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| - Ronin is the main hero in the 1983-1984 limited comic book series Ronin. He is created by Frank Miller, who is also credited for writing Daredevil, creating the Marvel hero Elektra, creating the Sin City series, and creating Batman: The Dark Knight Returns and Batman: Year One. The title character doesn't have a name and he is simply called Ronin. The name Ronin means a samurai with no master or lord.
- The ideas for Ronin came together while Miller was doing extensive research into Kung Fu movies, martial arts, samurai comic books, and samurai ethics for his work on Daredevil. He remarked that "The aspect of the samurai that intrigues me most is the ronin, the masterless samurai, the fallen warrior. ... This entire project comes from my feelings that we, modern men, are ronin. We're kind of cut loose. I don't get the feeling from the people I know, the people I see on the street, that they have something greater than themselves to believe in. Patriotism, religion, whatever - they've all lost their meaning for us."
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| - Ronin is the main hero in the 1983-1984 limited comic book series Ronin. He is created by Frank Miller, who is also credited for writing Daredevil, creating the Marvel hero Elektra, creating the Sin City series, and creating Batman: The Dark Knight Returns and Batman: Year One. The title character doesn't have a name and he is simply called Ronin. The name Ronin means a samurai with no master or lord.
- The ideas for Ronin came together while Miller was doing extensive research into Kung Fu movies, martial arts, samurai comic books, and samurai ethics for his work on Daredevil. He remarked that "The aspect of the samurai that intrigues me most is the ronin, the masterless samurai, the fallen warrior. ... This entire project comes from my feelings that we, modern men, are ronin. We're kind of cut loose. I don't get the feeling from the people I know, the people I see on the street, that they have something greater than themselves to believe in. Patriotism, religion, whatever - they've all lost their meaning for us." Ronin was in part inspired by Kazuo Koike and Goseki Kojima's manga series Kozure Okami. (Though Kozure Okami would receive an English localization several years later as Lone Wolf and Cub, at the time Miller could not read the text and had to rely on the artwork for his understanding of the story.) According to former Marvel Comics editor-in-chief Jim Shooter, Ronin was originally slated to be released as part of Marvel's Marvel Graphic Novel series. Ultimately, however, Miller was persuaded by publisher Jenette Kahn that DC Comics would give him as much freedom as he desired for the series, and the first issue of Ronin was published by that company in 1983. Despite being both written and drawn by Miller, Ronin was created using the full script method; a full panel-by-panel script was written for each issue before any of it was drawn, though in some cases Miller made revisions to the story after he began drawing. For example, Miller has said that when he began drawing Ronin #1, "There was no explosion, no demon shot across the city. I'd planned a brief skirmish between the demon and the ronin, from which Virgo rescued the ronin. But, as I was working on the sequence, I realized that I had been building and building tension across the story and hadn't done anything to release it. The feeling of the story ... was that it needed something big to happen there, something to release the tension." In part to make room for this additional scene, Miller eliminated an extended sequence involving the Ronin and the woman and child he rescues. Like an earlier DC maxi-series Camelot 3000, Ronin was printed on a higher quality paper stock. Each issue contained 48 pages of story and no advertisements.
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