SAMURAI EXECUTIONER OMNIBUS TP (2025)

"From Kazuo Koike and Goseki Kojima, the legendary creators of Lone Wolf and Cub, comes Samurai Executioner. Yamada Asaemon tests swords and performs executions for the shogun. The feared 'Decapitator Asaemon' is the last stop for the doomed and often becomes final confessor as well as slayer. Collects all of volume 1 and volume 2, plus 'Hellstick' from volume 3."

"The shogun's sword tester and executioner is a position of consummate skill and great prestige. While the feared Yamada 'Decapitator' Asaemon holds the post, another sword master seeks the office, and this election can be won by only a single vote-cast in steel and certified in blood! Collects stories from volume 3 and all of volumes 4 and 5 of previous Dark Horse editions. o Nearly 800 pages, value priced. 'Fully in keeping with the classic imagery of Koike and Kojima.'-Blogcritics "

"When an execution is ordered of a man backed by hundreds whose vital services the city of Edo desperately needs, the shogunate government seems powerless to act. And so Yamada Asaemon, the shogun's executioner, must carry out the sentence unaided while keeping Edo from descending into chaos! o Nearly 800 pages, value priced. o Lone Wolf and Cub now being published in omnibus format. 'Fully in keeping with the classic imagery of Koike and Kojima.'-Blogcritics"

"Shogunate executioner Yamada Asaemon receives strange requests from the condemned-such as a woman who bequeaths her severed locks and a gardener who asks for the 'beheading' of a chrysanthemum. And while they are strangers to Asaemon, their final moments of life can reveal more of their characters than a lifetime of association. Collects 'Everything but Death' and 'One Too Many' from volume 8, all of volume 9, and volume 10."