A review by nigellicus
Lone Wolf and Cub, Omnibus 2 by Goseki Kojima, Chris Warner, Kazuo Koike

5.0

Lone Wolf And Cub isn't a simple tale of a guy setting out to savagely kill lots of people because of sad back-story stuff. Ogami itto is bound by notions of honour and loyalty and proprietary behaviour, so when he decides to carve his way through Japanese society he does it as part of a rigid and tortuous spiritual journey, a state of being that makes him a living incarnation of death, and he's taken his son along for the ride, adding to the mounting sense of epic tragedy. The duels he fights in particular with other samurai are expressions of martial styles, spiritual philosophy and exquisite manners. It all seems ridiculous, and obscenely wasteful of human life and potential, but it is utterly riveting.