Some slabbed ALBEDO's for you guys :)

[Rickdogg]

ALBEDO'S Slabbed

 

Enjoy

[comicinvestor-migration]

Excellent feedback rating.

[Rickdogg]

hey it's flawless HEHEHE.

 

If he's somewhere near Anaheim, CA I can take a look

[aardvark88]

Sorry pogey-boy Bronty, but he will not ship to Canada. Choke.

[Rickdogg]

If bronty really wants it, I can have this guy ship these to me & I wil gladly ship to canada

[greggy]

I think Bronty will get a woody looking at the #3!

[fantastic_four]

What's the appeal of Albedo/Usagi Yojimbo? Are these characters some sort of parody of Japanese institutions? That's the first thing I think of when I see a Samurai rabbit.

[Rickdogg]

It surely doesnt interest me, but some people love em

[Guest]

usagi yojimbo is just what it looks like- an anthopomorphic chan-bara. Nothing parodic about it at all. A great series by an amazing comics artist.

[fantastic_four]

Ah, yes, that's exactly what I was thinking, "this looks like an anthropomorphic chan-bara."

 

I'll go look up the word "anthropomorphic," but what the heck is a chan-bara?

[Guest]

it's the japanese word for an action film featuring samurai. it's representative (to the japanese ear at least) of the sounds of battle (swords clashing, etc.)

 

What I mean is, aside from the fact that it features animals in all the roles (which is where the anthropomorphic comes in- I though that was a pretty comoon word amongst the comics crowd,no?), Usagi Yojimbo, is a pretty straight-forward story in the vein of the samurai films of the 60s and 70s. It is of the same strain and pays homage to films like: Kurosawa's Yojimbo and Sanjuro (two seminal and trend-setting films in the genre that added both ultra-violence and humor as essential genre elements;) the Zatoichi series (27 or so films starring Shintaru Katsu as a bilnd, wandering swordsman- on IFC as the "Blind Swordsman" series) and the Baby Cart films and manga ("Lone Wolf and Cub") among others.

[Bronty]

Bah! #3 is common! 10,000 printed. Compare to #1 and #2 (2000 printed) or #4 (3000 printed).

 

Rick, thanks for the offer , I may take you up on it if the #2 is cheap enough.

 

Danno

[greggy]

Ooops, sorry soon to be employed again funny animal boy!

[Rickdogg]

Let me know

[Bronty]

Thanks.

[Bronty]

Looks like putting that 9.8 #2 on eBay was akin to shooting myself in the foot. Look at what some of these putzes want for Albedos now:

 

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=723439165

 

On the plus side, I have never seen so many of these early issues available on eBay in the same month.

[greggy]

You have started the Silver Age of Albedo listing!

[Bronty]

Seriously. Talk about bringing copies out of the woodwork. But at what cost?

[greggy]

Hey, that was a "donation" so bid it up for a good cause!