The Definitive Shi

    (Crusade, 2006)
™ and ©2006–2007 William Elliott Tucci

From the publisher:

Born of a Japanese father and American mother, 10 year-old Ana Ishikawa witnesses the brutal slaying of her father and brother. The child is consequently spirited away and raised by her grandfather, Yoshitora, a descendent of the Sohei, the great warrior monks of meieval Kyoto.

Shrouded in secrecy, Yoshitora trains Ana in the ways of the Sohei—her sole mission in life is to seek out her family’s murderer and avenge her family’s honor. Never forgetting the Catholic teachings of her mother, however, the girl’s life becomes one of constant inner conflict between her programmed mission of revenge and the Christian leanings she secretly harbors.

With her conflicted soul weakened, this vengeful obsession consumes Ana’s very being, as she transforms herself to Shi—the living embodiment of Death, a phantom who since childhood, has terrified and encouraged the woman’s bloody crusade.

And yet the duality that rages within Ana’s soul will not permit her submission to the death demon that terrorizes her. For Ana’s faith and the ethereal visionsof her gallant ancestral Sohei shepherd her along the bloody way of the warrior.

The Essential Warrior is the first volume collecting William Tucci’s multi-Eisner award nominee Shi. 576 pages of story and art that showcases the entire runs of the acclaimed “Way of the Warror,” “Tomoe,” “Rekishi,” and “Senryaku” featuring the top superstars in comics including Barry Orkin, Peter Gutierrez, Gary Cohn, Dan Mishkin, Amanda Conner, Jimmy Palmiotti, J.G. Jones, Jim Lee, Joe Quesada, George Pérez, and many, many more.
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