ELEKTRA THE HAND TP ***OOP***

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New TPB – Retail 13.99 – The Hand (5-issue mini; w Akira Yoshida; a Christian Gossett). [From Marvel Comics: The Hand — few names have ever instilled such terror in the very soul of the Marvel Universe! Elektra witnesses a mystic ceremony that leads her to the never-before-revealed origin of the Hand, the world’s most deadly assassins! In feudal Japan, a single murder fuels one young samurai’s struggle for dominance — a struggle that will lead to the inception of this immortal ninja clan. And when a foreign merchant sends his beautiful daughter to learn the ways of the warrior, a cycle is set in motion that will change the Marvel Universe… forever!] Old Book of the Week 1/12/05: [OK, so it’s only a week old, but this unexpectedly nifty book, tracing the origin of Elektra’s former assassination guild, The Hand, both tells a very interesting story of early modern Japan and shows that Red Star artist Christian Gosset can draw with a pen as well as a computer. Elektra herself does not appear except in a framing sequence, but frankly she is not missed.]