Bonds of love and friendship are strong, but some can only be preserved when they are severed. Vash must leave his friends and happiness behind as he walks the treacherous and bloody path prepared by Legato. The body count begins to rise as the Gung-Ho Guns enter the picture, but Vash will do anything he can to preserve life. In “Little Arcadia,” insurance investigators Meryl and Milly defend a courageous pair of homesteaders against an evil land baron and his hired thugs, the bizarre Marilyn Nebraska and Friends–with Vash supplying a little covert assistance. The tone darkens as the conflict between Vash the Stampede and the bloodthirsty Legato Bluesummers escalates. Legato murders criminals, whom he dismisses as trash, “to teach them the pain of living.” His actions and attitude appall Vash, who values life.

Rather than duel with Vash, Legato hires the Gung-Ho Guns, a succession of weird assassins. Vash outwits Dominique the Cyclops, whose mysterious powers derive from the Demon’s Eye of the title. In “Fifth Moon,” the futuristic samurai Rai-Dei the Blade wounds Vash and threatens to kill him. His threats trigger a violent, unexpected reaction: Vash somehow produces a blast of energy that levels the entire city, burns a gaping hole in the moon, and attracts itinerant preacher Nicholas D. Wolfwood. The power he unleashes explains Vash’s alternate moniker, “The Humanoid Typhoon.”

As they watch the destruction from a distance, Meryl and Milly are heartbroken to learn they’ve been taken off the supervision of Vash and ordered to return to Bernardelli Insurance Society headquarters.

Rated for ages 13 and up for violence. –Charles Solomon

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