Path Of The Assassin, Vol. 3: Comparison Of A Man (v. 3)
The third volume of the graphic-novel biography of Tokugawa shogunate founder Ieyasu and his personal ninja Hanzo is nearly all development. Ieyasu walks a tactical tightrope between the factions contending for rule--one led by his de facto father, the other by his older brother--in the run-up to a decisive battle that hasn't broken by volume's end. In the middle of this, Hanzo encounters the female ninja who will be his wife in an ultimately erotic episode worthy of the best in Koike and Kojima'sSamurai Executioner. Relatively wordy but brilliantly paced and, of course, drawn.Ray OlsonCopyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved