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Adventures of Jack Burton
"A Little Trouble in Dixieland"
Big Trouble in Little China #7 (BOOM! Studios)
Story by John Carpenter and Eric Powell
Writer: Eric Powell
Artist: Brian Churilla
Colorist: Lisa Moore
Letterer: Ed Dukeshire
Cover B: Alexis Ziritt
December 2014 |
Egg and Miao Yin on the Midnight Road and
Jack and Wang in Nashville each come up against old foes.
Story Summary
On the Midnight Road,
Egg and Miao Yin are confronted and taken down by a cloaked,
staff-wielding figure who brings them before the Seven-Faced
Widow.
Jack and Wang arrive in Nashville and are
almost immediately set upon by the Lords of Death, seeking Lo
Pan's bounty on them. A brawl is interrupted by the local
police, who force the leaders of the two sides, Jack and Black
Knife, to fight to the death in a hog pit. In a case of complete
dumb luck, Jack's foe is impaled through the head by the broken
handle of a shit shovel. Leaderless, the Lords of Death now
declare Jack to be their new leader. Jack decides to give Lo Pan
a little payback.
CONTINTUED IN BIG TROUBLE IN LITTLE
CHINA #8
Characters appearing or mentioned in this issue
Egg Shen
Miao Yin
minion of the
Seven-Faced Widow (unnamed)
Seven-Faced Widow
Lo Pan (mentioned only)
Little Sue
Bert
Lords of Death
Black Knife (dies in this issue)
Didja Know?
The issues of this series did not have individual titles. I
chose the title "A
Little Trouble in Dixieland" as a play on the title of
Big Trouble in Little China
and the fact that Jack and Wang are in the southern states in
this issue.
Didja Notice?
The fable Egg tells Miao Yin at the beginning of this issue is a
foreshadowing of what will happen to Jack in "The
Legendary San Francisco Mystic Kung Fu Showdown and Knife
Fight".
Over his CB radio, Jack tells anybody listening he's heading to
Dixieland. Dixieland (more commonly just "Dixie") is a
historical nickname for the southeast quadrant of the United
States. Jack tells Wang they'll go to
Nashville
and hit a few honky tonks. A honky-tonk is a bar that largely
features live country music as entertainment.
On page 9, a couple of Trans Ams are seen driven by the Lords
of Death. The street gang members were seen in a Trans Am in
Big Trouble in Little China
as well.
When Jack gets punched in the face by one of the Lords of Death
on page 10, notice that instead of seeing the cliché cartoony
little "stars and birds" around his head, he sees little stars
and Pork-Chop Expresses!
On page 14, one of the grungy cafe patrons remarks that Jack has
"a might fashionable hairdo". He is referring to the infamous
mullet, hair cut short to the front and sides and long in the
back; as one of Jack's allies says a bit later in the issue,
"...conveys business in the front, party in the back."
The leader of the Lords of Death is revealed to be a huge man
called Black Knife.
On page 20, one of the Lords of Death somehow pulls out a Blood
Sabbath album cover from somewhere.
Blood Sabbath is probably a veiled reference to the English
heavy metal band Black Sabbath.
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