Usagi Yojimbo by Stan Sakai. Opening tonight is actually a backup, chibi-style story from the previous issue. The thread was just out of room to post the whole thing, so here it is!
Previous threads:
Annual Usagi Yojimbo Storytime pt 29
Luke Taylor
Other urls found in this thread:
Brody Harris
Levi Mitchell
Christopher Hernandez
Kayden Gray
Chase Campbell
Brandon Reed
And now our regularly scheduled issue.
Anthony Torres
Nolan Ramirez
Asher Baker
Aiden Jackson
William Turner
Mason Martinez
Jordan Torres
Evan Peterson
Juan Jenkins
Parker Robinson
Cooper Foster
If only Kitsune had remembered this was the town with a competent cop
Ayden Torres
Ryder James
Noah Miller
Andrew Williams
Juan Price
Ayden Garcia
William Sanchez
Hunter Ortiz
Parker Jackson
>Ishida has to resist showing the door his jitte
Henry Hall
Kevin Gray
Hudson Wright
Brandon Baker
Bentley Lewis
Aaron Morris
Cooper Garcia
Nathan Smith
Nolan Martin
Christian Thompson
Joshua Sanders
>professional thief
>loudly narrates her way through the robbery
Jordan King
Wyatt Sanders
Chase Taylor
Noah Nelson
Kayden Morales
Nathaniel Thompson
Ryan Murphy
Jayden Turner
Parker Mitchell
Xavier Ramirez
Dylan Rodriguez
Zachary Cooper
Noah Powell
Henry James
Evan Edwards
Julian Barnes
Mason Smith
Anthony Martinez
Ian Kelly
Noah Price
Cooper Thomas
Tyler Nelson
Isaac Ross
Nicholas James
Brayden Baker
Christopher Flores
Christopher Hall
John Gutierrez
Colton Butler
Eli Cook
Grayson Hill
Joshua Rodriguez
Jacob Edwards
Cameron Davis
Sebastian Nelson
Juan Ward
Lincoln Taylor
Chase Torres
Anthony Nguyen
Landon Johnson
Christian Diaz
Christian Russell
Parker Cook
Ayden Jenkins
Adam Scott
Nolan Price
Jackson Gonzalez
Lucas Perry
Noah Flores
Isaiah Roberts
Grayson Wood
Andrew Sanders
Cameron Roberts
Jose Kelly
Noah Davis
Blake Martinez
Connor Sullivan
Kevin Davis
Owen Sanchez
Isaiah Hall
Jack Parker
Sebastian Mitchell
Robert Carter
Colton Martin
Benjamin Rodriguez
Noah Adams
Chase Powell
Daniel Evans
Nicholas Cruz
Luke Russell
Jaxson Edwards
Xavier Young
Josiah Watson
Austin Turner
Parker Lewis
Colton Robinson
Jackson Miller
Joseph Bailey
Going to bed but will read in the morning. Have a bump.
Brandon Howard
Nicholas Johnson
much appreciated! Rest well.
Colton Roberts
Blake Adams
Tyler Scott
Aaron Long
Evan Rivera
>I'm starting my own gang! With blackjack! And hookers!
>In fact, forget the gang!
Andrew Campbell
Leo Young
Ayden Wright
Alexander Williams
Juan Adams
Kayden Sanchez
Samuel Price
Jacob Morgan
William Rogers
Owen Edwards
Blake Carter
Dominic Brooks
Colton Torres
Brody Morgan
Christopher Myers
Lincoln Cooper
Ayden Wilson
Benjamin Morris
Thank you for reading! Tomorrow we'll go through The Hidden, a 7 issue arc that forms the last of what's normal continuity currently published. After that, it's pretty much on to the Legends Saga book and a TMNT crossover or two. Have a good night, and have fun posting those edits!
Henry Baker
Suddenly, ARTIFACTS
Camden Sanders
Usagi got beat up for three days straight to get you your damn dango, way to be a jerk katsuichi.
Luke Carter
Respect the Jitte???
Hunter Gomez
Talk about your final insults!
