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Lone Wolf and Cub Volume 14: Day of the Demons

3 reviews
Kazuo Koike, Goseki Kojima

Dark Horse, 2001

Ogami Itto comes closer to the secret of the Yagyu letter
Sometimes it is hard to remember that Kazuo Koike and Goseki Kojima are maddening slow in parceling out clues about the secret message hidden in the Yagyu letter because our attention is always riveted on the particular tale being told in the manga epic of Lone Wolf & Cub. Volume 14 of the saga, "Day of the Demons," offers up the next four episodes of Ogami Itto's path along the Assassin's road: ...

Lone Wolf and Cub 6: Lanterns for the Dead

4 reviews
Kazuo Koike, Goseki Kojima

Dark Horse, 2001

Two poignant Daigoro stories are the gems in Volume 6
I keep thinking there has to be some sort of drop off in quality for the Lone Wolf and Cub stories, but here is yet another volume in this manga epic that proves me wrong. Volume 6 offers up the next five installments in this masterpiece of graphic storytelling by Kazuo Koike and Goseki Kojima, set in the Edo-period of feudal Japan: (29) "Lanterns for the Dead," is a change-of-pace story in ...

Lone Wolf & Cub 28: Lotus Throne

9 reviews
Kazuo Koike, Goseki Kojima

Dark Horse, 2003

If you haven't read this book, please take note!!!
If you are about to read or order this final book, please read this! This volume has a glossary at the end, as do the others in the Dark Horse reprint of the series. Do not flip to the glossary in this volume; it's located adjacent to the final panels of the series and inadvertently seeing them may spoil your enjoyment of the book. Do without -- there's nothing in the glossary of this volume that ...

Lone Wolf and Cub 7: Cloud Dragon, Wind Tiger

4 reviews
Kazuo Koike, Goseki Kojima

Dark Horse, 2001

Lone Wolf gives the stage over to other characters
The striking cover art by Frank Miller and Lynn Varley for Volume 7 of the Lone Wolf and Cub manga epic is one of his best, but I have to think it would have been more appropriate for Daigoro to be on the cover because in "Cloud Dragon, Wind Tiger," two of the five stories focus on the Cub rather than Lone Wolf. Kazuo Koike continues to provide a few additional details about the quest Ogamii ...

Path Of the Assassin Volume 1: Serving In The Dark (Path of the Assassin)

4 reviews
Kazuo Koike, Goseki Kojima

Dark Horse, 2006

"Lifelong friends, with the Same Dreams, Striving to Grow into a Rising River"
"Hanzo no Mon" ("Path of the Assassin") is a manga by writer Kazuo Koike and artist Goseki Kojima that was originally published in Japan in 1972. Because it is a relatively short series, compared to Kokie and Kojima's "Lone Wolf & Cub" and "Samurai Executioner," Dark Horse is only now getting around to publishing these books now that those other series have both been concluded. We are still ...

Homeless Hunt (Lone Wolf and Cub, No. 22)

6 reviews
Kazuo Koike

First Publishing, Incorporated, 1989

Yagyu Retsudo renews the quest to kill Ogami Itto & Daigoro
The Yagyu letter continues to gnaw at Yagyu Retsudo who gives ample proof in Volume 13 of the Lone Wolf & Cub saga, "The Moon in the East, the Sun in the West," that he will go to any length to get his revenge on Ogami Itto. In the five chapters of the manga epic included in this volume is the most shocking act of violence we have yet wetness in this bloody saga: (64) "The Moon in the East, the ...

Lone Wolf and Cub Vol. 25: Perhaps in Death

3 reviews
Kazuo Koike, Goseki Kojima

Dark Horse, 2002

The saga approaches its finale
Yagyu Retsudo, the mortal enemy of Lone Wolf and Cub is finally brought up on charges of treason against the Shogun for the infamous Yagyu letters. Awaiting trial under the care of the poisoner Abe who plots to kill him still, Retsudo summons the 'Grass' in a final attempt to change his fate - ninja infiltrators hidden for generations among the Samurai families all over Japan. Duty, the main ...

Lone Wolf and Cub 8: Chains of Death

4 reviews
Kazuo Koike, Goseki Kojima

Dark Horse, 2001

The masterpiece of Japanese manga
The saga of Lone Wolf and Cub should be in the collection of anybody with an interest in Bushido, the Japanese warrior philosophy. Goseki Kojima's powerful storytelling and the late Kazuo Koike's brutal visuals have captured the essence of the quest of an honourable man in the cruel world of Shogun-era Japan. There are many manga series, but none better than Lone Wolf and Cub.

Lone Wolf and Cub Volume 15: Brothers of the Grass

3 reviews
Kazuo Koike, Goseki Kojima

Dark Horse, 2001

Encounters with the Yagyu Grass for Lone Wolf & Cub
"Brothers of the Grass," Volume 15 in the "Lone Wolf and Cub" manga epic by Kazuo Koike and Goseki Kojima, finally offers up the episode I have been awaiting for sometime, namely one in which the title characters do not appear. The story, of course, does serve the purpose of introducing us (eventually) to a character who will provide one of the greatest challenges to Ogami Itto as he and Diagoro ...

Lone Wolf and Cub 4: The Bell Warden

4 reviews
Kazuo Koike, Goseki Kojima, ...

Dark Horse, 2000

The unforgettable "Parting Frost" story of Daigoro
This fourth volume in the manga epic "Lone Wolf & Cub" manages to transcend the previous volumes. Kazuo Koike's stories not only continues to mine the history of Edo-period Japan for fascinating narrative settings and details, but Goseki Kojima continues to try different art styles dependent on the story being told. This volume offers up the next four stories of Ogami Itto's journey along the ...

