{"product_id":"lone-wolf-and-cub-omnibus-volume-11-isbn-9781616558079","title":"Lone Wolf and Cub Omnibus Volume 11","description":"The swords of Ōgami Ittō and Retsudō Yagyū stand waiting for the mortal enemies' final confrontation, but Yagyū is imprisoned in Edo Castle, with conniving poisoner Abeno as his warden. Retsudō has two deadly options--take Abeno's prepared meals and be slowly poisoned or refuse and die of hunger and thirst!\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCreated by Kazuo Koike and Goseki Kojima, \u003ci\u003eLone Wolf and Cub\u003c\/i\u003e has sold over a million copies of its first Dark Horse English-language editions, and this acclaimed masterpiece of graphic fiction is now available in larger format, value-priced editions.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"The stories in this collection are so well written it is easy to want to read them again and again. But what truly makes it is the art. Beautiful and flowing, many frames are works of art.\" \u003ci\u003e-geeksofdoom.com\u003c\/i\u003eKazuo Koike is a prolific Japanese manga writer, novelist and entrepreneur. Early in Koike's career, he studied under \u003ci\u003eGolgo 13\u003c\/i\u003e creator Takao Saito and served as a writer on the series. Koike, along with artist Goseki Kojima, made the manga, \u003ci\u003eLone Wolf and Cub\u003c\/i\u003e, and Koike also contributed to the scripts for the 1970s film adaptations of the series, which starred famous Japanese actor Tomisaburo Wakayama. Koike and Kojima became known as the \"Golden Duo\" because of the success of \u003ci\u003eLone Wolf and Cub\u003c\/i\u003e. Another series written by Koike, \u003ci\u003eCrying Freeman\u003c\/i\u003e, which was illustrated by Ryoichi Ikegami, was adapted into a 1995 live-action film by French director Christophe Gans. The author lives in Tokyo, Japan.","brand":"Dark Horse Manga","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46304152977637,"sku":"NP9781616558079","price":24.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781616558079.jpg?v=1767731687","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/lone-wolf-and-cub-omnibus-volume-11-isbn-9781616558079","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}