Chico Kolor #8: Chico konkvistador
After accidentally sinking a Spanish shipowner’s vessel, Chico’s ancestor flees to the New World and becomes the cook of conquistador Hernán Cortés.
The hero of Chico konkvistador (Chico the Conquistador) bears the familiar name Felipe Cayetano López, but he is one of Chico’s ancestors. In Spain in 1517, he accidentally sinks a ship belonging to the powerful Miguel Suárez. To escape the shipowner’s wrath, Felipe boards a vessel bound for the New World. The crossing lands him a job he could hardly have foreseen: he becomes the cook of conquistador Hernán Cortés.
Moreno Burattini takes a kitchen-eye view of the Spanish conquest. While Cortés has plans of his own, Felipe does his best to get by in America, and his attempts to get out of trouble only land him in more. The first reversal sets the tone: a man who went to sea to escape an angry shipowner finds himself on an expedition destined for the history books.
Francesco Gamba draws out the comedy in the gap between the grandeur of the expedition and its cook’s everyday concerns. The mishaps on land and at sea are also a joke about Chico’s family tree. Centuries before his descendant meets Zagor, Felipe already shows the family knack for landing in the middle of an adventure he never meant to have.
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