The story begins with Ka-Zar and his wife, Shanna The She-Devil, suffering domestic discord over the fact that Ka-Zar is polluting their idyllic jungle home with tacky Western technology. He's got a secret gameboy / portable CD player addiction which Shanna doesn't think is too appropriate for a paradise-dwelling hunk who often uses "The Savage" as his second name. (By the same criteria, I reckon Ka-Zar is entirely to blame for the earache he's suffering - what did he expect, marrying a woman whose second name is "The She Devil"?) Further unhappiness comes when Ka-Zar's brother (previously known as The Plunderer - because Plunder is their surname - yet not referred to as such here) sends some bloke who claims to have trained Kraven The Hunter (ooh - he must be even more dangerous than Kraven!) to kidnap Ka-Zar and Shanna's young son Matt (there's an amusing suggestion that Shanna chose the name in tribute to her old boyfriend Matt Murdoch, which adds to Ka-Zar's grievances). Ka-Zar and Shanna then head off to New York for a confrontation with the evil Plunder brother (and the Rhino) in the concrete jungle. Although the main plot concerning just what the Plunderer is up to (something involving Thanos - sigh) isn't resolved in this collection, the strife between Ka-Zar and Shanna does reach a satisfactory conclusion. Waid's script, while not up there with the best of his work, is fun, giving us likable heroes and dastardly villains, while Andy Kubert draws some very nice dinosaurs, elephants and sabre tooth tigers (yay, Zabu, another reason why Ka-Zar is much better than Tarzan). There's also a largely pointless flashback story tacked on the end which Waid has very little to do with - and you can tell - but does at least benefit from early John Cassady artwork.

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