Lone Wolf and Cub Volume 7: Dragon Cloud, Wind Tiger follows renegade swordsman Itto Ogami and his infant son, Daigoro, as they follow the assassin's path down the road to Hell. Despite his ferocity and cunning as a killer, Itto Ogami is among the most noble of men in Japan, and his efforts to protect a young girl after her family is killed by a conniving courtesan speaks as truly to his spirit as do the kills he racks up with his sword. Meanwhile, Ogami's arch-enemy, Yagyu Retsudo, dispatches Edo's civilian police force to round up the Lone Wolf as a common criminal. In another gut-wrenching tale, readers will learn that sometimes death by sword can be more merciful than terrifying, when Ogami returns to the scene of one of his past executions to fight the retainer of a lord he killed long ago.
"The more work we do on this book, the more I realize why it's still selling like crazy, even past the fifth volume," said series editor, Mike Hansen. "Lone Wolf and Cub even transcends the concept of `epic,' and I think fans are beginning to see that the story gets better and more fascinating as the pages pile up. Through the seventh volume -- marking over 2100 pages! -- we've published less than a quarter of the story so far, and the more intricate relationships in the story are just beginning to evolve. I really encourage fans to stick with us on this one."
Look for the March 28 release of Lone Wolf and Cub Volume 7, published by Dark Horse Comics in conjunction with San-Francisco-based manga packaging studio Studio Proteus.. This 320-paged, digest-sized paperback features hundreds of pages of classic manga storytelling by Kazuo Koike and Goseki Kojima and an informative essay by Dark Horse editors on the samurai tradition in Japan. Each book in the Lone Wolf and Cub series retails for $9.95.