SHI: MANGA #1/2 – W/WIZARD COA – KEY ISSUE – TOM SNIEGOWSKI – BILLY TUCCI COVER – 2000

SHI: MANGA #1/2 – W/WIZARD COA – KEY ISSUE – TOM SNIEGOWSKI – BILLY TUCCI COVER

JANUARY 2000

CERTIFICATE OF AUTHENTICITY ISSUED BY WIZARD

1^ST APPEARANCES – ANA ISHIKAWA, TOMOE

CHARACTERS – ANA ISHIKAWA, YOSHITORA ISHIKAWA, MASAHIRO ARASHI, SHIRO ISHIKAWA, TOMOE

STORYLINE – MANGA SHI: SHISEIJI

Shi: Manga #1/2 (1996) is a special promotional issue published by Crusade Comics in collaboration with Wizard: The Comics Magazine. It serves as a Manga-style retelling or supplemental side-story to the primary Shi: Way of the Warrior narrative.

The issue focuses on the backstory and training of Ana Ishikawa, the half-Japanese, half-American warrior known as Shi. Key plot elements typically explored in this format include:

Family Tragedy: The brutal murder of Ana’s father, Shiro, and her brother by the Yakuza thug Masahiro Arashi.

Sohei Training: Ana’s clandestine training in the ways of the sohei (warrior monks) by her grandfather, Yoshitora, in Kyoto.

Internal Conflict: Her struggle to reconcile her mother’s Christian missionary teachings of peace with her grandfather’s path of martial vengeance.

Visual Style: Unlike the standard American comic style of the main series, this issue utilizes a black and white manga aesthetic to emphasize its Japanese cultural roots.

PUBLISHER – CRUSADE COMICS

WRITER – TOM SNIEGOWSKI

INTERIOR ART – JASON ORFALAS, CLAUDE ST. AUBIN

COVER ART – WILLIAM TUCCI

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