Publisher: Dark Horse Comics
Artists: Various. Possibly all.
Release date: 23rd July 2014

Stan Sakai’s Usagi Yojimbo is a phenomenon. As anthropomorphic sagas go, it has managed for 30 years to be challenging, funny, dark, powerful – anything and everything you could want of any great comic, really. And its creator has inspired an outpouring due to appalling personal circumstances from the industry’s finest.

It’s genuinely extraordinary, with over 150 pages of magnificent variations on the theme. It’s a roster of talent old and new, familiar and not Mike Mignola, Raphael Alberquerque, Neal Adams, Matt Groening, Dave Petersen… To be honest, a simple list would neither do this justice, nor cover the scope.

So, that leaves me writing perhaps the shortest review in histort. I cannot easily explain quite how impressive this, so I settle for this: go buy a copy, because this a great thing done for great people. But more than that, it’s a wonderful, beautiful thing, and I’ll be getting mine just as soon as I can.

Rating: 5/5

The writer of this piece was: Sam de Smith
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