1988 First Comics, Chicago IL, 69 pages

Lone Wolf and Cub is my favorite comic series. I have trouble putting together pictures and text when it has much complexity to it. Lone Wolf and Cub has entire pages of panels without text, just a sequence of images that link together like a static cartoon of the most solemn kind.

The Guns of Sakai is a brief yarn about Kozure Okami, the ‘Baby Cart Assassin’, being hired by a guild of gunsmiths to kill their master. The story becomes a dialogue between too supremely fatalistic characters as to the importance of reverence for weapons as living things that hold the fate of one’s nation in their evolving sights.

If you have not read Lone Wolf and Cub, even if you eschew comics as I have for most of my life, you should give the Baby Cart Assassin a shot.