Yep. There was a Chuck Norris comic for a little while. Any you know what? This particular issue, at least, was way better than it had any right to be. It's proof positive that you can tell a good story regardless of the setting and characters, and any inherent ridiculousness therein.
In today's issue, we get three stories of how Tabe (the sumo wrestler) first met Chuck, as he tries to help some other members of the "Kommandos" with problems they're having. As a side note, I've never really understood the proclivity to replace a letter with another letter just to have it match the first letter of another word. Commandos still alliterates with Karate without misspelling it. And when those words are only spoken (like in the cartoon that this comic is based on), the replaced letter simply makes no sense.
Just a small thing, and it doesn't take away from the masterful storytelling by Jo Duffy and Steve Ditko. Though I know little to nothing about any of the characters in this comic, their interactions with Tabe reveal depths both to those the sumo helps and to the wrestler himself, so much so that I'll probably pick up another issue of the series if I see one on the cheap because I'm actually interested in the characters. I'm probably kidding myself that they'll be as good as this issue, but you really never can tell.
"And now, Chuck Norris, we shall see which of us is the superior swordsman."
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