Shiro and Yoshiko are like two ships forever taken in different directions by the wind.
Their quest to be together has taken them from Japan to China to Paris to Egypt, where
their reunions have been fleeting. And yet, they have pledged to belong to only each
other, “If not in life, then in death.”
Samurai: Heaven and Earth Volume Three kicks off on the open sea, with star-crossed
lovers, samurai Shiro and his love Yoshiko torn from each other’s arms after being
reunited at the end of volume two. This time, Shiro crosses the open seas in pursuit of
Yoshiko, who has again fallen into the hands of his arch-nemesis, the Spaniard, Don
Miguel Ratera Aguilar. The journey takes them to the New World at the dawning of the
golden age of piracy. Shiro is now a reluctant crewman on an English privateer during
Queen Anne’s War, when colonial powers battled for supremacy in the Caribbean and the
Americas. When he hears of a Spanish nobleman with a beautiful Asian woman at his
side, Shiro knows his enemy, and his lover, are close at hand.
Shiro must enlist his crewmates in his quest, characters whose origins span both historical
and literary pedigrees. Will this marauding, motley crew be just the allies Shiro needs to
finally be reunited with his lady-fair, Yoshiko, for once and for all?
“Ever since the idea of Samurai: Heaven and Earth first occurred, this is the story we’ve
wanted to tell, the one we’ve been pointing toward. Putting a samurai warrior amidst a
crew of Caribbean cutthroats is the most fun you can have in comics, as far as Luke and I
are concerned. I’ll gladly walk the plank if this isn’t the best volume yet,” writer Ron
Marz said.
Acclaimed creators Ron Marz and Luke Ross reunite for the next volume of their
historical epic. Samurai: Heaven and Earth Volume Three, a five-issue limited series,
sets sail in spring, 2008. Each issue has a retail price of $2.99.