Sunday Trade: Usagi Yojimbo

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Usagi Yojimbo: Grasscutter II Journey to Atsuta Shrine all by Stan Sakai

Collecting issues 39-45 of Sakai's masterful and award winning series about a ronin rabbit. In this one Usagi and his allies need to get the legendary sword Grasscutter to Atsuta Shrine, where no one will attempt to steal it. 'Cause that would anger the gods. Of course they've got to get past hordes of ninjas to do it...

This volume has Gen the ronin/bounty-hunter rhino, the Neko and Komori ninja clans, samurai turned shinto monk Sanshobo and samurai lord turned farmer Ikeda. Its filled to the brim with deadly battles and has easily one of the Top 10 of Bad-Ass Deaths...

There are some who would dismiss Usagi Yojimbo as "just another funny animal book". We call those people fools...