Story by Kazuo Koike. Art by Goseki Kojima. Cover by Goseki Kojima.
When an execution is ordered of a man backed by hundreds whose vital services the city of Edo desperately needs, the shogunate government seems powerless to act. And so Yamada Asaemon, the shogun's executioner, must carry out the sentence unaided while keeping Edo from descending into chaos. Nearly 800 pages, value priced. Lone Wolf and Cub now being published in omnibus format. 'Fully in keeping with the classic imagery of Koike and Kojima.'-Blogcritics