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Type of bind: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 741.5973
EAN num: 9781569718933
ISBN number: 1569718938
Label: Dark Horse
Manufacturer: Dark Horse
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 104
Printing Date: March 05, 2003
Publishing house: Dark Horse
Sale Popularity Level: 457984
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A young girl may hold the key to saving the world -- or destroying it. A corporation wants her secret -- no matter what it may be. Her only companion is an android -- who is accused of killing her father. The very first full-length adventure of young Daisy Ogami and her android protector Itto is now available in one volume! Plunge into the dystopian world one hundred years in the future, where human-like 'Emulation Constructs' fight to enjoy the same rights as their human creators, where the vast majority of the world's human population struggles to eke out an existence in a hostile landscape, and where both sides are victim to corporate whim and the deadly effects of a manmade plague. Collecting the very first four issues of the series. A ground-up re-imagining of the original Lone Wolf and Cub manga, this series is being done in association with, and under the watchful eye of Kazuo Koike, the writer and co-creator of Lone Wolf and Cub.
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When I saw that Dark Horse Comics was starting a new Lone Wolf series set in the 22nd Century, I was quite interested. Typical of me, I really didn't think through the changes required to move the story several hundred years into its future. How this is done will make or break the story, especially since the moody atmospherics of the original series is so well known.
Instead of a father and son team, we find Itto, the Lone Wolf, is a battle android of awesome powers. He is fleeing Cygnat Owari's corporate hegemony where he was once high in its security organization. A modern samurai, if you will. His young companion is the small daughter of Dr. Ogami, who was working on a cure for a war created plague before Itto was ordered to kill him.
Thus the story's basis echoes the original, but many of the similarities are indistinct. Daisy, the young girl, is still nothing like the original son - she is a purely passive plot device. The technology overwhelms the story while what made the original was the careful cultural setting. And Itto falls short of the ingenuity of his predecessor.
Really the differences are extensive, but that is the creators' right. This is not intended as a slavish imitation, but a new thing that acknowledges its origins. But, I found it quite jarring at very first when things refused to settle into the old pattern. Once I got my head around it, though, I began to like the work more and more. However, I do think it lacks a bit of the artistry of the original series.
The artwork is good - in colour as well. It has moments where it captures the original style. I thought that it as almost to wordy, but there is a lot to explain in the very first issue to get the reader oriented. Given a chance to develop, the series has considerable potention, and is worth hunting down for a close examination.
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