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Usagi Yojimbo #94 Preview
Posted: Thu Jun 22, 2006 10:08 -0700
by Steve Hubbell
Usagi Yojimbo Zone at Dark Horse Comic wrote:
Usagi Yojimbo #94
By: Stan Sakai
Cover Artist: Stan Sakai
Genre: Action/Adventure
The deadly Koroshi League of Assassins is back-and its longstanding grudge against our favorite rabbit ronin is far from forgotten! This is especially true for Saiko, the swift and beautiful young murderer whose father and partners were killed by Usagi, Katsuichi-sensei, and Jotaro in the landmark issue #75. Usagi, fresh from his stay in the friendly Geishu Province, again runs afoul of Saiko by attempting to prevent her latest contract. But when he tries to protect the life of a prominent local merchant, Saiko takes the man's young daughter hostage! It's a life-and-death standoff . . . will the long-eared samurai prevail by sacrificing an innocent, or will he allow this homicidal up-and-comer to escape, free to continue carving her bloody path through feudal Japan? Find out this month, in Usagi Yojmbo!
• Stan Sakai has won multiple Eisner Awards, a 2004 Young Adult Library Services award, a Parents' Choice Award, a "Lifetime Achievement" Inkpot Award, and the prestigious National Cartoonists Society Comic Book Division Reuben Award.
Publication Date: Jun 28, 2006
Format: B&W, 24 pages
Price: $2.99
(These previews really make you wonder what a daughter of Usagi would grow up to become. As carefree and friendly as Kitsune acts, but as skilled with a sword as Inazuma
)
Abayo.....
Posted: Thu Jun 22, 2006 11:14 -0700
by shaxper
Usagi and kids...it never gets old
Was Hanako a popular name in Feudal Japan? There was another character by that name in the Daisho storyline.
When will this be out in stores?
Posted: Thu Jun 22, 2006 14:49 -0700
by Stan Sakai
shaxper wrote:
Was Hanako a popular name in Feudal Japan? There was another character by that name in the Daisho storyline.
When will this be out in stores?
"Hana-ko" means "Flower Child" or, with different kanji, "Nose Child". The latter is not as popular.
It comes out at the end of June.
Posted: Thu Jun 22, 2006 16:28 -0700
by estee
Looks great...can't wait.
Posted: Thu Jun 22, 2006 18:13 -0700
by Spot the Tokage
This does look great. End of June... almost here.
Posted: Thu Jun 22, 2006 21:42 -0700
by Stan Sakai
estee wrote:Looks great...can't wait.
Remember--As the winner of the contest last month, you get a free autographed copy, which I will send to you.
Posted: Fri Jun 23, 2006 7:55 -0700
by estee
Oh yeah...woo-hoo!
Posted: Fri Jun 23, 2006 8:19 -0700
by MikeM
There was a contest? How did I miss that?
MikeM
Posted: Fri Jun 23, 2006 9:03 -0700
by estee
Posted: Fri Jun 23, 2006 9:25 -0700
by MikeM
ah, good shot at getting that.
I would have had no clue.
Posted: Fri Jun 23, 2006 9:26 -0700
by MikeM
Oh, one other question estee.
I love your banner. Is it ok with you if I steal it for other message boards?
(Especially
www.comicboards.com)
MikeM
Posted: Fri Jun 23, 2006 12:07 -0700
by Mayhem
I assume #94 will be on sale on your stand at San Diego Stan? Might as well wait and pick it up there me thinks
Posted: Fri Jun 23, 2006 13:01 -0700
by estee
MikeM wrote:Oh, one other question estee.
I love your banner. Is it ok with you if I steal it for other message boards?
(Especially
www.comicboards.com)
MikeM
Sure. Go ahead. If it helps spread the word that there are more comics than just Marvel and DC, I'm all for it.
Posted: Fri Jun 30, 2006 13:54 -0700
by Spot the Tokage
#94 was superb.
I was just wondering though, who were Saiko's parents from
Fathers and Sons? Which chapter were they in?
EDIT: Nevermind. I think I discovered the answer. Was it from "Hokashi"?
