Usagi has left Gen at Sanshobo's temple to heal from his battle wounds (received during Grasscutter), and volunteers to collect his friend's hard-earned bounty while Gen recovers. During his journey, the ronin rabbit befriends a boisterous group of young orphans and spends an evening with the children telling them a favorite story from his own childhood -- "Momo-Usagi-Taro". Usagi casts himself in the starring role of this story in which a childless couple's greatest wish comes true when a beautiful baby boy is born to them from a giant peach, and the boy grows up to save the entire countryside from a band of evil ogres on their way to raid the local villages.
Usagi Yojimbo #25: Momo-Usagi-Taro is a 24-page story presented in classic black and white, available November 18 at comics shops everywhere for $2.95.
Also available soon from Dark Horse is the newly-collected Space Usagi series by Stan Sakai. A descendent of the 17th-century samurai Miyamoto Usagi, Space Usagi is a futuristic warrior following the ancient samurai code as he and his fellow samurai attempt to retake their fallen star system and save their beleaguered lord from a band of abductors.
Space Usagi is a 296-page, black-and-white adventure saga, collected as both a soft-cover trade paperback (available December 2 for $16.95), and as a limited edition hardcover featuring a beautiful dust jacket and individually signed and numbered color tip-in plate (available December 16 for $59.95).