Dark Horse released Trigun in two volumes, which I think were like omnibus editions of the manga. Then they started releasing Trigun Maximum, which I think went on for roughly a dozen, more normal-sized manga volumes.
The former reached the point when Vash the Stampede creates a giant crater in one of the moons. The latter picks up a couple of years later, when the traveling priest/hitman Nicholas D. Wolfwood tracks Vash down and forces him to step back into the spotlight.
I guess Trigun Maximum gave Yasuhiro Nightow the opportunity to expand that part of the story beyond what it got in the anime. Also get a bit weirder with some of the characters. So Wolfwood was far from the only young man trained to be both a priest and hired killer, and Zazie the Beast, rather than being some kid with a device that can make the giant, native sandworms go nuts, is actually a collection of an intelligent colonial native insect species wearing a human skin as a disguise, who teamed up with Vash's brother, Knives, on the shared belief of, "humans are an infestation and should be exterminated."
I gave up on the book somewhere around volume 4 or 5. I think Vash was in the middle of some fight with Hoppered the Gauntlet, and it was near-incomprehensible. A bunch of panels of characters leaping around in an empty white space, no sense of where anybody was in relation to each other or anything else. Like someone let Vince Colleta loose on the book. Plus, it felt as though, with more page space, Nightow was going to really drag things out. And I was pretty well satisfied with how the anime handled things, so that was that. Move on to other pastures.
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