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Usagi Yojimbo #85
Posted: Wed Jul 06, 2005 9:15 -0700
by Steve Hubbell
Cross your fingers, issue #85 is supposed to be released / delivered tomorrow according to the Diamond (Previews) Comics Distributor's shipping list.
Dark Horse Comics Usagi Yojimbo Zone wrote:Usagi Yojimbo #85
By: Stan Sakai
Cover Artist: Stan Sakai
Genre: Action/Adventure
Master storyteller Stan Sakai continues Usagi Yojimbo, his internationally acclaimed samurai adventure! In this issue, the third installment of "The Treasure of the Mother of Mountains," Tomoe Ame, bodyguard to the Geishu lord, fights for her life in her own province ... and with ronin Usagi at her side! Lord Sanada, a malicious and greedy opportunist who is operating an illegal gold mine, set his murderous warriors after Tomoe last issue. And though Lord Noriyuki knows that Tomoe is missing, the jealous Lord Horikawa advises him to do nothing. When Usagi is sentenced to death, will Tomoe turn herself in to save his life? Find out, this month in Usagi Yojimbo!
• Usagi Yojimbo is a 2004 Young Adult Library Services Association award winner.
Pub. Date: Jun 29, 2005
Format: b&w, 24 pages
Price: $2.99
For the rest of the preview, check out the Dark Horse link below:
http://www.darkhorse.com/profile/profile.php?sku=10-412
Posted: Wed Jul 06, 2005 10:40 -0700
by Gaffey
Sweet!!! That's two years in a row I get Usagi on my birthday.
Thanks Stan
Posted: Wed Jul 06, 2005 18:47 -0700
by estee
Wow, Stan's storytelling abilities just blow me away.
Three pages of Motakazu (sp) walking from home to the castle and it is completely riviting.
And the way he endured the soldier's scorn...a true samurai is born.
This book is amazing.
Can't wait to read the whole thing.
Posted: Wed Jul 06, 2005 20:38 -0700
by Steve Hubbell
I'm suprised there have been no comments on the cameo appearence...
Posted: Wed Jul 06, 2005 22:24 -0700
by Todd Shogun
You mean Inazuma and Keiko in the background?
Cool
Posted: Thu Jul 07, 2005 7:11 -0700
by estee
The devil is in the details...
Posted: Thu Jul 07, 2005 9:32 -0700
by Steve Hubbell
Todd Shogun wrote:You mean Inazuma and Keiko in the background?
Cool
that's the one... seems like I remember seeing them wander past in another recent issue.
Kinda makes you think that Stan has somethin' planned in the near future which requires them bein' present or at least near at hand.
I'm still wonderin about a confrontation between the Blood Princess and the possessed Inazuma. What would happen if the spirit of Jei-San took over the Blood Princess? Talk about an extremely nasty combination..
Anybody care to speculate?
Well, it must be gettin' time to go to the comic shop and see if #85 is in yet.
Before I forget:
HAPPY BIRTHDAY, GAFFEY
Posted: Thu Jul 07, 2005 11:32 -0700
by Steve Hubbell
Well, I'm back from the comic shop with issue #85 (actually been back long enough to read it as well
).
I also got to pick up the really super cool, fourth time around, Usagi Yojimbo calander. I am so glad that Tidemark has been producing these and hope that they keep publishing new ones each year for a long time.
I think calanders are such a perfect compliment to an ongoing comic series, being both practical and collectable at the same time.
I really wish Stan had the time to do a theme calander, something along the lines of "Usagi's Women" featuring Usagi with all the women in his life (possibly even a peek at his mother?).
Abayo...
Posted: Thu Jul 07, 2005 11:58 -0700
by hakucho
Steve Hubbell wrote:Todd Shogun wrote:You mean Inazuma and Keiko in the background?
Cool
that's the one... seems like I remember seeing them wander past in another recent issue.
Kinda makes you think that Stan has somethin' planned in the near future which requires them bein' present or at least near at hand.
I'm still wonderin about a confrontation between the Blood Princess and the possessed Inazuma. What would happen if the spirit of Jei-San took over the Blood Princess? Talk about an extremely nasty combination..
Anybody care to speculate?
Well, it must be gettin' time to go to the comic shop and see if #85 is in yet.
Before I forget:
HAPPY BIRTHDAY, GAFFEY
EYAAAAAH!
Did Jei kill Usagi in that sketch?
Also, who is this "Blood Princess" character? Is she in one of the graphic novels?
Posted: Thu Jul 07, 2005 12:28 -0700
by Steve Hubbell
hakucho wrote:
EYAAAAAH!
Did Jei kill Usagi in that sketch?
Also, who is this "Blood Princess" character? Is she in one of the graphic novels?
Looks like he missed by a hare! (
sorry, couldn't resist!)
The "Blood Princess" is Noriko, the cousin of Tomoe Ame. She made her first appearance in the Dark Horse Comics issue #83, the first part of the currently on-going "Treasure of the Mother of Mountains" story-line. These stories probably won't be collected as a graphic novel for a year or two.
The Usagi Yojimbo graphic novel titled "Fathers and Sons" (volume #19) which is to be released sometime in the next month or so and will collect issues 69-#75. Issue #69 was released in September 2003 and issue #75 was released in April 2004. That might provide some perspective on how much time between the comics and the graphic novels.
Abayo...
Posted: Fri Jul 08, 2005 6:13 -0700
by Gaffey
Thank you.
Steve Hubbell wrote:I'm suprised there have been no comments on the cameo appearence...
I completely missed it.
Posted: Fri Jul 08, 2005 6:43 -0700
by ziritrion
Happy birthday Gaffey!
I'm not late, am I?
Posted: Fri Jul 08, 2005 10:45 -0700
by Gaffey
Thanks ziritrion. It was the 7th.
I'm suprised there have been no comments on the cameo appearence...
Since you spotted Inazuma and Keiko, I'm sure you guys noticed Nilson and Hermy a few issues back.
Posted: Fri Jul 08, 2005 12:02 -0700
by Steve Hubbell
Gaffey wrote:Thanks ziritrion. It was the 7th.
I'm suprised there have been no comments on the cameo appearence...
Since you spotted Inazuma and Keiko, I'm sure you guys noticed Nilson and Hermy a few issues back.
Actually, no! I will have to go back and look.
Posted: Sat Jul 09, 2005 14:12 -0700
by estee
I noticed this a couple issues back...but I wonder if anyone else did...
Our boy Usagi is one ripped ronin. Page 22, when his shirt is off, check out the pecks and bis on the dude.
Sheesh if I looked like that I'd walk around without a kimono and whenever Tomoe came by I start flexing and say "Whose your Tono, kitty-kat?"
