Chapters 8 & 9

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I had a lot less free time at the lake than I had expected I wanted to get the Buggy the clown arc finished but obviously that didn't happen so I'm starting it now with chapter 8.

Chapter 8: Nami Enters

This issue begins with Zoro discovering that Luffy has no idea how to navigate on the sea and both of them nearly pass out from the thought of hunger. Luffy spots a bird and decides to eat it. So he jumps up to it and is carried away. While trying to catch Luffy Zoro saves a band of three drowning pirates. The three pirates tell Zoro the story of how they were robbed by a woman who they found dying at sea and take him to land so that he can find Luffy. An unknown voice orders The bird and Luffy shot out of the sky as a woman is chased through the streets by pirates. Luffy is shot out of the sky and lands on the pirates saving the woman. The pirates get up the woman runs of claiming that her 'boss' save her and Luffy is forced to fight the pirates. After the pirates are all down for the count the woman reappears saying her name is Nami and that she is a thief who only steals from pirates. I found this issue to be an absolute bore if it wasn't necessary to explain how Nami and buggy got involved in this whole thing I would advise against reading it. The only good part of this issue was the three pirates reaction to being saved by Roronoa Zoro.    

Chapter 9: Evil Woman

This Chapter starts with Nami offering to work with Luffy in order to take treasure from Buggy to which Luffy casually replies "No way! I'm not interested in teaming up with you". The scene then shifts to the Buggy the Clown pirate crew where captain Buggy is getting incredibly irritated at the incompetents of his crew. After hearing that they were  unable to capture the thief Nami  Buggy executes a member of his crew. Nami explains to Luffy just how powerful and dangerous Buggy is and Luffy decides that the best way to beat Buggy is for Nami to join Luffy's crew. Nami declines showing her hatred of pirates. Then seeing an opportunity to profit she pretends to join Luffy only to turn him over to Buggy. Buggy puts Luffy in a cage and Zoro arrives on the island looking for Luffy. This issue was definitely better than the last one but it still lacked action and humor so although it did well to set up the arc, overall I didn't enjoy it. That being said it is important in setting up one of my  favorite moments in One Piece.