A review by gslife
Usagi Yojimbo: The Special Edition by Stan Sakai

5.0

Usagi Yojimbo is a comic about a 17th century ronin (masterless samurai). He's also a rabbit. This is about as fantastic as you'd expect. Artist Stan Sakai is a genius, as he's also writer, penciler, and letterer. Sakai's beautiful imagery is heavily influenced by Japanese cinema such as Kurosawa. The cast of characters are all anthropomorphic – cats, pigs, rhinos, dogs – but it's not childish. Characters die, and frequently. Longer storylines have incredibly complex plots. At this point, there's quite a few collections of the series, and you can jump in at any point.