Ka-Zar is Finally Accepting His Place as a Marvel God
Warning: contains spoilers for Ka-Zar: Lord of the Savage Land #5
Ka-Zar, Marvel's Protector of the Savage Land, is finally accepting his role as a God of nature. The role endows him with a variety of new abilities that make him much more powerful than he was before. It also opens up exciting new directions for the future of the character.
Kevin Plunder is actually the second character named Ka-Zar to appear in Marvel Comics, but he is the more iconic version by far. He is a hero operating out of the Savage Land, a prehistoric jungle habitat located in Antarctica. After being stranded there as a child, he was raised by the Smilodon Zabu and grew to become a protector of the Savage Land. While historically not having any superpowers besides slightly enhanced physical abilities, after dying and coming back to life in the events of Empyre, Ka-Zar gained a supernatural connection to the Savage Land. This connection allows him to share sensations with the Savage Land itself and lets him take on the properties of any animals native to the habitat. It also causes him to resurrect whenever he dies in the Savage Land. Ka-Zar's journey to come to grip with these powers is at the heart of Ka-Zar: Lord of the Savage Land, a mini-series written by Zac Thompson with stunning art by Germán García, Álvaro López, and Matheus Lopes.
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In the fifth and final issue of this series, Ka-Zar finally accepts what his new powers actually mean after being killed in a fight with the primordial bacteria Domovoy the Flesh Weaver. As his body is being reconstituted by the Savage Land, he realizes that his human identity as Kevin Plunder is what has truly died. His role as Ka-Zar,
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