Samurai bunny

Master at work: Stan Sakai, creator of the Usagi Yojimbo comic book series, at the 2012 San Diego Comic Con.

Comic artist Stan Sakai talks about his long-running Usagi Yojimbo series at the San Diego Comic Con.

BUNNIES are cute. Bunnies are adorable. Bunnies usually don’t go around wielding Japanese katana swords, and chopping off heads. Then again, Miyamoto Usagi, the star of Stan Sakai’s long-running Usagi Yojimbo comic book series, is not just any bunny. He is a bunny samurai, a rabbit ronin (masterless samurai) cast adrift after the death of his master, and now wandering the land on a warrior’s pilgrimage.