Jayden Sanchez
I mean, everyone except Noodles narrates.
Hunter Nguyen
When can I post OC?
Anthony Anderson
>kitsune panicked so hard she JPEG'd the whole page.
Oliver Anderson
Can't they take at least one?
Luis Jones
>Oh boy it's an Usagi thre
>Kitsune
FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK! This is seriously out of hand
Brayden Peterson
Hey, she gets arrested this time, and actually shows something approaching standards.
Justin Rivera
And then she and Kiyoko steal the jite and laugh about it.
Evan Sanders
>54 times
Hey Dharmanon, we've got another thing for you to keep count of.
Logan Gomez
It's technically progress that Ito's telling him to follow the evidence, but it sure doesn't feel like it.
Connor Moore
Nii is Nezumi confirmed.
Samuel Bell
I've wanted to post this since last night
Kayden Myers
SHE'S GUILTY, GET RID OF HER.
Dominic Ramirez
My fanfic about Usagi:
Usagi talking with many other animal people:
"Usagi will never work with Kappas. Have you ever seen him working in a team with them? There is not enough money in this world or enough people to make him work with them. Are you guys going to stop of being paraonid? Why would someone think such thing?"
Evan Jones
I love Kiyoko and Ishida in panel 4.
Adam Torres
Up!
Carter King
Time for me to post the few edits i made yesterday for the previous thread!
Andrew Allen
And then, UNSPEAKABLE EVIL!
Angel Foster
Nice
Samuel Walker
Pfft, you actually see the exact moment when she swiped it between panels and why nobody noticed. That's great.
Jeremiah Robinson
Stan can be pretty good for detail sometimes.
Christopher Rogers
Come on, man, at least shave her head or something.
David Morris
Sigh. Ok Kitsune, sometimes you CAN be adorable. If you only weren't a cunt to your friends...
Oliver Howard
>he actually treats her like the cunt she is for a second and gets exasperated
Is this the answer to our pra-- Oh.
Christopher Parker
I really enjoy the Inspector Ishida stories, they are like a cop show in feudal Japan. Also the character chemistry between Usagi and Ishida is brilliant.
Connor Bell
Are we finally done with Kitsune stories for a bit. I swear she's shown up at least once a story time.
Grayson Foster
>...temporarily. Deadly yellow snow crystal aren't known to blind even the weakest fur trappers
Juan Sanders
>SHASHAHA
>POCKET SAND!
Isaac Allen
Wait a minute, didn't we already read a story about Nezumi being used as a scapegoat for murder...
Robert Gutierrez
I like Kitsune stories. I hope she shows up even more.
Robert Taylor
>The master
I bet its
Brody Sanders
Since we're almost done with the regular comic (only 7 issues left till Dark Horse run is over) and mostly down to spin-offs... No, there won't be any more Kitsune soon. Even the upcoming IDW issues don't mention her.
Brandon Nguyen
But what if it's Nii?
Oliver Price
Of COURSE! He's a communiist! How could I have been so BLIND
Owen White
What I really like about those issues is that Kitsune did not limit herself to stealing and actually did something good (saving Usagi) and that she actually had to use her wit and charm instead of Usagi's swords to get out of trouble. This is the best she has been written in years. She seems more charming than a jerk, like it alwaysbshould have been.
But Kiyoko officially becoming a more skilled pickpocket than Kitsune is the highlight of the story. People tend to miss that detail.
Asher Clark
Yeah, the fact that she actually refuses to steal from the dead and is credible about her disgust with it also has a much better ring to it than the "herp derp, this house is full of loot but I'd better steal what that ninja's stealing anyway" thing with Chizu where she just comes off as a retarded no-reason troll.
Luke Morales
What a mature person.
John Moore
That's such a cool cover.
