Daisho (Usagi Yojimbo, Book 9)

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Summary: What can you say? Stan Sakai have done it again
Review: Daisho is a collection of the first Usagi Yojimbo-issues published by Mirage, and to be honest i like them better in b&w as they are here than in colour that they are in the ordinary issues. It's not much to say about the stories, except that they are just as great as always. I should though recomnmend that you read the earlier issues (both the ones published on Mirage and the earlier publisher, Fantagraphics), but that's not necessary to just understand the stories. Daisho is a great collection that should be in every Usagi-collectors shelf.

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Summary: As per usual, Sakai breathes life into his graven rabbit
Review: Stan Sakai's story-telling ability once again surfaces to shine bright above the churning mess of mediocrity and narrative detritus the comics industry so often produces - this should come as no surprise to those who have kept up with the lapine ronin's "warrior's pilgrimage." Sakai's talent becomes wildly apparent when, after chronicling the salvation of a farming village from their slaver captors which resulting in the theft of Miyamoto Usagi's daisho (two-swords), he embarks upon a seven-page digression into the cultural import of the samurai's blades and then leaps marvelously back into manic high-action. My only regret is that there are only so many of his books available (fourteen by March 2000)!