Returning Series Covers Expected This Week

Two series are expected to return from breaks with covers by Stan Sakai and Jason Howard this week. Four months between issues for Trees, but the regular Usagi Yojimbo series has been on hiatus since early 2012. Will be hard for me to resist picking these up.

Usagi Yojimbo # 145 by Stan Sakai ():

Not sure how I feel about covering up any Stan Sakai cover art, even just empty space, but this design looks good. And high praise for continuing the numbering where it left off.

UY 97

Usagi Yojimbo # 97 was another satisfying issue from Stan Sakai.

Nevertheless, I'm curious if not drawing in more facial details for Usagi in this panel was an oversight: