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spenkevich's review
4.0
Everybody relax, Jack is here.
Welcome to the continuing adventures of Jack Burton and the Pork Chop Express! Co-written by John Carpenter himself, this is a fun and goofy “sequel” series that is…well, exactly what you expect. Which is a good thing. Set mere moments after the film ends, here are more zany adventures full of magic, demons, and Jack Burton bumbling his way through it all and firing off great one-liners. Is it corny? Absolutely, but that is half the charm. But does it hold up? Well, honestly, yes. Besides that, it's all in the reflexes.
‘Now, look, I know you boys are just doing your job, being hell-tormented hell-spawned demons, but I think you got the wrong guy here. I just drive a truck.’
One awesome benefit of working in a library is seeing all the cool books people read. When this came through I knew I had to give it a read as the film was a favorite of mine when I was a kid and still makes me laugh. This is a fun return to the characters, bringing all the favorites back, even Lo Pan, and giving Miao Yin more of an actual character here. Jack is still Jack, which is what everyone wants, and he does become a bit more the focus (the gag of the film is that he is actually just the side-kick, though I suppose this does center the white character even when he isn’t the real hero). This volume collects 12 issues of the Big Trouble in Little China comics (there are more that follow), which amounts to three story arc of wild adventuring and demon fighting. It’s silly, it’s fun, it’s exactly what you think its going to be and delivers.
So fans of the film, definitely give this a go! Its a good time and I think I need to track down the second volume (a third was planned but canceled). If I'm not back by dawn...call the president.
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sugarqpage's review against another edition
5.0
I just love this book. I loved the movie so much as a kid (still do) and Jack Burton is such an iconic character. I feel like this is a perfect continuation of the movie.
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