March Issues (plural) of Usagi Yojimbo Listed...

[Steve Hubbell]

According to their web-site, Dark Horse Comics appears to be planning on releasing two issues of Usagi Yojimbo on March 30th, 2005.

Usagi Yojimbo #82
By: Stan Sakai
Cover Artist: Stan Sakai
Genre: Action/Adventure

Internationally beloved creator Stan Sakai continues his celebrated, ongoing samurai adventure, Usagi Yojimbo! In this issue, the rabbit ronin once again encounters Koyama Matabei, the samurai on a sanctioned vendetta for his father's four killers. Honor demands that he place their heads on his father's grave, and he is hot on the trail of the final murderer. Three down, one to go ... but why is Usagi, who helped Matabei in issue #53, now determined to stand in his way?! Find out this month, in "Vendetta's End"!

Pub. Date: March 30, 2005
Format: b&w, 24 pages
Price: $2.99

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Usagi Yojimbo #83
By: Stan Sakai
Cover Artist: Stan Sakai
Genre: Action/Adventure

Internationally celebrated storyteller Stan Sakai continues his tales of samurai adventure in Usagi Yojimbo! This issue begins a multipart story with the discovery of gold in a mountain range. The hunter who finds it is captured and tortured by a power-hungry lord, but there is another problem: the gold technically lies in the neighboring Geishu Province. As if that weren't enough news for the Geishu border, there is a sudden outbreak of the plague! Lord Noriyuki sends his bodyguard Tomoe to investigate, and she and her retinue soon enter a village in the "hot zone"...with lethal results! What new perils threaten this beloved character? And what about the gold? Find out in the first part of "The Treasure of the Mother of Mountains," this month in Usagi Yojimbo!

Pub. Date: March 30, 2005
Format: b&w, 24 pages
Price: $2.99

http://www.darkhorse.com/profile/profile.php?sku=10-410

Issue # 82 was originally scheduled for a late February release. Also originally scheduled for a late February release was Volume #4 of Samurai Executioner (which is now scheduled for April 13, 2005, the same release date as Volume #5).

What's going on over at our Faverite comic company? Everyone knows Stan Sakai never misses a deadline, and the fact that more than one title has been post-poned makes me wonder if I should worry.

Abayo...

[Stan Sakai]

What's going on over at our Faverite comic company? Everyone knows Stan Sakai never misses a deadline, and the fact that more than one title has been post-poned makes me wonder if I should worry.

Abayo...

You can blame Frank Miller. Dark Horse has had to get all six Sin City trades out in time for the movie release. I know Editor Diana has been extremely overworked--so overworked in fact, that she's been too busy to yell at me that I'm way behind schedule. I suspect that the multiple issues in March (if that is the case) is an attempt to play catch-up. At least, that is one of the reasons for DH running behind.

UY Book 19: Fathers & Sons was also affected the the rescheduling. I'm not sure when it will actually be released, but I'm still waiting for the tip-in page so I can sign them for the hard cover.