The speaker talks about how Laurent-Désiré Kabila is challenging the rule of Mobuto Sese Seko in Zaire. After that, one hundred and eight more Hutu heads were found on stakes in a clearing. He explains that a local search party that was sent looking for the soldiers disappeared. The speaker then provides some context, explaining how the Hutu who fled Rwanda after losing the civil war were considered assets by the US. He takes time to explain how the heads had been ripped off the bodies, but placed on the poles with precision and care. The person speaking explains how the heads of the three poachers, identified as Hutu soldiers, were placed on bamboo stakes. In Virginia, one week later, Devilin DuPaul enters a briefing at CIA headquarters. One by one, the poachers are lifted into the trees, and we hear cracking noises and see their blood dripping down. They laugh over the bodies, even putting a lit cigarette in the mouth of one, but then they hear some noises above them. We see some mountain gorillas get shot by a trio of poachers.
#Angry giant gorilla series
I was also at a point where I was just beginning to understand the lasting effects of colonialism on much of the world, but am not sure I would have made the connection between characters like Congo Bill (a white man who mentally controlled a golden gorilla) and the racist tropes they perpetuated. I don’t know that I would have known who Scott Cunningham was, or I knew his name from letters pages in books that he edited. I was drawn to the Richard Corben cover and the dark interior art by Danijel Zezelj, who would go on to be a favourite artist of mine. When this series came out, I don’t think I knew anything about Congo Bill and the Congorilla, aside from having probably seen the character show up in things like Crisis. There was a time in my life when I’d pick up just about anything with the Vertigo name on it. Spoilers (from twenty-two to twenty-three years ago)