Samurai Jack and Lone Wolf

[Tonguez]

Just saw SAmurai Jack ep. XIX (returns to his home and remembers his childhood) anyway at one point he sees a man pushing a small child in a baby cart. The man has to fight four men on a bridge ...

ANyway just thought I'd share that tidbit Samurai Jack was inspired to become a swordsman by none other than Itto Ogami
- cool

 

[Krug]

Must get that episode!

 

[Gumby]

I've seen that one too. It's quite a cool scene. I love the look in both Itto's and Daigoro's eyes.

 

[Ferret]

Don't know who they are but I've seen it.

 

[Chun-tzu]

Leaping lizards! Check it out, Lone Wolf fans!

A Wolverine story by the guy who created Lone Wolf & Cub!!!

http://www.newsarama.com/cgi-bin/ubb/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=2;t=000258

There are few high points in a comic book editor’s life, but for Marvel’s C.B. Cebulski, one of them has to be when Kazuo (Lone Wolf and Cub) Koike’s translator called and said that Koike wanted to write for Marvel. The end result, a Wolverine story in X-Men Unlimited #50 hits in July.

(Click on the link to read the rest of the article.)

I want it I want it I want it!!!!!

 

[Turgenev]

Ya, I saw that "cameo" also - very cool. Another cameo that cracked me up was the Samurai Jack episode where Aku is telling the fairy tales to the children in an attempt to portray S.J. as a villain and we have a young kid stand up wearing striped trousers and had a number '4' on his t-shirt. I couldn't believe it, it was Jinpei/Keyops from Gatchaman/Battle of the Planets/G-Force fame.

Cheers,
Tim

 

[WizarDru]

Ya, I saw that "cameo" also - very cool. Another cameo that cracked me up was the Samurai Jack episode where Aku is telling the fairy tales to the children in an attempt to portray S.J. as a villain and we have a young kid stand up wearing striped trousers and had a number '4' on his t-shirt. I couldn't believe it, it was Jinpei/Keyops from Gatchaman/Battle of the Planets/G-Force fame.

Not to mention Totoro showing up, among others. Jack is full of injoke references, not only to Anime and Manga, but to Hanna-Barberra cartoons, like Penelope Pitstop, the Hair-Bear Bunch or Wheelie, for example.

"Jack and the Haunted House" has Jack performing the classic Toshiro Mifune move of running his hand sloppily through his hair while thinking. But then, he borrows from Yojimbo and Seven Samurai on an almost daily basis, so what's not to like?