Usagi Yojimbo

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles/Usagi Yojimbo: WhereWhen #4

  • Title: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles/Usagi Yojimbo: WhereWhen #4
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  • Writer: Stan Sakai
  • Artist: Stan Sakai

The crossover event continues as the Turtles, the Neko Ninja, and Usagi and his friends battle their way to Dr. WhereWhen‘s fortress encountering some of his new mechanical monstrosities in the form of giant spiders and a dragon. They aren’t the only one to encounter Dr. WhereWhen’s clockwork creations as Zato-Ino and his daughter Ichiko also run into the foot soldiers in the woods and an entire legion on them is about to overwhelm the camp of Lord Noriyuki whose army is stalled licking its wounds and burying their dead before continuing on their march towards Lord Hikiju.

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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles/Usagi Yojimbo: WhereWhen #2

  • Title: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles/Usagi Yojimbo: WhereWhen #2
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  • Writer: Stan Sakai
  • Artist: Stan Sakai

The second issue of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles/Usagi Yojimbo: WhereWhen picks up immediately from where the first issue ended in the classic hero misunderstanding with the friends mistakenly taking the newly arrived Turtles for the Kappa who have been terrorizing the area. This provides the only real action of the issue which ends with the arrival of Miyamoto Usagi, introducing LeonardoDonatelloMichelangelo, and Raphael to his friends.

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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles/Usagi Yojimbo: WhereWhen #1

  • Title: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles/Usagi Yojimbo: WhereWhen #1
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  • Writer: Stan Sakai
  • Artist: Stan Sakai

Ever since Usagi moved to IDW, here’s the crossover fans have been waiting for. Although the first issue of the new five-issue crossover mini-series doesn’t offer much in the way of interactions between characters of the two brands, it does set up an interesting situation with multiple time-displaced characters. With Lord Noriyuki leading an army against Lord Hikiju, Miyamoto Usagi‘s heartstrings are pulled by villagers in need of aid. And so Usagi, Tomoe, Jotaro, and Yukichi go in search of an evil Kappa.

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Usagi Yojimbo #31

The “Secret of the Green Dragon” arc concludes with an issue more about  Miyamoto Usagi, Yukichi, and Chizu out-running and out-thinking the perusing Komori Ninja than battling them. Chizu’s dangerous decisions will push Usagi to the breaking point especially after he learns they are going to all this trouble to protect a document that isn’t even real leading to a final face-to-face with the Komori.

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Samurai Rabbit: The Usagi Chronicles – Yokai

  • Title: Samurai Rabbit: The Usagi Chronicles – Yokai
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The second episode of Samurai Rabbit: The Usagi Chronicles finishes the set-up for the series as Yuichi Usagi (Darren Barnet) is imprisoned for the various trouble he has caused in the city with those he has met eventually coming to his aid (and getting arrested as well). However, the city’s new Yokai problem needs a solution and Yuichi, Gen (Aleks Le), Kitsune (Shelby Rabara), and Chizu (Mallory Low) working together appear to be the solution.

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