Hacha Historieta Argentina #5

In the silent heart of Buenos Aires, the Obelisco—awake and alone—walks through a city emptied of life, its streets echoing with absence. As a sentient monument, it wonders where its people have gone, its voice a quiet lament in a world that no longer remembers its own name.

In an alternate 1950 Buenos Aires, Juan Manuel de Rosas—immortal and still in power—rules from his gilded seat of authority, his once-dead body sustained by ancient Druid magic. With Urquiza and Gerardo caught in the web of his enduring regime, the city breathes under the shadow of a past that refuses to end.

Detective Anselmo Guernica takes on a case unlike any other when a blind elderly man hires him to uncover the true cause of his blindness—beyond medicine. As Guernica navigates a city teeming with corruption and supernatural forces, he encounters the enigmatic Mandinga and is led to a meeting with God, who offers a revelation that redefines sight and sin. When Guernica awakens six months later, he finds the old man’s house empty, a single note left behind: Nos fuimos a Suiza, and the news confirms the man is dead.

In a biting satire from 1997, a television host interviews a confessed serial killer baker and a man claiming to be the last American king, all while Buenos Aires undergoes a surreal transformation outside the studio. As Señor Dario commits murder live on air and the police intervene, the indigenous resurgence led by Tupac Amaru unfolds in parallel—both events swallowed by the same news cycle, blurring spectacle and revolution into a single, unsettling headline.

In the shadow of a military regime that has ruled Argentina since Duhalde’s fall, Ernesto León Chogollán leads a desperate flight across the Puente La Plata with his comrades Carmen and Pájaro, pursued by the PFA. As the bridge is sealed and hope dwindles, a lone operative holds the line while Ernesto makes a final choice to surrender—knowing the cost. Carmen, left with his last letter, must carry forward a promise to raise their child not in silence, but in defiance.

In "Viaje en Bondi," a young man boarding a Buenos Aires bus after a fight with his girlfriend stumbles into a surreal encounter with a grotesque vendor offering El Libro del Conocimiento Total—knowledge of the universe, but in a language older than words. Distracted by a beep from his phone, he agrees to the price without realizing what he’s given up. When police arrest the vendor and take him as a witness, the young man steps off the bus with nothing left but an empty shell. The vendor smiles, and the story ends.