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Title: Brink of Life and Death (Usagi Yojimbo, Book 10) by Stan Sakai ISBN: 1-56971-297-2 Publisher: Dark Horse Comics Pub. Date: 19 August, 1998 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.95

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Average Customer Rating: 4.5 (4 reviews)

Rating: 4
Summary: Standard quality fare The setup for Grasscutter
Comment: Yet another series of Usagi Yojimbo comics collected in Graphic novel format.

As always the story and the art are great. The introduction of Inazuma and the story of Noodles are the high point of this book. The introduction of priest Sanshobo will also lead to important tales in the future.

That being said there is nothing particular to distinguish this volume from the others that jumps out at you. This was a transitional period in the comic and the stories reflect it, but it is the reason why I call it standard quality fare. The quality is high but that is the standard I have expected and recieved from Mr. Sakai for decades.

However this fare is deceptive as this will set up the Grasscutter stories to follow.

Buy it.

Rating: 5
Summary: Excellent story & art
Comment: Just thought I'd bring the rating up from that odd 0-star review below.

Sakai is a wonderful visual story-teller who has never disappointed me. Brink of Life and Death is no exception.

Rating: 4
Summary: Very good stories!
Comment: Usagi Yojimbo, is a ronin, a masterless samurai who is travelling the MUSHA SHUGYO ( Warrior Pilgrimage ) to hone his spiritual and martial skills, in his travelling these 10 stories form this book, with the good storytelling of Stan Sakai and the evocative world of the feudal Japan from the XVI century

In this volume we are introduced to three important characters and the stories behind them. The most important is the story of Inazuma a young woman converted in Samurai with a reward upon her head. Then the story of Sanshobo a priest who was a HATAMOTO ( banner-man )and resign that life retiring himself to a monastery. The last story is about a man, Jei, who see himself like an instrument of gods to destroy the evil. We'll find again these characters in the volume "Grasscutter" and can read more of this fascinating story: the adventures of Usagi Yojimbo. You will not regret to buy this book.

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