Usagi Yojimbo

• Title: Usagi Yojimbo: The Crow #1 (of 5)
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• Writer: Stan Sakai
• Artist: Stan Sakai

Miyamoto Usagi and Yukichi descend from the mountains following their adventures in Ice and Snow to come across a man being attacked by four others. Offering their assistance, the pair meet Jimmu and his trained crow Yatagarasu (who they witness help repel one of the attackers). Parting ways, our wandering ronin make their way to a nearby town to discover they may have intervened on the wrong side.

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• Title: Usagi Yojimbo: Ice and Snow #5 (of 5)
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• Writer: Stan Sakai
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Wrapping up the five-issue mini-series, Usagi Yojimbo: Ice and Snow #5 offers this single-issue epilogue in which weary Miyamoto Usagi and Yukichi, and later some of the bandits who worked for Jei, find shelter in an isolated village. At first it appears the trouble the ronin may have to deal with is the bandits who swear they have changed their ways, but plan to stick around to rob the village after the ronin leave the area. However, the real trouble lies elsewhere.

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• Title: Usagi Yojimbo: The Dragon Bellow Conspiracy #2 (of 3)
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• Writer: Stan Sakai
• Artist: Stan Sakai

Space Usagi: Death and Honor continues with the middle issue of the tale offering a pair of space battles for Commander Usagi and Prince Kiyoshi as well as a check-in with the villains our story as Lord Matabe receives a visit from Admiral Niiro displeased to learn his forces are locked out of the computer systems and the wealth of the Shirohoshi clan has vanished. He needs Prince Kiyoshi.

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• Title: Space Usagi: Death and Honor #1 (of 3)
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• Writer: Stan Sakai
• Artist: Stan Sakai

Rabbit Ronin in SPAAAAAAAAAAACE! Recollecting the early 90s comic series centered around a descendant of Miyamoto Usagi known as Commander Usagi as a general of the Shirohoshi Clan’s space fleet and mentoring young Prince Kiyoshi who has been targeted by assassins of a rival clan about to make their play against Lord Hideaki, Space Usagi: Death and Honor #1 kicks off the three-issue tale for the first time printed in color.

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