Love for Space Usagi!

[plasticplayhouse]

The other day I was out in town and stumbled upon a little consignment shop that I never even knew existed. Normally these shops never seem to have anything of great interest to me, but I check them out anyway because you never know what you're going to find. After 20 minutes of browsing, the only thing that I found of interest was a Janis Joplin's greatest hits cd for two bucks. I was headed to the register to pay for my find when I saw a large book rack and thought maybe I'll find the Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest" (which is the third installment to Stieg Larrson's, "the Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" (great series!)) Yet again...no luck. As I began to turn away from the rack, I noticed what looked to be Usagi Yojimbo style font on a book that was behind a few magazines. I pulled it out and to my elation it was the Space Usagi tpb! Even better, it was only $2.50 and in excellent condition!

To be honest, while I enjoy the Usagi Yojimbo comics, I never had any interest in Space Usagi. I don’t know why that was really. I'm guessing back in the early 90's, the thought of a rabbit samurai in space wasn’t too appealing to me. Combine the 18 years or so of refraining from the series and my hour long train ride to work every day, I now thought it would make my daily commute more enjoyable. Man am I glad I picked up this book! I absolutely loved the Space Usagi series. It was massively entertaining! In particular, the bug and dinosaur illustrations were a treat to see.

That bring me to this question. Is it true that Stan (at some point) is going to write another arch to the story? I would soooo be all over that!

[coolray85]

while stan may want to answer that himself at some point, I can just tell you that I have read the same thing.somewhere in the future there is another space usagi installment in store for us all!!;)I am happy to hear that you found your way to space usagi!;)the price is a great one at that!congrats!
by the way, did you forget about janis joplin when you found usagi or did you get both?is the cd good?

[Jubei]

Man, my wife would have loved to have found such a CD for that price. Great music.

Oddly enough, Space Usagi is one of the few trades I have yet to read, mainly because I got the bulk of my Usagi trades off of eBay yet most of the time, that was one book that was seldom offered there. Amazon has it up now so I was planning to acquire it this year. The premise sounds cool to me.

[plasticplayhouse]

Coolray- yeas I got the cd too. joplin's greatest hits is a great cd, though it only contains ten songs. Her music's filled with passion and emotion.

Jubei-yes it is great music! Get the SU tpb, its so good you won't regret it.

[coolray85]

I know, I love her music, too!;) she was also good friends with robert crumb, who did the art on one of her records....
he said once that she was very great at singing country and blues in tiny bars but with her early death unfortunatelly not many people came to know of this...me and my girlfriend's favourite song is work me lord...
as for su, yes get it!its great!withut giving too much away, I loved the cool gimick that gen is having in one of the stories;)

[Usagi64]

I actually thought that "Space Usagi" was quite interesting as kind of a spin-off for one of the best comic book series I've ever read. I also found out that it was loosely inspired by the Space Usagi action figure from the TMNT line of action figures by Playmates.