Some really badass drawings filled throughout this book. Gory and violent samurai demon stuff too. What’s not to love there. Plus it’s got a great story with big explosive panels, all in a nice black and white take. With a look that’s a mix between Anime and American comics nicely blended together. To top it all off, it comes from one creator. So got to appreciate the solo journey of hard work there. A perfect book for Comic of the Week. Check this bad boy out!
After a totally awesome graphic novel of Dead Ronin, issues 1 – 4 comes the next installment in the series. It has been a little while since, full on creator, Luke Brown has worked on the comic and this comeback is something else. The first round of issues were already superb, with totally sweet artwork and a great samurai story mixed with monsters and demons. But the art in 5 has just been dialed in to 11 and even has a more serious tone to the drawings, which I think is the right choice. Plus Luke seems to get so much information across on each page, with highly detailed renditions of the old school, Ronin world.
Like taking what was already a fantastic read and then going that extra level up in the continueing saga of Dead Ronin. So come on by and give this series a read, best to start at the begining but fun times await you once you get here. If you dig Samurai X, Samurai Champloo, Akira Kurasawa flicks and throw those Japanese monsters in too. This book is for you. Or if you’ve never been down the road to old Japan, here’s your gateway. Enjoy the adventure to come.
You want to read one of my Top 3 most recommended comic series on Comix Central? Well look no further than the ever impressive Dead Ronin series from Luke Brown of Lab 5 Studios. When you already got it turned up to 11, you don’t think it can get any louder, correct? Wrong! Luke goes the distance and takes an already delicious and ultra bloody, black and white art book and finds a way to make it just that much more dialed in. Yeah buddy!!!
Well in issue 6 here we find Kiyoko, Hitoshi’s new traveling partner, escaping out of a Lady Spider Demons web with a Japanese umbrella monster that turns into a masamune sword and gives her sick armor and bad ass abilities. How dope is that. Beyond the amazing bit of action scenes we see more of our villain, Gashadokuro and our Dead Ronin hero, Hitoshi with his child being held captive by this evil doer.
This book catches back up to issue one, where issues 2-5 were an origin story, we are now back in the fray of things. With 2 more comic books to go for this storyline, I can not wait. It is that good. And made by only one fella too. How bout them apples. So if you have yet to read 1-5, grab those bad boys off of Comix Central now and then get ahold of 6. I talk a bunch more about this book in episode 11 of the Indie Comix Club Podcast too. Come on by and have a listen.
So make sure to grab the whole Dead Ronin series for $6 at your friendly neighborhood indie comics shop, Comix Central.