Dark Horse Comics is celebrating the 30th Anniversary of Stan Sakai’s Usagi Yojimbo with a new limited series premiering in August.  In October it will begin releasing a new series of deluxe compilations of the rabbit ronin’s previous adventures: The Usagi Yojimbo Saga.
 
Premiering August 6, Usagi Yojimbo: Senso will be a six-issue mini-series set 20 years in Usagi’s future.  There Miyamoto Usagi is a general for Lord Noriyuki, battling Lord Hikiji.  In the middle of an epic battle, a rocket ship crashes, and the story takes a sci-fi twist.
 
Beginning October 15th, Dark Horse will release the first volume in the deluxe The Usagi Yojimbo Saga in both limited hardcover and softcover omnibus editions.  The Usagi Yojimbo Saga Volume 1 collects Usagi Yojimbo Vol. 2 #1–#16 and Vol. 3 #1–#6, and will include over six hundred pages of samurai action.
 
Dark Horse will also be releasing a benefit book, The Sakai Project: Artists Celebrate Thirty Years of 'Usagi Yojimbo,' on  July 23rd; with money going to help Sakai and his wife Sharon with her medical expenses (see "Comic Creator Troubles, Relief").