Kelsey Shannon Knihy

Jiro is a student of the KoZu Sword School, an underground training camp in midtown Manhattan that takes in orphans and twists and transforms them into Bushido warriors. The Yakuza use these kids in death matches staged across the city rooftops where Japanese businessmen gamble heavily on the always-fatal outcome. This killing life is all Jiro has ever known. But a rendezvous with fate is about to change all of that. In one moment Jiro realizes that everything he has lived for is a lie. The Samurai live by the Bushido code, one of which is rectitude: the rightings of wrongs. Now with the only ally he has-his sword - Jiro is forced to make the hardest decision of his life.

Eight million robots walk the streets, but this isn't science fiction. This is New York City, top to bottom, from a basement in the last Brooklyn ghetto to the clouds above a penthouse suite on Park Avenue. Welcome to NYC MECH, a sci-fi NYC populated by lovelorn robots that IGN calls "The coolest book on the planet."From acclaimed graphic novelists Ivan Brandon (THE CROSS BRONX), Miles Gunter (ZOMBEE) and Andy MacDonald (RED WARRIOR).

Taking place in present day Manhattan, the story of Bastard Samurai focuses on Jiro, a killer at the top of his class at the KoZu sword school. The underground training camp in midtown takes in orphans and twists them into Bushido warriors used by the Yakuza in death matches staged across the city rooftops where Japanese businessmen gamble heavily on the always-fatal outcome.