In the nineteenth episode of Season 10: Dealer's Choice, Kyle is joined for a one-on-one conversation with screenwriter Gio Maldonado to discuss one of the most influential comic adaptations that weaves together its hyper-stylized violence, meditative character morality, and a bleak assessment of Japan through Edo feudal corruption in Kenji Misumi's first installment of the Lone Wolf and Cub film series, The Sword of Vengeance (1972).