The Hell of a Midnight Road
and The Ghosts of Storms (2015)
Authors: John Carpenter / Eric Powell | Illustrator: Brian Churilla | Page Count: 128
It picks up the story mere minutes after the 1986 film ends. If you remember, Jack and his more competent pals kicked some ass and shook the Pillars of Heaven from somewhere underneath San Francisco's Chinatown. Jack may have left Chinatown behind, but the denizens that gather there aren't finished with him yet.
Punctuating the elevated weirdness are a number of eye-opening flashbacks to the worldly truck driver's colourful and sugary past. Even in his own flashbacks he's clueless to the supernatural reality that seems to be happening all around him and, bizarrely, he wears the same combination of clothes most of the time. The latter isn't an oversight or laziness, it's a running joke. Comedy is a big part of the book and it doesn't disappoint. I laughed more than I expected to.
Volume 1 collects together Big Trouble in Little China issues 1-4. Each issue begins with a quotable Jack Burton saying that's worth the asking price alone.
Individual covers. Click for FULL size.
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