Jon Sable's "Who he is and how he came to be" continues today in a setting with which I have almost no familiarity. Should you be interested in some of the background of the Rhodesian conflict, have a look here - really what a lot of these decolonization conflicts boil down to is that the white colonists basically ignored the tribal or societal lines that existed prior to their arrival and forced countries where there shouldn't have been countries, and once they were done with the continent and left, everything was basically a complete mess. That's a remarkably reductive way of looking at it, but not entirely inaccurate.
Jon spends today as a mercenary in the employ of the government trying to rescue an official's child who has crash landed in a war zone. I can't imagine the kind of chaos that surrounded many, if not all, of the African nations during independence movements. Invariably, unfortunately, they involved a good deal of violence. It does give us an interesting was of parsing Sable's skills, and it's nice to see a combat veteran in an American comic of this era who isn't from the shit show that was Vietnam.
More to follow.
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