Après The Stan Sakai Project (dont les bénéfices ont été directement reversés au créateur Stan Sakai et sa femme Sharon), Dark Horse a commandé une nouvelle mini-série Usagi Yojimbo, intitulée Senso, que l’éditeur déclare être l’ultime aventure du lapin samurai.
L’histoire se déroulera 20 ans après les évènements du dernier volume; Usagi est général pour le Seigneur Noriyuki dans la guerre qui les oppose au traitre Hikiji lorsque une fusée s’écrase, dévoilant un ennemi que les deux camps n’étaient pas préparés à combattre. Le premier numéro (sur les six prévus) sortira en aout 2014.
En parallèle, l’éditeur s’apprête à rééditer l’intégrale de la série pour fêter les 30 ans du personnage. The Usagi Yojimbo Saga, Vol.1 comprendra les 16 numéros de la 2ème série et les 6 premiers de la 3ème*.
[quote]Dark Horse Press Release
With more than two hundred issues and counting, Stan Sakai’s Usagi Yojimbo is among comics’ most monumental achievements. In celebration of thirty years of the marvelous samurai rabbit saga, Usagi Yojimbo is set to return in an all-new six-issue miniseries, Usagi Yojimbo: Senso, followed by the debut of the Usagi Yojimbo Saga collection!
Twenty years in his future, Miyamoto Usagi fights as a general for Lord Noriyuki, against the treacherous Lord Hikiji. In the fury of the final battle, a metal rocket crashes to earth—and inside is an enemy that neither side could have ever imagined! Witness the final fates of your favorite Usagi characters, in this all-new samurai epic with a startling science fiction twist!
Usagi Yojimbo: Senso #1 is on sale in comic shops everywhere August 6!
To celebrate the rabbit ronin’s thirtieth anniversary, Dark Horse proudly presents Miyamoto Usagi’s epic trek along the warrior’s path in a new series of deluxe compilations: The Usagi Yojimbo Saga.
In the first volume, Usagi protects a village from a band of assassins, reluctantly engages in a duel for blood money, hunts a gangster who has stolen his swords, and more.
Collecting Usagi Yojimbo Vol. 2 #1–#16 and Vol. 3 #1–#6, and featuring over six hundred pages of samurai action and adventure, The Usagi Yojimbo Saga is the ultimate introduction to Sakai’s enduring samurai masterpiece!
The Usagi Yojimbo Saga Volume 1 will be available in both limited hardcover and softcover omnibus editions in comic shops on October 15!
Praise for Stan Sakai’s Usagi Yojimbo:
“One of the most original, innovative, well-executed comicbooks anywhere to be found.” —Stan Lee
“Stan Sakai has successfully brought to American comics a collection of Japanese fables well told in the American style. Usagi Yojimbo is an enduring work. Bravo.”
—Will Eisner
“Humbly presented but a paragon of its art.” —Booklist
“Usagi Yojimbo is a genuine pleasure for readers of all ages.”—Publishers Weekly[/quote]
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Le site de l’éditeur: darkhorse.com
*[size=85]L’éditeur n’a fait aucune déclaration, pour le moment, concernant la publication des 38 numéros de la première série.[/size]
