REVIEW: Samurai, Son of Death

Writer: Sharman DiVono, Art: Hiroshi Hirata.

Eclipse Comics, 1987.

(This review originally appeared at Weird Crime Theater.)

Because of my own personal experience, I tend to approach fiction about Japan by Westerners with a spoonful of suspicion. Typically I find even pro-Japan works to be either somewhat or grossly based on generalization born of not spending long enough in the country, or not trying hard enough to get to know the people. Though, naturally, my own opinions of Japan are based on my own generalizations as well.

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