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Title:
Samurai
Series: Usagi Yojimbo #2
Author:
Stan Sakai
Rating: 2 of 5 Stars
Genre:
Graphic Novel
Pages: 152
Words:
15K
Publish: 1989
After
reading The
Ronin (book 1) last year, and since I’m done with manga (I
stopped Demonslayer
back in May) and the last graphic novel I read was that horrible
Batman/The
Shadow: Murder Geniuses fiasco, I wanted something that I
thought would satisfy me.
Boy, did I choose wrong.
There was absolutely nothing “bad” about this story. Usagi (the rabbit Samurai) recounts the battle that set him on the path of the ronin (a leaderless samurai) and how he dealt with that aspect of his life. It was decent. What dragged this book down for me was the inclusion of a bunch of other stories about other comics that the same publishing company put out alongside Usagi Yojimbo. Each Usagi comic was about 20-22 pages long and then they added 12-15 pages of some other animal related comic to bulk the comic up to the 36 page mark. I ended up skipping those and it really annoyed me. Enough so that I don’t plan on reading any more of Usagi Yojimbo. Just not worth the slog.
And at this point, I think my only comic medium is now going to be Groo.
★★☆☆☆
Synopsis by Bookstooge
Usagi recounts his origins to another wandering Samurai. There are also several non-Usagi Animal stories which were related to other comics put out by the same publishing company.
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