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Dark Horse comics has posted their preview for issue #97:
Usagi Yojimbo #97
By: Stan Sakai
Cover Artist: Stan Sakai
Genre: Action/Adventure
Discover the secret of "Hamanaka's Treasure" in this conclusion to the two-part adventure presented by internationally acclaimed storyteller Stan Sakai!
All hell has broken loose in a small town after the death of crime boss Hamanaka. The two remaining factions of his gang are vying for control of the community, but it's the townspeople who are suffering the most. The tension comes to a head just as our favorite rabbit bodyguard, Usagi Yojimbo, arrives upon the scene!
• Master storyteller Stan Sakai has won many industry awards over the past twenty years of Usagi, including a Parents' Choice Award, an Inkpot Award, multiple Eisner Awards, a 2004 Young Adult Library Services Association award, and the prestigious National Cartoonists Society Comic Book Division Award.
Mmmmh, I still have lots of Usagi volumes to read before I catch on issue #97, but it seems to me that Mr. Sakai is leaning towards a more stylized, sketch-like drawing.
In the fourth page : these two guys who're "playing" with their swords have hilarious attitudes. They're so immature they'd make a perfect comedy duo. Lovely.
And look at Usagi's face in the second case, I've never seen him so funnily vexed and grumpy. Sounds more like Gen's, doesn't it ?
