Question about trades...

[estee]

A number of people have asked which Trade should they start with, and I always reply with the first one. Seems logical too me.

Now those are the stories from Albedo, Critters and the Summer Special.

Is that the best place to start or should new fans jump into Samurai, Book 2?

Cheers.

[Stan Sakai]

A number of people have asked which Trade should they start with, and I always reply with the first one. Seems logical too me.

Now those are the stories from Albedo, Critters and the Summer Special.

Is that the best place to start or should new fans jump into Samurai, Book 2?

Cheers.

Either Book 1 or 2 are good places to start. Book 1 contains short stories, but Book 2 starts with the early life of the character.

[Todd Shogun]

I say start with Book 1...that way you experience Usagi in the same order the series was originally published...Starting with Book 2 is advisable if Book 1 is unavailable. Having read Book 1, the reader will have been introduced to Gen.

[Steve Hubbell]

Gen is just so cool!
He is what really hooked me on the series in the beginning...

[chickrockguitar]

I started with Book One. Yeah, I'd say new Readers do the same.

[Ace the Bathound]

Howdy,

I started with volume 17. Then again, I have never been accused of doing things the easy way .

The experience showed me that, despite popular wisdom to the contrary, continuity is not an obstacle to getting into a comic book series. If the story is cool enough and done well enough, you don't care that you don't know exactly what's going on. It just makes you want to get more.

Since I don't have all the TPBs yet, I think will try starting off my brother and his wife with Vol 4 ("The Dragon Bellow Conspiracy"), since I think it's a slightly gentler introduction and also contains much of what I find so kickass about UY.

-- Ed