Stan Sakai’s long-running Usagi Yojimbo is about a ronin (masterless samurai) who’s a rabbit in a feudal Japan populated entirely by anthropomorphic animals. In the second issue of Usagi published at Mirage, the long-eared samurai and his companion Gen—a ronin rhino—run into the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. The turtles were summoned to Usagi’s world by a Splinter-esque rat named Kakera in hopes they would help Usagi and Gen protect him and a village of peaceful farmers from a clan of ninjas. Obviously, an awesome team-up, but what I really loved was this page where the Turtles are trying to reason out how and why so many giant talking animals populate Usagi’s world.
I’ll give the best line within this conversation to Gen with his “At least we wear clothes!” but the entire page is pretty fun. Really, do you need a reason to crossover TMNT and Usagi? No, that’s just a case of pure awesomeness being put to the page. But I love that Sakai decided to at least work in the joke of these characters attempting to make sense of the situation. Good stuff.
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This sort of reminds me of the new family guy where they go to a dimension where dogs are the master and humans are the pets… and HEY, where is April? … She was totally hot. Lol.
When I found out that Usagi had his own comic, I was thrilled. Where can I find the comic with the turtles in it? Barnes and Noble? Half Price books? Where? I would love to read the rest of this.
It was from Volume 8 “Shades of Death,” Amanda! A second printing of that volume is coming out soon. You can preorder it here: http://www.tfaw.com/Profile/Usagi-Yojimbo-Volume-8%3A-Shades-Of-Death-2nd-Edition-TPB___344318
It’s a great book, you should definitely preorder that new edition or track an older printing down!