Gen and Stray Dog ask for Usagi's assistance with the bounty they're hunting when Usagi's cousin, Yukichi, is kidnapped! Yukichi will be released unharmed-only if our heroes abandon their search and leave the area. Usagi is shocked when his new enemies have something heartbreaking delivered to him to show how serious they are!
Yukichis lighthearted innocence has buoyed Usagi's lonesome journey. But a senseless attack on another samurai's honor could prove his undoing in Usagi Yojimbo: The Crow #2. Read Full Review
Usagi Yojimbo: The Crow #2 features Sakai's fine cartooning, as strong as ever with great expressiveness from its character, and its central theme, that of Yukichi with his youthful idealism regarding the samurai code confronted with the reality of what one must do to survive without a master, is compelling. Read Full Review
Overall this was the part of the story dedicated to getting the pieces together for the overall arc. You see the small characters being introduced that will no doubt play a larger role as the story continues. Usagi spends most of this issue just eating with his old pals. Those scenes did work as a nice comedic counterbalance to what was happening with Yukich. So the list of things that happen in this issue is small, but the benefit is you get to be with these characters and their silly antics. Its like stretching before a major run. It may not be the most exciting but its benefits will pay off later. Read Full Review
Plot
Yukichi accepts that they made a mistake in helping Jimmu without knowing who he was, but now he wants to fix the mistake and look for him to bring him to the law, not to collect his reward, since that is considered immoral for a samurai.
Bounty hunters Gen and Stray Dog ask Usagi to lend them money for their stay.
But there is another bounty hunter named BOSS, who believes that Usagi and Yukichi are bounty hunters, so he kidnaps Yukichi so that he can catch Jimmu. Usagi finds out and now must save his cousin.
Exciting new colorful story arc of Usagi that has all the ingredients that Stan Sakai has been perfecting, mystery, sword fighting, Japanese mythology, horror and that hypnotizing and dizzyin more
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