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The "Coming Up in Usagi Yojimbo" page says that there are tentative plans for an UY story featuring a character loosely based on Chinese folk hero Wong Fei-Hung (which will require taking a few historical liberties since Wong Fei-Hung lived 1847-1924, a few hundred years after the period in which UY is set.) Being a fan of Hong Kong movies featuring Wong Fei-Hung such as Jackie Chan's Drunken Master II (aka Legend of Drunken Master) and Tsui Hark's Once Upon a Time in China series, I'm intrigued by this idea. I think a story with Usagi meeting a character based on Jimmy Wang Yu's One-Armed Swordsman would be fun too. There's a Zatoichi movie where he meets the One-Armed Swordsman; I would enjoy seeing something like that in the pages of UY.

The "War of the Worlds" storyline also sounds like a pretty cool idea. I enjoyed Space Usagi a lot, so I like the idea of Stan bringing some sci-fi elements into UY.

Zatoichi meets the One Armed Swordsman was filmed with two endings--one in which Zatoichi wins and one with the Swordsman the victor.

Wong Fei-Hung is still on the back burner. Of course, it is just a character based upon Fei-Hung.

And don't forget Iron Monkey 1, in which he plays a pivitol supporting character.

I have "Iron Monkey 1". Both the DVD and the soundtrack. It's a really cool flick. The fight scenes are very well done. I also have "Zatoichi meets the One-armed Swordsman "as well and its pretty cool too. I have the one where Zatoichi wins the final battle. I agree that some artistic license would have to be taken to include Wong-fei Hong in a Usagi story given the time discrepincy. I am also looking forwards to a new "puter animated film coming in June. It's called "Kung Fu Panda" and from the clips and photos I've seen it's going to be pretty cool! Abayo!!

I'm looking forward to Kung Fu Panda as well. Looks like it will be very entertaining.

MikeM