L'uomo venuto dall'Oriente

Subject and script: Moreno Burattini
Artwork: Massimo Pesce
Cover: Gallieno Ferri

Any samurai who fails to follow his lord into death becomes a Ronin: a Wave Man, a warrior without master, the saddest of conditions for those who live according to the Bushido code of honor. And yet, young Takeda does not join prince Minamoto’s samurais in committing seppuku, the ritual sacrifice of the Japanese. Instead, the oldest of his comrades in arms entrusts him with a mission: to find and kill the man who defeated their lord, in order to avenge his death. And for Takeda the target to be destroyed, which has by now become the one and only aim of his life, has a very precise name: Zagor! After leaving Japan to make his way to faraway America, the young samurai reaches Darkwood in search of the Spirit with the Hatchet and sets about preparing his revenge…