Friday Night Fights: Battle Without Honor Or Humanity
May 2, 2008 | Posted by Chris Sims Not even the Criterion Collection Kurosawa Box Set can sate Bahlactus’s hunger for samurai action!
You know what’s even more awesome than Stan Sakai’s rabbit samurai? Stan Sakai’s rabbit samurai… IN SPACE
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…that’s not his eyebrow!?
Nope. It’s a scar. I always thought Usagi was just really inquisitive.
I thought it was his eyebrow up until I read the story where he got cut. Space Usagi FTW, seriously.
Lovin the Guilty Gear reference in the first pic’s alt text.
Sadness = Remembering again that you’ve long since lost your Usagi figure from the TMNT toy line…
Just when you think that Usagi couldn’t be any better, you get Space Usagi. Man, I love that book.
I go back and reread the entire trade every year or so. Sooo awesome.
I picked this up at a comic fair a couple of years ago. The fair was a limited selection of crap and I felt I had to buy something to justify going to the thing. I soon found out I had purchased the joyous needle from the haystack of cut-price Dreamwave comics, old Vampirella magazines and buckets of 90s X-men toys.
Yeah, come to think of it Usagi -is- scruffy and unkempt enough for the Sanjuro reference.
No spectacular, explosive blood spray though? Disappointment.
Wait, Usagi’s name is Miyamoto? Two things come to mind
1) Ooh what a give away
2) What the hell is a yojimbo?
“Yojimbo” means “Bodyguard.”
Also, it means “fucking awesome samurai movie
.”
Ah, Yojimbo was a good movie–good enough for Sergio Aragones to rip off, er adapt, into another good movie.
On a sidenote, I saw this and thought it appropriate to the ISB:
http://picklejar.comicgenesis.com/comics/girlvsbear.html
Damnation, I meant Sergio Leones.
Two people who make things I like shouldn’t have the same first name.
Okay, seriously.
How is there *not* an Usagi Yojimbo videogame?
And I thought I was the only one who mistook the scar for an eyebrow for ages …
And to reiterate your point:
Usagi Yojimbo = AWESOME
Reth:
There was, on the SNES iirc. Wiki is your friend, I’d imagine.
Good post, nice and clear, thanks. Are you going to do an update on this post? I will subscribe to this blog!