Usagi Yojimbo #17
1998
- Series
- Usagi Yojimbo
- Issue
- 17
- Cover date
- Jan 1, 1998
- Story title
- Grasscutter, Chapter 3: Inazuma
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Usagi Yojimbo #17, published by Fantagraphics Books in 1988, serves as a pivotal installment in Stan Sakai's long-running series following Miyamoto Usagi, a rabbit ronin in feudal Japan. This issue was produced during the title's initial run at Fantagraphics, a period where Sakai was meticulously refining his blend of anthropomorphic characters and authentic samurai cinema tropes, heavily influenced by the work of Akira Kurosawa and Hiroshi Inagaki.
Sakai designed the series to be both an homage to historical Japanese aesthetics and a character-driven adventure. By this seventeenth issue, the narrative had firmly established its reputation for rigorous attention to period detail and balanced pacing. Critics and readers of the late eighties celebrated the book for its ability to maintain a serious tone while operating within an imaginative, all-animal world, cementing its status as an enduring classic of independent comics.
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