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July 9th, 2008 at 8:15 pm
Best one yet? Reckon so…
July 9th, 2008 at 8:43 pm
It’s like Jamie Hewlett’s Usagi Yojimbo… I assume you’re familiar with UY, tBMD? I’ve never read or seen any of it.
July 9th, 2008 at 9:29 pm
Yes, my favourite too. It suggests a whole world.
July 10th, 2008 at 9:43 am
Never read any Stan Sakai, even though he’s been working for about 30 years…not abig fan of his style, although a lot of people dig him. Maybe one day.
July 10th, 2008 at 3:55 pm
I get the Usagi Yojimbo reference. But don’t get anything else. Can someone explain?
July 10th, 2008 at 6:44 pm
What I like about it may well be invisible to American eyes.
The hoody (sartorial choice of Britain’s harassed working classes), the bleak seaside backdrop, the cold (English) October day, the reference to Wrexley-on-Sea, a fictional, but, if real, almost certainly rundown coastal town (like so many others).
And in conceptual tension with all that grimy realism, a sink estate samurai, waiting on a hill to defend his shitty, lovely little corner of the UK from whatever terrible threat haunts the icy air.
July 11th, 2008 at 5:45 pm
Qthgrq is the exact.
It’s Usagi Yojimbo’s British working-class cousin. Instead of protecting a mythic version of feudal Japan the hero is plonked down in (feudal) Wrexley.
I’d love to see this guy’s ongoing adventures.
July 11th, 2008 at 11:01 pm
Yeah - I didn’t mean to imply it was a tribute or homage even, more coincidence; it’s just an anthropomorphic rabbity-looking chap wiv a samurai sword. I could, I suppose, as easily have said Sam (of ‘& Max’ fame; that cartoon was excellent) fame who’s an… echinoderm or something, not a rabbit. Of course, he doesn’t regularly carry a samurai sword.