Lone Wolf and Cub, Vol. 3: The Flute of the Fallen Tiger
He was once a Shogun's executioner, honored, exalted, feared. But after the murder of his wife and family, Itto Ogami takes his surviving child, little Daigoro, and becomes a masterless samurai, a Lone Wolf, the Baby Cart Assassin. Theirs is a dark voyage fraught with death, treachery, and...
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He was once a Shogun's executioner, honored, exalted, feared. But after the murder of his wife and family, Itto Ogami takes his surviving child, little Daigoro, and becomes a masterless samurai, a Lone Wolf, the Baby Cart Assassin. Theirs is a dark voyage fraught with death, treachery, and vengeance, and their stories have captured audiences across the globe, both in graphic novels and in the exciting television and movie series they spawned. Long out-of-print in America, and never-before-published Stateside in its preferred Japanese pocket-sized format, Lone Wolf and Cub is again available to English-speaking audiences in all the gut-wrenching power and blood-stained glory that has made this landmark series an international legend.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9781569715048 (1569715041)
Publish date: July 10th 2001
Publisher: Dark Horse
Pages no: 304
Edition language: English
Category:
Adventure,
Cultural,
Historical Fiction,
Asian Literature,
Japan,
Sequential Art,
Graphic Novels,
Comics,
Graphic Novels Comics,
Manga,
Japanese Literature
Series: Lone Wolf and Cub 0 (#3)
Another excellent volume in this series. Some very good stories where the assassin takes jobs for various reasons, some very moving. This particular volume features the story from the assassin's path detailing a betrayal and the loss that would drive him to become the assassin known as Lone Wolf and...
I think that my status update: "Ah, memories. When I was around 12, "Flute of the Fallen Tiger" was the bloodiest thing I'd ever seen, and "Half Mat, etc." was one of the most sad." pretty much sums this volume up. As an adult, neither of those superlatives may be true, but it's overall an extremely...