{"id":7708,"date":"2019-04-21T11:30:06","date_gmt":"2019-04-21T17:30:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/?p=7708"},"modified":"2019-04-21T11:51:10","modified_gmt":"2019-04-21T17:51:10","slug":"lone-wolf-and-cub-co-creator-passes-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/?p=7708","title":{"rendered":"Lone Wolf And Cub Co-creator Passes On"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Kazuo Koike, co-creator of the amazing manga, Lone Wolf and Cub, passed away last week.  During my rabid consumption of Akira Kurosawa&#8217;s samurai films, I stumbled upon the Koike\/Kojima series about a dishonored samurai who takes a path of vengeance to right the atrocities suffered by his family, all done with his surviving toddler in tow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"431\" height=\"366\" src=\"http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Lone-Wolf-and-Cub.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7707\" srcset=\"http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Lone-Wolf-and-Cub.jpg 431w, http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Lone-Wolf-and-Cub-198x168.jpg 198w, http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Lone-Wolf-and-Cub-400x340.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 431px) 100vw, 431px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>If you&#8217;ve never read the 8,700+ page series, it is easy to pick up and even though created in the 1970&#8217;s, it holds up extremely well today.  I picked up the 28 volume series back when Dark Horse comics reprinted it in the early 2000&#8217;s and it remains a favorite part of my collection.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"801\" src=\"http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/footsore-miniatures-Itto-600x801.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7709\" srcset=\"http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/footsore-miniatures-Itto-600x801.jpg 600w, http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/footsore-miniatures-Itto-198x264.jpg 198w, http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/footsore-miniatures-Itto-300x400.jpg 300w, http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/footsore-miniatures-Itto.jpg 719w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Ironically, last week, Footsore Miniatures announced they were making a sculpt of the famous character and cub for use in Grey For Now Games Test of Honour game. I&#8217;m excited to see this inclusion and it can hopefully introduce more to Koike&#8217;s amazing feudal Japan world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kazuo Koike, co-creator of the amazing manga, Lone Wolf and Cub, passed away last week. During my rabid consumption of Akira Kurosawa&#8217;s samurai films, I stumbled upon the Koike\/Kojima series about a dishonored samurai who takes a path of vengeance to right the atrocities suffered by his family, all done with his surviving toddler in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[544],"tags":[815,816,817,535],"class_list":["post-7708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-test-of-honour","tag-kazuo-koike","tag-lone-wolf-and-cub","tag-manga","tag-test-of-honour"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7708","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7708"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7708\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7710,"href":"http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7708\/revisions\/7710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pimpmyboardgame.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}