Posts tagged with "wolf"
Manga Monday: New Lone Wolf And Cub Vol. 3
Dec. 2, 2014
Kazuo Koike returns to Lone Wolf and Cub with his twenty-first-century sequel, New Lone Wolf and Cub. Samurai Togo Shigekata has brought the dead Lone Wolf’s son, Daigoro, to an oasis of safety, the warship of Togo’s master, the lord of Satsuma. But when Togo is accused of treason, all hell breaks loose! Read More...
Manga Monday: Samurai Executioner Omnibus Book Three
Nov. 10, 2014
Samurai Executioner is a manga series from Kazuo Koike and Goseki Kojima, the creators of Lone Wolf and Cub. It’s set in the same world as Lone Wolf and Cub, but whereas Yamada “Decapitator” Asaemon is a minor character in LW&C, he is the protagonist of Samurai Executioner. Read More...
Manga Monday: Halfway Through A Legendary Journey
Sept. 29, 2014
Vol. 6 of the Lone Wolf and Cub Omnibus hits stores this week. The bare facts begin with it being 700 pages for $19.99—tremendous value for the reader. Six volumes times 700 pages is 4200 pages—and that’s only the halfway point of the story. But if you feel intimidated to even start this series, here’s another fact: Lone Wolf and Cub isn’t just Dark Horse’s best-selling manga; with over 1.3 million copies in print, it’s our best-selling title, ever, period. Read More...
Manga Monday: Koike And Kojima’s World
Aug. 11, 2014
Samurai Executioner is currently being published by Dark Horse in omnibus format, just as Lone Wolf and Cub is. That means not only more story for less money, but also larger pages. With Kojima’s artwork at a bigger size, I feel I’m seeing these stories in a new way, and one thing I particularly notice is his command of portraiture. Read More...
Dark Horse Wins Record Number Of Diamond Gem Awards!
Jan. 31, 2014
Last week, Diamond Comic Distributors announced the 2013 Gem Awards, boasting a record number of accolades for Dark Horse! Read More...
Manga Mondays: Hall of Manga
Jan. 13, 2014
Do you hang up manga pictures where you work? So do we! In fact, we have an entire hallway here at Dark Horse dedicated to them, running along that all-important route that connects the kitchen to the editorial conference room. Read More...
The Return of Lone Wolf and Cub!
June 7, 2013
Lone Wolf and Cub. Eight. Thousand. Pages. One has difficulty imagining a comics creative team committing to a story of such epic proportions, much less a story with a true beginning, middle, and end. Read More...