Satsuma Gishiden 1 by Hiroshi Hirata This samurai comic series gets off to a stunning start: we get captions on the first two pages, then no more words for another 23 pages, just fiery, dynamic and brutal action. 30 pages later he's at the climax of the action - and breaks to give us 25 pages of social context, foregrounding the effects of poverty in the area. This is a very strong special feature of this, that sense of the society and its economics. What seems to be an attack on the Satsuma... read more
