Hey, the Afro Samurai manga is finally being released Stateside, and it’s from… TOR/Seven Seas, WTF? Not sure how that happened, but they got Joshua Fialkov on board for the adaption, and Josh is cool people.

Volume 1 includes Takashi Okazaki’s original 8 page doujin as a neat little bonus supplement — and I do mean little since they pages are more like thumbnails =/

What caught my eye was seeing how the art changed. For example, here’s a comparison of the first panel of the manga and the first panel of the original. I guess someone let Bob (I love that Okazaki’s nickname is “Bob”) know those big lips were not gonna fly with the US market…

You can click here for full-page scans:
Manga page 1 vs doujin page 1.