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I very much enjoyed # 97 (Boss Hamanaka's Fortune - Part Two (of Two)).

Tons of cool scenes in the rain. And Usagi looks to have a new traveling companion, which could be interesting for the future.

I am curious about one small detail though. In the rightmost top panel on page 9, Usagi's visage is represented only by a + and no real details. Is this a case of forgetting to replace it with something for the final drawing? Other characters at apparently similar distances in the issue have some combination of eyes, nose or a mouth.

I've noticed this before in very small figures like Usagi in the top panel of the last page of # 93, and it seems fine in a case like that where it would be too far to see much detail at all anyway.

I assume the + is a guide for drawing the figure in the early stages in both cases.

I have this one reserved for me at the comic shop, but the store I go to is in the process of moving!!! When they open their new store I'll be able to get it. Until then, I'm plugging my ears to any spoilers!

Agghhhh....don't have my copy yet.

Must. Burn. Out. Eyes.

Wait, then how will I read the comic?

Aghhhh!!!!

Here's the problem: I live in Bermuda. There are almost no comic book stores to speak of, and the one GOOD comic store available here doesn't sell UY. I have to special order it...and even then I have to wait another few days longer than everyone else.

Sometimes, the delays don't seem to be worth it, and I just wait for the collected volumes to come out. But there are issues that I simply have to have immediately, right now, today, and that's UY #98...not due out till late November, of course.

Here is another problem:
I live in Berlin, Germany; although there are three very good comic shops, and although I could order any American comic through them (meaning a further delay of 3-6 weeks plus shipping costs), I don't.

Why, I hear you ask ?!
I have a strong dislike against comics printed on thin, easy tear-and-wear paper. I have been reading comics for almost 34 years, starting with Donald Duck and Mickey Mouse (yes, I confess, I liked them; but then again, I was only five or six years old... ), and I still remember my deep frustration and disappointment about every dog-ear, tear, or other damage. I wanted to read them where ever possible, but or bath room might have been a little too moist for the comics... they suffered a lot, so don't ask me whether I still got them.
Throwing them away ( very reluctantly, you guess) when they were almost reduced to colored pulp always made me sad; I wanted to keep them, store them, maybe display them to worthy friends...you can tell I was a natural born collector.

And then came MAD, or the Germany MAD as that; Whow, they really thought about collectors; better quality papers, thicker, and a glossy outer cover to fend off the moisture ( there were, of course other reasons for that, but, never mind).

Years later I came across my first "real"comic, a trade paper book in DIN A 4; Revelation, bliss

This is what good comics should look like! You can actually read them four times in a row, and they don't look like they were torn from a waste bin afterwards!!

So this is the reason why I wait for the TPB issues, which means I'm at least 18 issues behind everybody around here

But everything can change, I'm really thinking about collecting the shimmy single issues as well....

Thomas Froehling wrote: Years later I came across my first "real"comic, a trade paper book in DIN A 4; Revelation, bliss

I just ran across the same description (DIN A 4) for the first time this past week on a Hungarian forum where members have been discussing the upcoming release of the first Hungarian edition of Usagi Yojimbo from Vad Virágok.

Is that a description of the size, type of paper, or the type of binding of the trade paperback books?

Thanks for any information you can provide.

Abayo....

hello,
DIN A 4 is a description of the size, meaning Deutsche Industrie Norm (German industrial standard)
DIN A 4 is 210 x 297mm in size; don't ask me why it is such an uneven number, that's just the way it is..

Here is a link to a site (German); if i find something in english as well, I'll post it

http://www.din-formate.de/reihe-a-din-g ... l-dpi.html

Thomas, Americans don't use the DIN paper sizes. They don't even use the metric system, those barbarians.

Why 21 x 29,7 centimetres ? Because 29,7/21 = √2. It means that, if you fold a A4 sheet in two, you'll have two A5 sheets (14,8 x 21 cm), four A6 sheets (10,5 x 14,8 cm), and so on. The √2 proportion remains constant, which is very practical.

Oh, sorry for talking about mathematics here.