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Ka-Zar
Ka-zar: The Burning Season
Threats to the Savage Land come from outside and within, as Ka-Zar struggles to make sense of growing conflicts among his people. With a terrible famine raging across Pangea, Outsiders are making plans to return. The forests burn as Pangeans strike deals with terrestrial corporations. And complicating this, the reemergence of an ancient threat: the mysterious Ether Tribe, who have returned to punish anyone who dares deal with the outside world. Standing at the center of these myriad conflicts: one man and his tiger. Can Ka-Zar save his kingdom before it's too late?
COLLECTING:
KA-ZAR (2011) 1-5
COLLECTING:
KA-ZAR (2011) 1-5
- GenresComicsGraphic Novels
120 pages, Paperback
First published January 11, 2012
About the author
Paul Jenkins
1,296 books158 followersPaul Jenkins is a British comic book writer. He has had much success crossing over into the American comic book market. Primarily working for Marvel Comics, he has had a big part shaping the characters of the company over the past decade.
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May 2, 2015
So that's why it was in the bargain bin...
January 21, 2019
As a kid, I loved Ka-Zar. Who WOULDN'T love a guy making friends and hanging out with a sabertooth tiger? A guy so tough he could fight dinosaurs, and win?
Ka-Zar: The Burning Season isn't about Ka-Zar so much as it is about the Savage Land. It's about the tribes that inhabit the Savage Land, how they interact with each other, and how each views the World Outside and those who come from it – including, in some cases, long-time resident Ka-Zar. (For some reason, no one seemed to address the “outsider” status of his wife, Shanna. Perhaps some of the tribes and/or their more vocal members are a bit misogynistic?)
It also addresses the morality of the outside world interacting with the Savage Land and its residents, as the United Nations discussed this during a humanitarian crisis where a drought was leading to famine and to death among some of the tribes. AND, as one might expect, it discussed the possibly ulterior motives of those choosing to provide “humanitarian” aid.
Recently, a young missionary was killed when he illegally visited an isolated tribe in the Indian Ocean, a tribe that had zero interest in dealing with those outside of their limited world. Ka-Zar: The Burning Season addressed this kind of issue, but it was published approximately 7 YEARS before the incident. Sometimes, comics can make you think. Sometimes, comics SHOULD have made you think.
RATING: 4 1/2 stars, rounded down to 4 stars where 1/2 stars are not permitted.
Ka-Zar: The Burning Season isn't about Ka-Zar so much as it is about the Savage Land. It's about the tribes that inhabit the Savage Land, how they interact with each other, and how each views the World Outside and those who come from it – including, in some cases, long-time resident Ka-Zar. (For some reason, no one seemed to address the “outsider” status of his wife, Shanna. Perhaps some of the tribes and/or their more vocal members are a bit misogynistic?)
It also addresses the morality of the outside world interacting with the Savage Land and its residents, as the United Nations discussed this during a humanitarian crisis where a drought was leading to famine and to death among some of the tribes. AND, as one might expect, it discussed the possibly ulterior motives of those choosing to provide “humanitarian” aid.
Recently, a young missionary was killed when he illegally visited an isolated tribe in the Indian Ocean, a tribe that had zero interest in dealing with those outside of their limited world. Ka-Zar: The Burning Season addressed this kind of issue, but it was published approximately 7 YEARS before the incident. Sometimes, comics can make you think. Sometimes, comics SHOULD have made you think.
RATING: 4 1/2 stars, rounded down to 4 stars where 1/2 stars are not permitted.
January 25, 2019
The art was odd. The scenery was pretty, the animals looked good, and the weird people looked good, but the normal people were just off. The faces were not right, and sometimes the proportions seemed skewed.
The story was a monotonous and repetitive mess of, 'Can't we all just get along?'.
The story was a monotonous and repetitive mess of, 'Can't we all just get along?'.
November 16, 2020
Pretentious, badly paced and disjointed. I can’t imagine an audience for this.
July 27, 2022
Simply dreadful. Paul Jenkins is a good writer but this is not a good story. Poor dialogue, mundane and pointless plot. The art was subpar. This isn't a story anyone will revisit.
October 5, 2022
Goodreads password SNAFU locked me out from April to October, so I’m just adding all the books at once. Read dates aren’t accurate.
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