RABBIT SEASON
If you’re a Miyamoto Usagi fan, whether the ninja turtles brought you here or you just love the honourable rōnin, you may have heard of the new 5-issue comic series coming soon; KAITŌ ’84. Stan Sakai, creator and author of the Usagi Yojimbo comics (still ongoing since 1987 and now at over 280 issues) has allowed Zack Rosenberg & Jared Cullum to take on this project and I cannot stress how exciting this pre-launch art is.
In the agony of traditional watercolours, Jared Cullum is illustrating the Kaito ‘84 series.
Artwork by Jared Cullum from his Instagram - here
I am so wrapped with this design. A fresh dynamic take that blends his various incarnations. Why does Kaitō have Usagi’s trademark brow scar? We’ll be finding out together.
Meet Miyamoto Usagi’s descendant, Kaitō. The story is set in Osaka in the year 1984 (incidentally, the year Usagi first appeared as a character). Kaitō is a thief, and that’s about all we know of him so far, but is enough to know Usagi would make his ears ring with disapproval. Kaitō gets caught up in a heist for a legendary spear and as with every heist plot line ever we can assume things will go pears. Let’s see if it’s story where he learns some valuable lessons on his grimminygrimminygramdaddy’s tenets of honour, loyalty, and compassion.
Issue #1 releases on March 11, 2026.
