Next year, Sakai will be the subject of an exhibition at Los Angeles' Japanese American National Museum. Sakai also noted that #141 will be the 200th issue of "Usagi Yojimbo," taking into account its runs at Fantagraphics and Mirage as well as several specials. So the Lord of Owls makes a return and some questions get answered, but there are more questions than answers when he appears." Following the Lord of Owls story in January, there will be a two-part arc called "The Red Scorpion," in which "Usagi goes against a gang who are terrorizing the entire area.'" "Usagi bewildered him - there's death around Usagi, but he's not sure if it's Usagi's death or his own death. He's very mysterious - supposedly, he can see the death of people," Sakai said. He has appeared once, more than 100 issues ago. "The Lord of Owls was only in one short story, but he's become a favorite of a lot of Usagi readers. Not yet solicited but teased on Sakai's web site, after "Toad Oil" in #134, the next one-shot story features the return of the enigmatic Lord of Owls.
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So it'll be a lot more, plus it'll be about the same price as buying them in the trade paperback." The slipcase edition will also reprint an early interview with Sakai, updating it with additional commentary which the author composed in recent months, and Usagi's crossovers with the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, some of them rarely seen. "It's also going to publish all the extras that were only in the hardcover, with the exception of the full-color story that was published in the book 4 hardback, because that was reprinted recently in 'The Art of Usagi Yojimbo.' But this is the sketches and covers and things that were included with the hardcover editions. "It'll be all the Fantagraphics stories in a two-volume slipcase hardcover edition. Sakai told us Fantagraphics first approached him about doing a special deluxe collection of the original material in conjunction with Usagi's 25th anniversary in 2009, but the project was eventually pushed back to 2010. CBR News spoke with Sakai about the deluxe collection and what's coming next for the regular series. Next year marks Usagi's 200th issue, a testament to the longstanding success of a 1980s indie comics darling. Last year saw the publication of the fully-painted "Yokai," the first original "Usagi Yojimbo" graphic novel and the release of the long-awaited Usagi plush doll.
Meanwhile, Dark Horse, Usagi's current home, continues to publish the adventures of Sakai's anthropomorphic hero monthly, in what are mostly one or two-issue self-contained stories.
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In October, Fantagraphics - the first publisher to offer an ongoing "Usagi Yojimbo" series - will release "Usagi Yojimbo: The Special Edition," a two-hardcover slipcased collection of the original run, currently available as seven trade paperbacks. EXCLUSIVE: Pages from Sakai's "Usagi Yojimbo" #132Stan Sakai's rabbit ronin continues to stand up for the helpless and punish the gangs that terrorize the countryside in a stylized feudalistic Japan, more than twenty five years after his first appearance.
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