Sabu the Bruiser

A story of two men sharing stories of Sabu, a local tough guy and kamikaze trainee who survived the war. The conversation leads to the older man remarking that, “After the war was over... We were all still hurting. None of our wounds had healed yet.” (Source: The Comics Journal)

This comic depicts a kind of piecemeal post-war commune, one that hosts drifters, con men, and other lost souls. Its inhabitants live in makeshift huts on a grassy plain that was once a military site, bombed and destroyed by US pilots. (Source: The Comics Journal)

The story follows “Wandering Wolf”, it puts two men under the same awning as they wait for a storm to pass. They meet as strangers, only for the younger of the pair—a criminal on the run—to realize that the other one is “Kamikaze Sabu,” a brawler he admired in his youth. (Source: The Comics Journal) *Note: the first chapter was published in the June 1976 issue of Yagyo. The second chapter was published in the September 1976 issue of Garo.*

A collection of short stories about the desperate lives of men and women who are stuck at the bottom.