Sebastian Wright
I think sometimes Stan makes Kitsune and Kiyoko way too greedy and much too willing to abuse Usagi's friendship for achieving their goals. In this story even the stealing of 'The Jitte!' seems playful, because the thieving duo does not cross the line - they actually help with the problem at hand instead of being a part of it. On the other hand we have The Thief and the Kunoichi. I like that story a lot, but apart from one or two scenes with Kitsune and Kiyoko being clever and funny, they spend all the time actively trying to get killed either by the mob or the ninja like a pair of suicidal morons. Most of the appeal of the story comes from Chizu being constantly angry at them and not taking their shit.
tl;dr Kitsune works fine as a charming thieving asshole as long as her thieving is not causing all the problems in the story or it actually helps solve them.
Christian Anderson
Oh no pocket sand!
Matthew Baker
Kinetic card!
Kinetic card!
Kinetic card!
Ayden Davis
I just realized he always has his right eye shut.
I wonder if that's a clue to his identity.
Jaxon Gonzalez
The fucking balls informant has.
I'm starting to think he's a ferengi in anthro form stuck in Japan.
Ryan Smith
What a twist.
Lincoln James
>I just realized he always has his right eye shut.
Ryder Carter
based ishida
Robert Hall
VULCAN DEATH GRIP
Landon Anderson
>I bow to you as the master
Holy crap! Kyoko is the one running everything!
Nolan Young
Whaaa? What gave you THAT idea? Silly user, little girls can't be criminal masterminds!
Ryder Jackson
Bump
Robert Adams
Spoiled for lewdness
Kayden Robinson
Its the suitcase from pulpfiction
Juan Ross
thats scandalous user
Christian Ortiz
B-but user... Mayumi is worst girl
Isaiah Young
YOU'RE WORST GIRL!
Austin Johnson
...
Andrew Martinez
Got something to add, munchkin?
Asher Lee
God danm it 4channel post the image
Bentley Gutierrez
Mayumi may not be best, but she's far from worst. Unlike Kitsune and Mariko.
Aaron Turner
Does Usagi Yojimbo migrating to IDW from Dark Horse count towards the horse death count?
Christopher Rivera
I wonder if it means we'll be getting more turtles crossovers
Elijah Watson
kek
I don't think Sakai is responsible for killing that particular horse, though? Rather the opposite if anything.
Blake Flores
Hey guys, i fixed it!
Angel Scott
Nice.
That is almost guaranteed. I wonder if it opens way for Usagi/Batman (or other) crossovers. Recently the Turtles have had one every year (they are pretty good!), because those made them appear in the Injustice 2 game and there's even an animated movie coming out soon.
Ian Morris
If the rat wizard summoned Batman, would he turn into a komori ninja?
Aiden Carter
This is how I interpret what has happened.
DH has been struggling with worsening sales for some time and had quite a few internal problems to boot - for example, did you notice how much behind they were with Usagi Yojimbo TPBs? They only caught up because Stan stopped working on the main comic for almost 3 years. Their only good idea in the last 10 years of publishing Stan's work was releasing the Saga books. So when Stan recently got to work with IDW, he saw how work looks in a much more functional company than the one he was used to (shocking, since we're talking about IDW, a publisher known for it's many problems), which was also open for his terms as an independent creator. After the crossover, The Hidden storyline got renumbered by DH as issue #1 to boost the sales in a last ditch effort to keep Stan from changing publishers (he himself diplomatically called it "a gimmick"). It apparently did not work as well as DH hoped it would, or maybe Stan knows a lot more about DH problems than we do and decided to leave anyway, because now we're getting Usagi in color from IDW. Apparently Gen and Sasuke will be the first familiar faces to appear. Unless IDW goes down as well - they had a huge financial loss in 2018 and the future of the entire company is very uncertain...
Brody Hall
>for example, did you notice how much behind they were with Usagi Yojimbo TPBs?
Only for the last fifteen fuckin' years, user. I've been assmad about it for longer than I've had the right to vote.
Luis Sanchez
The hidden was the first usagi I picked up the individual issues of. I had no idea it was that bad
Jose James
Dark Horse is bleeding properties in general. Counting only the biggest ones, they lost Star Wars to Marvel when Disney bought Lucasfilm, then Alien and Predator are temporalily in limbo after Disney bought Fox (those most likely will also go to Marvel), Hellboy and BRPD are ending and now Usagi went to IDW. They have almost nothing left.
