"The meowing dog is often mistaken for a barking cat..." my daughter came up with that this morning.

This... this might be a solution for the situation our heroes are in right now!

If they disguise themselves as someone the guards are not looking for, they may be able to leave unnoticed.

In other words "These aren't the droids you're looking for"

Your daughter is a prophetess for the Tao.

When you say the pages have been 'reformatted', do you mean they've been redrawn completely or that the dialogue/layout has been adjusted to tell the story better? 

To clarify, the pages have been touched-up, not redrawn. Most of the improvements are in panel arrangement, dialog, and color correction. There's also a new Choism.

 It seems like a long time since we got a choism in the comic ...

 There needs to be "The Book of Choisums"

I'll gladly write a custom Choism for anyone who requests it when ordering an artist edition book. Just mention it in the "personalized message" field.

Agreed! It should be a holy book with many, many wise sayings.
The Book of Cho: Chapter 3, Verse 2:
"The twisted loaf that is our path in life is not a loaf at all, but is in fact a pretzel."
Joe, WRITE THIS BOOK.

I've seen the books first hand. They're mostly dialogue and layout changes. But there's bonus art and some conceptual redraws and preliminary sketches from the days of yore. Also, Hirotomo does a great and lengthy forward.

Digging out with chop sticks... Shanghai Knights! But what is truly impressive when Cho does the Taoist Secret Technique Spinning top of Death in the hole they started. It just has to be deep enough to fool the guards into thinking they had in fact dug their way out. Before they can leave our protagonist drop down from the rafters like the aspiring ninja and take out the guards. Yori and Ken don the guards armour in order to move easily through the town to recover their weapons. By the time they return Cho has thoroughly confused the remaining guards with Cho-isms.

Yori and Cho's attempt at seducing the guards wasn't a complete failure Cho got a phone number out of it. 

Also this is reminding me of Hogans Heroes!!!

That's a good point. Alex does like his escape capers. I'm hoping the escape will be wonderfully and needlessly elaborate, full of cheesy disguises, digging, grappling hooks, and explosives.

Maybe they should challenge their guards to a rousing game of Bushido ball?

Ken is not drinking? I do not understand this page.

See those bandages on Ken? Those are intravenous portals from his jars of sake hidden in his sleeves straight into his blood stream.

It's to be assumed that they took the sake away the moment the chopsticks were confiscated, mostly due to Ken's drunken ramblings of "Screw it, gimme anutha' jug and I'll dig us to China... 'r sumwhere."