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I took a different approach--instead opting to go with the Lone Wolf 2100 version of this classic storyline. A mix of sci-fi and samurai storytelling, this version of Lone Wolf features a female "cub" named Daisy and her protector Itto who holds a fascinating secret. Francisco Ruiz Velasco did a fantastic job of bringing this futuristic, but horribly ruined world to life. If you haven't read this series, I'd look it up in TPB format and highly recommend it.

This piece pretty much just fell out of my head and onto the page through my pencil.  I did it in blue pencil again, but tweaked it to the red in Photoshop.  There's some discrepancies with it, but overall I think it's a successful piece.

Lone Wolf Jam

I don’t know all that much about “Lone Wolf and Cub” and that makes me kind of sad. It looks pretty cool! I do remember being show a scene of it in High School for my Japanese class though.  I guess the main protagonist's family is killed except for his infant son. He puts a ball and a sword on the floor and tells his son to choose between the two. If he chose the ball, the father would kill him and send him to heaven to be with his mother. If he chose the sword he would live and become Ronin like his father. The child briefly walks towards the ball first and the father almost draws his sword to cut him down, but then the baby chooses the sword. Friggen crazy! LOL

Anyhow this is my entry for this week. Like I said I don’t know much about the series so I did a sketch jam with a non-sequitur montage motif using the panels from the manga that I found.

Done in ball point pen and pencil on Bristol plate

Lots of people coming out for this pick. Apparently the magic word with this group is Samurai! :D

~Don

Lone Wolf and Cub

I feel guilty about having never read this series ... and I've also not seen the movies. *gasp*

Another thing I feel guilty about is not coming up with an amusing title for this. I'd love to hear your suggestions. Here, I'll start with ... "Who Run Japantown?". And ... go!

"Lone Wolf and Cub" ... ink on 15"x11" Strathmore illustration board by Robert Elrod.



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