An old piece from the old account (It's still signed as FOX-POP)
... I still love it and it's pretty much rare that I like an old drawing xD

Who loves the comic [i]Usagi Yojimbo©[/i] will love or hate this! No halfways! ;)

This crossover was an attempt on [b]totally changing a context without changing
the characters nature[/b] (I drew them with Sakai's style to make this concept even
more evident). Thinking about wild west, I first found a role for each character:

•Usagi as a bounty hunter
Miyamoto Usagi is a ronin (a samurai who lost his lord), helping around just in
exchange of the strict necessary for him to keep himself alive. The counterpart
of a ronin in a Wild West context might be a roaming bounty hunter. Someone
who roams from town to town looking for fugitives to capture for a reward.

•Jei as a bounty killer
Jei is Usagi's nemesis. He's a ronin too, but he's evil to the bone and loves to
kill people indiscriminately. Being similar to Usagi, I automatically saw him as
a roaming bounty killer. Unlike the bounty hunter, the bounty killer actually
kills fugitives for money, instead of capturing them.

•Kitsune as a cheater
In the original comic, Kitsune is one of Usagi's friends... she is a street performer
during the day and a thief during the night (...and day too). In this case I merged
her street performer abilities to her slinky nature. I'd see her perfectly as a saloon
girl who loves to gamble and -first at all- to cheat.

About the cover... I clearly took inspiration from Sergio Leone's movies posters. (if
we talk about wild west movies you can <u>NOT</u> ignore them!!!), in particular from
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly and For a few dollars more posters... also, I prefer-
red to change those Technicolor and Techniscope brands on purpose... ;D

If that would have been a real movie, uhh... they'd have got up to all sorts of things!
Well... Enjoy! If you want to leave a <u>constructive</u> critique go ahead! I don't bite! ;D

Pencils, inks, colors and postproduction by me.