Lone Wolf & Cub #18

Band XVIII of the German Lone Wolf & Cub collection from Planet Manga brings another chapter of Kazuo Koike and Gōseki Kojima's celebrated samurai saga, dressed here in a striking cover by Bill Sienkiewicz. His painterly work captures two figures locked in fierce, kinetic struggle — one laughing with wild abandon, the other driving forward with fierce intensity, sparks and motion blurring around them in a haze of gold and shadow. It's a visually arresting package for one of manga's most enduring stories of honor, survival, and the road between life and death.