Samurai

In the mid-1980s, Barry Blair’s Nightwynd Productions published this four-issue miniseries, a gritty, black-and-white martial arts epic steeped in feudal Japanese imagery. Written and drawn by Blair himself, Samurai channels the raw energy of the era’s independent comics, blending lone-wolf vengeance with stark, shadow-drenched artwork. Though brief, it stands as a distinctive artifact of the creator-owned boom, showcasing Blair’s ambitious storytelling before his later, more famous work.