Usagi Yojimbo #2

The second chapter of "Noodles" arrives with a cover that perfectly captures the tension of feudal Japan through Stan Sakai's deceptively charming art. Usagi himself peers cautiously around a shoji-screened doorframe, hand on his katana, while an unseen adversary's blade juts into frame from the right — a quiet, masterfully composed moment of anticipation. This 1996 Dark Horse miniseries continues to prove that a rabbit ronin in a kimono can carry as much quiet menace as any samurai story.