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The Samurai Jack comics is a monthly American comic book ongoing series chronicling the travels of Samurai Jack. The comic book series follows up Season 4 of Samurai Jack of a time-displaced samurai warrior Jack in his singular quest to find a method of travelling back in time and defeating the tyrannical demonic wizard Aku. In February 2013, IDW Publishing announced a partnership with Cartoon Network to produce comics based on its properties. ''Samurai Jack'' was one of the titles announced to be published. It was further announced at WonderCon 2013 that the first issue of ''Samurai Jack'' will debut in October 2013.〔http://www.idwpublishing.com/idw-teams-up-with-cartoon-network/〕 The first comic in the series was released October 23, 2013.〔http://read.idwpublishing.com/Samurai-Jack-1/digital-comic/49614〕 Nine years after the cancellation of Genndy Tartakovsky's show, IDW Publishing had announced a new comic book featuring the continuing adventures of Jack, the temporally displaced warrior and his epic quest to destroy Aku.〔(Cartoon Brew ) Accessed: December 3rd, 2013. | Jim Zub and Andy Suriano Reinvent Samurai Jack〕 Beginning with a five-issue storyline called Rope of Eons. Suriano, who designed characters for the show, reflected on returning to the popular character via press release: “Returning to Samurai Jack is such a personal experience and labor of love for me. It’s like stepping through a time portal back to characters I know as friends and a world that really launched my animation career.” The first volume, which contained Issues 1-5, was released in May 2014. It was made available as both a hard copy and an eBook with a total of 120 pages.〔(Samurai Jack: Volume 1 ) (Issues #1-#5) | Released: May, 2014〕 Volume 2; "The Scotsmans Curse", contains issues 6-10 and was released 28 October 2014.〔http://www.amazon.co.uk/Samurai-Jack-Volume-Scotsmans-Curse/dp/1631401319/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1410855568&sr=8-1&keywords=samurai+jack+volume+2〕 Volume 3, which highlighted the "Quest for the Broken Blade" (Issues 11-15), was officially released on March 31, 2015.〔Samurai Jack: Volume 3 ((Quest for the Broken Blade )) on Amazon.com (March, 2015 )〕 Volume 4; "The Warrior King", concluding issues 16-20, is due to be released sometime on September 1, 2015.〔Samurai Jack | (Volume 4: The Warrior King ) (Released: September, 2015)〕 In January 2015, Jim Zub, creator of the ''Samurai Jack'' comic series, confirmed that the issues would be concluded with issue #20, in May 2015. He went on to state that "Working on Jack has been a project that felt just as creative and expansive as any creator-owned work I've done. Almost every single idea we pitched was enthusiastically approved by IDW and Cartoon Network. We told the stories we wanted to tell the way we wanted to tell them and, from everything I’ve seen and the people I’ve met, the fans thoroughly enjoyed them too. That’s a rare and wonderful thing and I won’t take it for granted."〔(Samurai Jack Ends with Issue 20 ) | Jim Zub (Official Website) Accessed: March, 2015〕 Zub wanted fans to feel that with the comics, there is a sense of closure to the series. In the third season of Samurai Jack there’s an episode called “Jack and Travelling Creatures” where, after trials and tribulations aplenty, we catch a glimpse of a possible future for our wandering hero; we see Jack as an older Warrior-King, a veteran of an untold number of conflicts. Zub stated that the team is "embracing that awesome vision of Jack in a very heartfelt done-in-one story called 'Mako the Scribe'."〔http://www.jimzub.com/2015/01/〕 ==Plot== After the follow-up of episode 52, we find Jack crossing the desert to find a wise old hermit living in a cave. He seeks help on his unending quest to go back in time. The sage tells him that Aku learned his mastery of time travel through an ancient relic known as the Rope of Eons. He studied it, and absorbed its power before destroying it, so others couldn't learn its secrets. However, if the strands are gathered, they can be reassembled to form a rope once again. With that Jack set off and crossed the desert to find a remote underground Colosseum where the first strand lies.〔(Samurai Jack: Issue 1: Plot ) (Review)〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Samurai Jack (comics)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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