Haven't started getting ready for the con yet. I need to tonight or tomorrow so I can come home Thursday night and go straight to sleep.
I finished reading "Duel at Kitononji" before heading off to work today. This is the 17th volume of collected Usagi Yojimbo, I think. I've been reading this comic since about 1984, when I was first getting into comics, when it was published as part of Steve Gallacci's multi-comic manga... can't remember the name off hand. When my cousin Jim Hirtzel lost his leg and was in a hospital here in Seattle I bought him copies of the first three or four collected Usagi. I think he liked Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles at the time, but he liked the Usagi Yojimbo comics quite a lot. He's grown and with his own kids now. My nephew Austin would probably like these comics too, but it's not as easy to buy the full set as a gift these days. ^_^
Anyway it was always a fun comic but over the years has become such a rich and deep and long saga that it really has few peers. Stan Sakai is a master at what he does. I was thinking it would be very cool to see the entire saga animated... would take hundreds of episodes to do it all of course, but I can dream.
Otherwise life is quite ordinairy, which is good because I like ordinairy.
I finished reading "Duel at Kitononji" before heading off to work today. This is the 17th volume of collected Usagi Yojimbo, I think. I've been reading this comic since about 1984, when I was first getting into comics, when it was published as part of Steve Gallacci's multi-comic manga... can't remember the name off hand. When my cousin Jim Hirtzel lost his leg and was in a hospital here in Seattle I bought him copies of the first three or four collected Usagi. I think he liked Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles at the time, but he liked the Usagi Yojimbo comics quite a lot. He's grown and with his own kids now. My nephew Austin would probably like these comics too, but it's not as easy to buy the full set as a gift these days. ^_^
Anyway it was always a fun comic but over the years has become such a rich and deep and long saga that it really has few peers. Stan Sakai is a master at what he does. I was thinking it would be very cool to see the entire saga animated... would take hundreds of episodes to do it all of course, but I can dream.
Otherwise life is quite ordinairy, which is good because I like ordinairy.