Since first appearing in November of 1984, Stan Sakai's Usagi Yojimbo has become a favorite of librarians and educators and won a Parents' Choice Award, an Inkpot award, multiple Eisner Awards, two Spanish Haxturs, a YALSA award, and a National Cartoonists Society Division award. Dark Horse is pleased to be offering omnibus editions of this beloved series. With more than two hundred issues and counting, Stan Sakai's Usagi Yojimbo is among comics' most monumental achievements. To celebrate the rabbit ronin's thirtieth anniversary, Dark Horse proudly presents Miyamoto Usagi's epic trek along the warrior's path in a new series of deluxe compilations. In this first volume, Usagi protects a village from a band of assassins, reluctantly engages in a duel for blood money, hunts a gangster who has stolen his swords, and more. Collects the following Usagi trades- Book 8- Shades of Death, Book 9- Daisho, Book 10- The Brink of Life and Death Series Overview- Since first appearing in November of 1984, Stan Sakai's Usagi Yojimbo has become a favorite of librarians and educators and won a Parents' Choice Award, an Inkpot award, multiple Eisner Awards, two Spanish Haxturs, a YALSA award, and a National Cartoonists' Society Division award. Dark Horse is pleased to be offering omnibus editons of this beloved series.