Lone Wolf and Cub 9: Shadows, Echos

1 review
Kazuo Koike, Goseki Kojima

Dark Horse, 2001

Ogami Itto comes to a major fork on the Assassin's Road
Although it is too early to tell what it portends for this manga epic, the story of Lone Wolf and Cub moves into a new stage by the end of Volume 9 "Echo of the Assassin." Kazuo Koike and Goseki Kojima set up this shift by continuing to tell tales that tend to focus more on supporting characters than on Ogami Itto's journey on the assassin's road: (45) "Wife of the Heart" refers to O-Chiyo, a ...

Lone Wolf and Cub, Volume 18: The Last Kurokuwa

3 reviews
Kazuo Koike, Goseki Kojima

Dark Horse, 2002

Ogami Itto and Daigoro continue on the path to Edo
It seemed that with the death of his children and the Kurokuwa that Retsudo Yagyu had run out of pieces to put into play against Ogami Itto, but that proves not to be the case in "Twilight of the Kurokuwa," Volume 18 of the Lone Wolf and Cub manga epic by Kazuo Koike and Goseki Kojima. For the first time in the series the Shogun makes an appearance (although we never see his face), and we can ...

Path Of The Assassin Volume 5 (Path of the Assassin)

3 reviews
Kazuo Koike, Goseki Kojima

Dark Horse, 2007

"A man's nature can never change. No matter how hard he tries."
"Path of the Assassin" ("Hanzo no Mon") was originally published in 1972 but it was not until last year that Dark Horse Manga published the first of what will be 15 volumes reprinted in English but also in the original right-to-left format. Writer Kazuo Koike and artist Goeski Kojima, well known for their epic saga "Lone Wolf and Cub" ("Kozure Okami," 1970-76) and the related manga "Samurai ...

Lone Wolf and Cub #8 (1987)

1 review
Kazuo Koike

First Publishing, 1987

Six tales of the winter of Ogami Itto's discontent
"Chains of Death," Volume 8 in the Lone Wolf and Cub manga epic by Kazuo Koike and Goseki Kojima, offers something of a change of pace as Ogami Itto's walk on the Assassin's Road has several diversions: (39) "Tidings of the Geese" is a short tale in which one of the Shogun's inspectors informs Ogami Itto that the Yagyu have sent assassins to kill Lord Hotta. The fight sequence involves a ...

Samurai Executioner Volume 4 (Portrait of Death)

2 reviews
Kazuo Koike, Goseki Kojima

Dark Horse, 2005

Capital punishment related to deterrence and art in feudal Japan
"Portrait of Death," Volume 4 in the "Samurai Executioner" series, is quite unusual in that we end up getting about three-fourths of the way through its pages become Yamada Asaemon performs the sole execution in these four stories. But then writer Kazuo Koike and artist Goseki Kojima are obviously more interested in re-creating the Edo period in Japan and weaving stories out of things as simple ...

Path Of The Assassin Volume 6 (Path of the Assassin)

3 reviews
Kazuo Koike, Goseki Kojima

Dark Horse, 2007

Ieyasu comes to the greatest difficulty of his life
"Path of the Assassin, Volume 6: Life's Greatest Difficulty" consists mostly of the single epic story that gives the volume its title. Things are going well for Ieyasu, who it should be remembered is only 22-years-old at this point in his journey towards becoming Shogun and only now beginning to mull over taking the name Tokugawa. Meanwhile, Hatori Hanzo and Tsukumo have been away from their ...

Lone Wolf and Cub Vol. 23: Tears of Ice

1 review
Kazuo Koike, Goseki Kojima

Dark Horse, 2002

Ogami Itto and Retsudo Yagyu cross swords (big time)
There are five volumes following "Tears of Ice," Volume 23 in the Lone Wolf & Cub series, so the epic sword fight between Ogami Itto and Retsudo Yagyu can not be the climatic battle between the two bitter foes. But that does not take away from the drama of the drawn out encounter, which finds the pair returned to the swords they left standing in the ground when they went off to save the city of ...

Path Of The Assassin Volume 3: Comparison Of A Man (Path of the Assassin)

2 reviews
Kazuo Koike, Goseki Kojima

Dark Horse, 2006

Motoyasu becomes a candle flickering in the wind
There was a moment when I found myself thinking that Kazuo Koike and Goseki Kojima were the Stan Lee and Jack Kirby of manga, but I really do find that their work has a lot more in common with the films of Akira Kurosawa than anything in the realm of American comic books. My exposure to their work has been dictated by the production schedule of Dark Horse, which means I first read all of "Lone ...

Lone Wolf and Cub Volume 26: Struggle in the Dark

3 reviews
Kazuo Koike, Goseki Kojima

Dark Horse, 2002

Building up to the climactic duel
The long awaited duel with Ogami Itto will have to wait as the imprisoned Retsudo has to first deal with the master poisoner Abe. Retsudo with the aid of his ninja infiltrators, cunningly traps Abe in a strategem that results in the master poisoner being ordered to commit seppuku (ritual belly cutting) by the enraged Shogun. Meanwhile, Ogami Itto, goes to find Retsudo by simply walking into Edo ...

Fragrance of Death (Lone Wolf and Cub, Vol. 21)

1 review
Kazuo Koike, Goseki Kojima

Dark Horse, 2002

Abe-no-Kaii continues to try and poison Lone Wolf & Cub
My decision this fall to start reading the manga epic Lone Wolf & Cub, one episode a night before going to bed, appears to be a masterstroke of timing since the 28th and final volume of the series was due out this week. Volume 21, "Fragrance of Death" continues the novel-within-the-novel that began with the previous volume, "A Taste of Poison." The Shogun, tired of the pathetic attempts of ...

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