Zagor LU #137: Stroj smrti
Zagor races to stop a colonel exploiting Professor Verybad’s invention: a machine that turns insects and spiders into deadly weapons, now directed against Zagor himself.
In Stroj smrti, Zagor discovers that the insect attacks are no natural disaster. At Fort Jericho, Colonel Truscott is conducting criminal experiments on civilians with Professor Verybad’s invention, a device capable of controlling insects, spiders and other small invertebrates. The seemingly inexplicable infestation is actually a deliberately directed weapon.
Escaping from the fort, Zagor sets out to find Verybad and persuade him to destroy the apparatus. Truscott, however, refuses to surrender his advantage and turns the machine against Zagor himself. Facing swarms of tiny attackers, the hero cannot rely on strength and agility alone: he must reach the people controlling the threat.
Moreno Burattini combines frontier adventure with science fiction and insect horror, placing scientific responsibility and the military abuse of technology at the centre of the conflict. Nature becomes an instrument of human cruelty, giving an otherwise familiar wilderness an unsettling new danger.
Illustrated by Gaetano Cassaro, this issue concludes the two-part adventure begun in Ludens #136, Kukci ubojice. Reading the two issues together provides the complete development and resolution of the mystery.
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