Usagi Yojimbo #124

Twenty-five years into its run and still earning Eisner Award nominations for Best Continuing Series, Usagi Yojimbo #124 kicks off "A Town Called Hell, Part 1" with a cover that says everything about what this series does best. Stan Sakai's artwork puts the rabbit ronin Usagi right in the thick of a chaotic brawl, sword raised as he tangles with a pile of rough animal adversaries — a snarling wolf, a spotted big cat, and a scraggly canine among them — all crammed together in what looks like a very bad corner of feudal Japan. It's the kind of energetic, expressive cover composition that reminds you why Sakai's long-running saga of a wandering samurai rabbit has earned its devoted following.