Stan Sakai's Usagi Yojimbo Gets a Winter Special and a Full-Color Space Usagi Revival

Dark Horse is closing out the year with two fresh trips into Stan Sakai's samurai-rabbit universe. First up is a Usagi Yojimbo Winter Special one-shot, a $5.99 anthology issue collecting three stories from different creative pairings: Sakai teams with Emi Fujii for a tale centered on the art of making dorodango spheres, Julie Sakai handles a story about woodcutters prepping for the New Year, and Zack Rosenberg and Jared Cullum contribute a Christmas Eve tale about a gang targeting an orphanage. It's set to land January 27, 2027.

Alongside it, Dark Horse is bringing color to a three-decade-old favorite: Space Usagi: Warrior, Sakai's 1996 sci-fi spinoff, is getting a fully colored reissue with Fujii on colors, spread across a three-issue series starting January 6, 2027 at $6.99 an issue. Each issue also carries a new backup story by Shawn Daley, following Usagi stranded on an alien world full of mysterious crystals.

It's a busy stretch for the Sakai corner of Dark Horse's line, giving longtime readers both a nostalgic reissue and new seasonal material to look forward to heading into 2027.

Original reporting: The Beat.