Lone Wolf and Cub, Volume 2: The Gateless Barrier

by Kazuo Koike, Goseki Kojima (Artist), Frank Miller (Cover Artist)

Overview

The epic continues! Among the five stories in this issue: Cub has been captured while Lone Wolf lies unconscious! All of Cub's captors are cruel, all but the osue (the lowest maid). But her help may be her undoing. The household waits for the feared Lone Wolf to come looking for his son...and when he does...pick up Volume Two to find out what happens — plus four other great stories, as this classic epic continues!

This volume includes the following stories:
Red Cat
The Coming of the Cold
Tragic O-Sue
The Gateless Barrier
Winter Flower

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781621150671
Publisher:	Dark Horse Comics
Publication date:	10/12/2010
Series:	Lone Wolf and Cub Series , #2
Sold by:	Penguin Random House Publisher Services
Format:	eBook
Pages:	296
Sales rank:	204,707
File size:	168 MB
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About the Author

Kazuo Koike is a prolific Japanese manga writer, novelist, and entrepreneur. Early in Koike's career, he studied under Golgo 13 creator Takao Saito and served as a writer on the series. Koike, along with artist Goseki Kojima, made the manga Kozure Okami (Lone Wolf and Cub), and Koike also contributed to the scripts for the 1970s film adaptations of the series, which starred famous Japanese actor Tomisaburo Wakayama. Another series written by Koike, Crying Freeman, which was illustrated by Ryoichi Ikegami, was adapted into a 1995 live-action film by French director Christophe Gans.

Goseki Kojima was a Japanese manga artist known for his collaborations with Kazuo Koike. The team was often referred to as the “Golden Duo.” Kojima’s best-known work was Lone Wolf and Cub. Other titles attributed to Kojima are Samurai Executioner and Path of the Assassin. In 2004, Kojima won an Eisner Award.