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By: Usagi Yojimbo: Traitors of the Earth » Comics Worth Reading

Usagi Yojimbo: Traitors of the Earth » Comics Worth Reading — Mon, 09 Jul 2012 14:35:25 +0000

[...] I enjoy each new Usagi Yojimbo volume just for the stories, I was particularly attracted to this latest collection due to the [...]

By: January 2012 Previews: Recommendations, Reminders, and Ramblings » Comics Worth Reading

Sun, 01 Jan 2012 18:28:36 +0000

[...] including Carla Speed McNeil’s Finder series and (a much longer time ago) Stan Sakai’s Usagi Yojimbo. As long as they keep putting out these amazing works, it doesn’t matter to me how many other [...]

By: Ralf Haring

Ralf Haring — Fri, 07 Oct 2011 00:03:42 +0000

New Usagi collections are always welcome, though I’m always reminded of how very, very far they are behind the single issues. (two years?) It’s hard to properly describe the appeal of the series since it sounds so deceptively simple. The expressiveness of the characters, inventiveness of the plots, and the depths the series can reach are not easily conveyed by a quick glance. People really have to trust that you aren’t going to steer them wrong to give it a shot.

I found Saya to be a high point as well, despite it being the shortest tale. It’s the perfect type of introductory piece for inclusion in a web sampler.

There is a lot of cross pollination between samurai and western films with influences going back and forth across the sea. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_(genre)#Influences