
Usagi’s Garden
Autumn
Battlefield

Book 09 - Daisho
Introduction - James Robinson
The Music of Heaven
The Gambler, the Widow, and the Ronin
Slavers
Daisho (part 1)
Mongrels
Daisho (part 2)
Runaways
The Nature of the Viper

Book 10 – The brink of Life and Death
Introduction – Kurt Busiek
Origin Tale
Kaiso
A Meeting of Strangers
Black Soul
Noodles
Wrath of the Tangled Skein
The bonze’s Story
Bats, the Cat, and the Rabbit
Chrysanthemum Pass
Lightning Strikes Twice

Book 11 – Seasons
Introduction – Lynn Johnston
The Withered Field
A Promise in the Snow
The Conspiracy of Eight
Snakes and Blossoms
Return to Adachi Plain
The Crossing
Patience of the Spider
Lord of the Owls
The First Tenet
Obakaneko of the Geishu Clan
Green Persimmon

Book 12 – Grasscutter
Introduction – Will Eisner
prologue 1 - Izanagi and Izanami
prologue 2 - Susano-o
prologue 3 - Yamato-Dake
prologue 4 - Dan-No-Ura
chapter 1 - Jei
chapter 2 - Heike Gani
chapter 3 - Inazuma
chapter 4 - Noriyuki and Tomoe
chapter 5 - Ikeda
chapter 6 - Tomoe and Ikeda
chapter 7 - Usagi and Jei
chapter 8 - Sanshobo

Book 13 – Grey Shadows
Introduction – Max Allan Collins
My Father’s Swords
The Demon Flute
Momo-Usagi-Taro
The Hairpin Murders
The Courtesan
Tameshigiri

Book 14 – Demon Mask
Introduction – Paul Dini
The Inn on Moon Shadow Hill
A Life of Mush
Deserters
A Potter’s Tale
The Missive
Mystery of Demon Mask
Kumo
Reunion
Death and Taxes
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Tournament
Netsuke
The Leaping Ninja
Tsuru

Book 15 – Grasscutter II: Journey to Atsuta Shrine
Introduction - Greg Rucka
Prologue
chapter 1 - A Whisper of Wings
chapter 2 - Scent of the Pines
chapter 3 - The Hunger for Death
chapter 4 - Visions in the Shadows
chapter 5 - The Feel of Salt
chapter 6 - In the Realm of Senses

Book 16 – The Shrouded Moon
Introduction – Scott Shaw!
Showdown
Escape!
Three Seasons
The Shrouded Moon
Kitsune’s Tale

Book 17 – Duel at Kitanoji
Introduction – Jack Davis
Vendetta
The Return of the Lone Goat and Kid
Images from a Winter Day
Koji
Crows
Duel at Kitanoji
A Lesson in Courtesy
(concept sketches for cover art)

Book 18 – Travels with Jotaro
Introduction – Peter Laird
Out of the Shadows
Ghost Warriors
Komainu
Tamago
Usagi and the Tengu
Sumi-E

Book 19 – Fathers and Sons
Introduction – Matt Wagner
Fathers and Sons
Bells
Kill the Geishu Lord
Pride of the Samurai
Hokashi

Book 20: Glimpses of Death
Introduction - Frederick L. Schodt
Cooking Lesson
Contraband
After the Rat
Samurai for Hire
Dreams and Nightmares
Gen and the Dog
When Rabbits Fly
Into the Mist
Nocturnal
Vendetta's End
Usagi's Twentieth Anniversary

Book 21: The Mother of Mountains
Introduction - John Landis
The Treasure of the Mother of Mountains part 1 - 7

Book 22: Tomoe's Story
Introduction - Heidi MacDonald
Tomoe’s Story (revised version)
The Doors
Fox Fire
The Ghost in the Well part 1
The Ghost in the Well part 2
The Thief and the Lotus Scroll
Chanoyu

The Thief and the Lotus Scroll
Chanoyu

Stan Sakai · Post by **Stan Sakai** » Tue Feb 03, 2009 11:07 -0700

One good way to go, at least for the first 7 Fantagraphics books, is to get the hardcover slipcased editions coming out in June. You'll get some big savings if you order it through Amazon.

http://www.amazon.com/Usagi-Yojimbo-Fan ... _rhf_p_t_1

Space Wolf · Post by **Space Wolf** » Tue Feb 03, 2009 12:06 -0700

Thanks for the info, Steve and Stan.

I saw on Barnes and Noble that they have a majority of the trades available, though the rest will take some time to hunt down since according to B&N they are out of print. Hopefully I can find a nice copy in good condition.

I might have to do one a month or so, and then I would wait until I have the entire series to do a nice long read. That could be fun both in terms of the actual hunting of the books and the reading of them after.

MikeM · Post by **MikeM** » Tue Feb 03, 2009 13:00 -0700

Space Wolf, I just wanted to say that was an incredibly cool thing you did.

I have passed on issues of Usagi and even trade (volume 4 to my friend's wife) but couldnt imagine doing it to my whole collection.

Very cool.

MikeM

Space Wolf · Post by **Space Wolf** » Tue Feb 03, 2009 19:16 -0700

Thank you, Mike.

It was a bit hard to part with them, but when she told me her daughter read them and then re-read them right away I just couldn't take them back, by then, they were already hers.