Mason Bell
Bamp.
Gabriel Wright
How's Dynamite? They print all sorts of crazy crap.
Jordan Johnson
Yeah, but it's mostly crazy or crap and Usagi is none of those. If IDW fails, then the last reasonable chance is Image.
Mason Roberts
>the last reasonable chance is Image
In a crisis, he could just go back to Fanta. I imagine he had his reasons for leaving them in the first place and that those were good reasons, given what faggots they can be, but at least the whole series would finally be reunited under one label again.
Angel Howard
I'd love to see him be able to go the self publishing route but that's a battle and a half.
William Powell
I honestly don't want him wasting time and effort on self-publishing, it would steal his energy from writing the comic.
Owen Diaz
Time for The Hidden. Last of the regular continuity, and also special because this issue came out around the time I started storytiming last year.
Cameron Turner
Nathan Barnes
James Martinez
Gavin Turner
Zachary Jenkins
Ayden Turner
Christopher Edwards
Oliver Sullivan
Connor Perry
Bentley Cox
>DHC 24
Sebastian Martinez
Sebastian Scott
Jaxon Nelson
what's this symbol?
I have a pretty good intro level grasp of mons and things but I can't really tell here
Joseph Anderson
Daniel Roberts
The Shogun's seal
Kayden Myers
Hudson Hughes
Nolan Gonzalez
huh I guessed iti was something like that but it looks nothing like the clan mon of the shogun
Ryan Cruz
David James
Charles Parker
N'aw shtfuck.
Benjamin Carter
Benjamin Rodriguez
Blake Ramirez
Colton Butler
Evan Mitchell
Tyler Brown
>Confirmed count: 4
Levi Smith
Well, I should also remember the accomplice. So 5.
Liam Harris
Thomas Ross
Landon Myers
Bentley Myers
Jacob Young
Dominic Martin
Stan's been pretty reserved, how many threads has it been since the last? Then again, it's hard to bring a horse into Chanbara Police Procedural.
Luke Wood
Ryder Price
Brayden Allen
thread 24, apparently
Julian Martin
Ayden Foster
Kevin Ortiz
Sebastian Evans
Cameron Lewis
Adam Gonzalez
Isaac Foster
Connor Wood
Nathaniel Collins
Ayden Foster
Tyler Cooper
Xavier Wilson
Jordan Gonzalez
Hudson Diaz
Andrew Perez
Mason Reyes
Robert Ortiz
Camden Reed
Julian Bailey
Landon Carter
Charles Jackson
Henry Baker
Robert Carter
Brayden Perez
Henry Ramirez
Easton Robinson
Brandon Sanders
Justin Bailey
Nolan Turner
Alright, got a plate of hard boiled eggs with 4 different hot sauces a energy drink and some Usagi Yo Jim Bob
Evan Young
>Hermy doll on the right
Alexander Sullivan
ha ha ha wow
I love it
Colton Barnes
Carson Watson
Hudson Long
Bentley Cox
Jeremiah Sullivan
Elijah Jones
Levi Price
Cooper Harris
Wyatt Scott
You have to admire the snitch's work ethic
Noah Scott
Wyatt Gray
Lucas Adams
Nathaniel Perez
David Lewis
>Chief Inspector Ito has arrived
youtube.com
Oliver Diaz
Nathan Rivera
ishida and usagi
please please I want this buddy cop movie
Eli Martinez
Dominic Gonzalez
I can't believe Chibi-Tomoe is fucking dead.
Dylan Harris
I'd best set up a new thread for the rest of the issues. One moment, please.
Matthew Morris
I am waiting with baited breath
Mason Wilson
NEW THREAD
Evan Cox
That statue is probably the bustiest design we've ever seen out of Sakai.
Noah Wilson
I mean it can't be too complicated for them to get.
They believe in magics that have multiple levels of magic trickster foxes.
Charles Long
MY MAN
Alexander Smith
RIP
Eli Young
One word: westaboo.
Blake Walker
This innkeeper looks..familiar.
>Empty room, no Informant
>Informant's in the room now
>No Innkeeper