Lone Wolf 2100 is a re-imagining of Lone Wolf and Cub by writer Kazuo Koike. Lone Wolf and Cub was a story of a ronin and his son. It was a very good series, and it won numerous accolades. The creaters of this book worked very closely with Mr. Koike to manage the feel of the original series. Things however have changed drastically in this rendition. There is a plague ravishing this futuristic world. Itto Ogami (the ronin) is an intelligent machine bodyguard, who was assigned to protect a scientist who was working on the cure for this plague. There was a small hitch in this arrangement. The scientist is dead and Itto is now traveling the countryside protecting the scientist’s baby daughter from the legions trying to get her. The people that want her seem to think that she’s carrying the plague in her blood stream. I have a sneaky suspicion that she carries the cure in her bloodstream and someone evil and high up doesn’t want this cure getting out. The story is excellently done. I enjoyed it very much. The art however, is a little more cutesy than I’ve become accustomed to in a Lone Wolf and Cub story. The story is so good that one can ignore the difference in art. Overall, I’d say that this is an decent homage to the original series. I have some problems envisioning Itto as an android who is acting on orders from his owner, rather than a human acting on honor and compassion. Honestly, I’ll have to read the rest of it before I can say whether it fully succeeds in its endeavor to re-imagine Lone Wolf and Cub. I recommend that you pick it up for yourself and form your own opinions.

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