By Stan Sakai

Fresh from winning the Best Serialized Story 1999 Eisner Award for Grasscutter, Stan Sakai returns with a new Usagi Yojimbo collection featuring six tales of the ronin rabbit's journeys and adventures in feudal Japan. 'My Father's Swords' retells an encounter with a young samurai who follows in - and is followed by - the footsteps of his father's warrior heritage. In 'The Demon Flute,' a village is plagued by a music-playing supernatural killer. Usagi recounts a classic Japanese folk tale in 'Momo-Usagi-Taro.' Two Tokugawa-era whodunits play out in 'The Hair Pin Murders' and 'Taméshigiri,' a pair of Inspector Ishida mysteries. Usagi becomes entangled in a conspiracy to overthrow a lord's throne in 'The Courtesan.' Memory, mystery, and treachery intermingle to form Grey Shadows.