The Full Run

This is a big one folks. While this installment of our journey through Stan Sakai’s Usagi Yojimbo features only 3 issues, these issues have great significance to the series going forward. We are introduced...

Following his dealings with the supernatural and the strange, Miyamoto Usagi’s journey would see him return to with more grounded stakes storytelling. This trio of tales from Usagi Yojimbo #7-9 run the...

Following the “Samurai” arc, Usagi Yojimbo would return to its roots, with a done-in-one, feature-length story in one issue, and three short stories in the next. These two issues would see Miyamoto Usagi...

After the "anthology era," Stan Sakai's saga would get its very own series from Fantagraphics Books. Running 38 issues, the first Usagi Yojimbo ongoing series further fleshed out the world of...

Our final installment of “The Ronin” sees two stories, one from a 1986 issue of the anthology Doomsday Squad, and another from Critters.  This is notable as it brings Usagi’s anthology period to an end,...

After three appearances in Albedo Anthropomorphics, Stan Sakai’s Usagi Yojimbo would move over to Fantagraphics, making appearances in the anthology series Critters and Doomsday Squad in 1986. In...

Before getting its own series, Usagi Yojimbo bounced around a few anthology series, beginning with Albedo Anthropomorphics, published by Thoughts and Images. Usagi showed up in the anthology’s second issue,...

When it comes to long-running, creator-owned, independent comics, the true legends can be counted on one hand. There’s Dave Sim’s Cerebus, Erik Larsen’s Savage Dragon, and Stan Sakai’s Usagi...

Here we are. The final issue of Final Crisis. It’s been long, twisty, and like the actual series this feature has had its fair share of delays. Final Crisis #7 (w) Grant Morrison (a) Doug Mahnke (i) Tom...

This penultimate chapter of Final Crisis turns the story from fast-paced event to a Grant Morrison fever-dream of DC mythology. That becomes evident as artist J.G. Jones just is unable to keep pace, as he is...

After a very extended hiatus, we're back with more! While Final Crisis was underway, Grant Morrison was also in the middle of his epic, character-defining run on Batman. Inevitably, there’d be some crossover...

It took us two months, but we're finally back with another installment of The Full Run: Final Crisis. Hope seems lost, but it looks like the tide may start to turn towards the side of good. Why? Well, awesome...

Darkseid’s forces have taken over, and the world’s heroes are scrambling for survival. Things look dire - with little to no hope for the future - but a spark of optimism lingers. Final Crisis #4 (w)...

After a brief trip away, we finally return to Earth Prime. However, we still aren’t back in the main series, as Grant Morrison pens this tie-in featuring Black Lightning and the Tattooed Man. Though it may...

When does a Crisis tie-in feel more like an actual Crisis comic? The answer, of course, is when it’s Final Crisis. Grant Morrison may be driving the main event, but this 5-issue tie-in with an all-star...