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    Samurai Jack #10
    Released by: IDW Publishing
    Released on: July 30th, 2014.
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    Once again written by Jim Zubkavich and now illustrated by Andy Kuhn, Samurai Jack #10 starts off with a very dramatic splash page in which the evil wizard Aku blurts out one single word - “HOW?” He's frustrated that his foe continues to be able to outwit him no matter how brilliant or nefarious his schemes to eliminate him may be. He comes to the realization that since Jack is able to take on any physical attack sent his way that he should try to go for his brain. After all, Aku tells us, “his mind is small and squishy and weak.”

    Meanwhile, Jack sits in the desert in solitude thinking back to the days when his father taught him about the stars. A bird with a familiar face arrives, morphs into an insect and then crawls into the samurai's ear as he drifts off to sleep. Now inside Jack's head, Aku starts messing with those memories first messing up one of his father and then one of his mother. Would should be tender reminiscences become the stuff of nightmares, and we see Aku work his sinister magic on years of Jack's remembered past. Jack, however, will not go down without a fight, even as he sleeps.

    Another fun self contained story, this one gives us some welcome, if fleeting, glimpses into Jack's life before he became the sage samurai we all know and love. There are some fun details here that add to the humor in the book (we see a Jack in his early twenties at a very nineties era rave) and so too do we see him as an infant, a toddler and a young boy, almost always learning some sort of lesson. His mother and father appear in the story as well, but almost all of this tale is told from Aku's point of view. This allows Zub to write some ridiculously dramatic internal monologues from the evil wizard's side of things and that too helps to add some humor.

    Andy Kuhn's artwork is a little different than what came before it but he is still very much playing by the Samurai Jack style guide. That's a good thing. It's familiar enough to fit in alongside the other stories but he manages to work his own little touch into the panel layout and the character design. Josh Burcham's color work is once again top notch and it really helps to elevate the penciled artwork in every way good color work should. Throw in a fantastic cover by Andy Suriano and this turns out to be another solid entry in the line.






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