Lone Wolf and Cub Omnibus Volume 11 [Paperback]

USKazuo Koike is a prolific Japanese manga writer, novelist and entrepreneur. Early in Koike's career, he studied underGolgo 13creator Takao Saito and served as a writer on the series. Koike, along with artist Goseki Kojima, made the manga,Lone Wolf and Cub, and Koike also contributed to the scripts for the 1970s film adaptations of the series, which starred famous Japanese actor Tomisaburo Wakayama. Koike and Kojima became known as the Golden Duo because of the success ofLone Wolf and Cub. Another series written by Koike,Crying Freeman, which was illustrated by Ryoichi Ikegami, was adapted into a 1995 live-action film by French director Christophe Gans. The author lives in Tokyo, Japan.The swords of Ōgami Ittō and Retsudō Yagyū stand waiting for the mortal enemies' final confrontation, but Yagyū is imprisoned in Edo Castle, with conniving poisoner Abeno as his warden. Retsudō has two deadly options--take Abeno's prepared meals and be slowly poisoned or refuse and die of hunger and thirst!

Created by Kazuo Koike and Goseki Kojima,Lone Wolf and Cubhas sold over a million copies of its first Dark Horse English-language editions, and this acclaimed masterpiece of graphic fiction is now available in larger format, value-priced editions.

The stories in this collection are so well written it is easy to want to read them again and again. But what truly makes it is the art. Beautiful and flowing, many frames are works of art. -geeksofdoom.com