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Posted: **Sun Sep 10, 2006 11:06 -0700**

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.

Publication Date: Sep 27, 2006
Format: b&w, 24 pages
Price: $2.99

http://www.darkhorse.com/profile/profile.php?sku=12-755

Posted: **Sun Sep 10, 2006 20:07 -0700**

Do you think Usagi sometimes kicks himself for being such a nice person?

Posted: **Sun Sep 10, 2006 21:15 -0700**

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 ?

Posted: **Sun Sep 10, 2006 22:13 -0700**

Reminds me a bit of the two gangs in the Kurosawa film "Yojimbo" when Mifune climbs up the watch tower to watch them battle it out.

Also, one of the versions of the fight in Rashamon, where both fighters were too scared to get within reach to swing their sword....

Posted: **Mon Sep 11, 2006 5:42 -0700**

MAN! I've missed two whole issues!!!!

Posted: **Mon Sep 11, 2006 8:41 -0700**

I'll bet that scoundrel is just watching Usagi get all tired out because he's going to duel him. I can't wait to read the rest when it comes out.

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Usagi Yojimbo #97 preview

Usagi Yojimbo #97 preview