Usagi meets Spot the tokage for the first time. An old woman does something terrible to her evil son. Zato-Ino, the blind swordspig, returns for a rematch. An insane samurai fights Usagi. Usagi and Gen return a valuable tea cup to its rightful owner. The Shogun’s Muramasa blade is stolen. And Usagi meets Leonardo from the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles!
Like most Usagi Yojimbo books, The Wanderer’s Road is a collection of short comics – really, really boring short comics! I used to like Usagi Yojimbo so I’m not sure if it’s this book that’s just the suck or whether my taste for Stan Sakai’s brand of storytelling has soured. All I know is that me no like!
The story structure is so predictable and bland. No matter what, Usagi ALWAYS triumphs at whatever he’s doing and ALWAYS wins so there’s never any tension in the “action” scenes. Looking out for a friend, retrieving an item, battling waves of soldiers – eh, all in a day’s work for this guy, no sweat! Zzz… And the TMNT crossover was beyond pointless: Usagi and Leonardo battle ninjas before getting transported away from each other without getting a chance to fight or do anything more than see that the other exists.
Snoretacular – I wouldn’t. Aww. Well. Another comics title bites the dust for me! S’long Usagi!
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