The release date for the English version of 'One Piece, Volume 2: Buggy the Clown' by
Eiichiro Oda is Dec 2003. If you enjoy this novel, it is available for buy as a paperback from Barnes & Noble or Indigo, as an ebook on the Amazon Kindle store, or as an audiobook on Audible.
When he was younger, Monkey D. Luffy made a promise to rise to the position of Pirate King and locate the fabled "One Piece." Luffy now has the ability to stretch like rubber thanks to the magical Gum-Gum Fruit, and his new crewmate, the notorious pirate hunter Roronoa Zolo, makes other buccaneers afraid! But what chance does one rubber man have against Captain Buggy, a cunning pirate lord whose bizarre, clownish look hides even stranger abilities, or Nami, a burglar so tough she specialized in stealing pirates? In One Piece's second thrilling volume, it's pirate vs pirate!