Billy Tucci's returned last year to his ever popular title Shi, creating a brand new series to the delight of comic fans everywhere. Through his company, Crusade Fine Arts, Ltd., Shi is printed in six languages, has sold more than four million comic books, and grossed over twenty-five million dollars worldwide.

Ana Ishikawa returns to her native Japan where she desperately tries to avert an all out-war between the secretive sects of the Kyoto and Nara Sohei. And with the Narans on the verge of annihilation, the Kyoto Sohei are about to rub it in—with the encouragement of the Yakuza and with potentially disastrous consequences. Once again, Ana in the guise of Death Incarnate, will take up the naginata and don her grandfather's Kabuki face paint in order to save both cities, even if it means turning to her father's murderer Masahiro Arashi to do so...

Collecting the four issue seires, the Shi: Ju-Nen collection features story by Billy Tucci and JC Vaughn with art by Billy Tucci. It arrives sale January 11 with a retail price of 12.95.