Hi Oak,
Welcome to the Dojo!
The Special Edition prints the entire Fantagraphics Books run of Usagi, Books 1-7.
The Dark Horse Sagas pick up where the Special Edition leaves off. The Sagas collect Books 8 and on, three books in each Saga edition. Saga 7 comes out in October and collects Books 26, 27, and 28.
UY Book 30 was released in July so will not be collected in Saga 8 for a few more years, after Book 31 is published.
The early editions of the individual Dark Horse books are sold out and pretty expensive, so the Saga omnibus books are a good way to catch up on your Usagi reading. However, they are bulky and heavy to hold for long periods.
There were a few Usagi stories in color, but many of them have been reprinted in black and white in the collections. There were 4 Color Specials, Yokai (an out of print original water colored graphic novel), and miscellaneous stories that appeared in various anthologies such as Dark Horse Presents. Usagi was a color comic book series when it was published by Mirage, though they were reprinted in the collections as b/w.
oak wrote:So I just picked up Usagi Yojimbo: The Special Edition. Is this the same thing as buying books 1 thru 7 separately or does the story continue with the individual books? What comes next the regular books or the saga books?
Have any Usagi books been made in color or is everything black and white?
