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Adventures of Jack Burton
"Old Man Jack" Part 4
Big Trouble in Little China: Old Man Jack #4
BOOM! Studios
Written by John Carpenter & Anthony Burch
Illustrated by Jorge Corona
Colored by Gabriel Cassata
Lettered by Ed Dukeshire
Cover by Stéphane Roux
December 2017 |
Jack is confronted by the Beast.
Story Summary
Jack and Lo Pan are captured by Jack's old
friend, the Hell-beast he calls Pete. Pete takes them to the
camp of the Children of the Beast. There they are placed in a
fighting arena where they are introduced to the Beast...who
turns out to be the resurrected Wang Chi. The embittered Wang
wants to kill both Jack and Lo Pan for their past misdeeds and a
three-way fight ensues.
Wang is finally somewhat mollified when
Jack admits to what he did and explains that he is now on a
mission to get Lo Pan to Chinatown so he can defeat Ching Dai.
Wang reluctantly agrees to let them continue on their mission,
joining them.
Continued in
"Old Man Jack" Part 5.
Notes from the Jack Burton chronology
This story takes place in the year 2020.
Characters appearing or mentioned in this issue
Jack Burton
David Lo Pan
Pete
Children of the Beast
The Beast (revealed as Wang Chi)
Ching Dai (mentioned only)
Miao Yin
(mentioned only, deceased)
Winona Chi
(mentioned only, deceased)
Uncle Chu (mentioned only, deceased)
Didja Know?
Big Trouble in Little China: Old Man
Jack is a 12-issue limited series published by IDW in
2017-2018.
Didja Notice?
In this issue, Lo Pan now refers to the previously-named Ocean
of Fire and, then, Plain of Fire, as the River of Fire.
Jack still remembers his former buddy, the Hell-beast Pete,
despite the altered timeline that resulted from
"Second Beginning". Does Jack
still have his memories of the previous timeline? Or did he just
get to know the Hell-beast in a similar story in the new
timeline?
This issue reveals that the resurrected Wang Chi is the person
called the Beast in the Hellpocalypse.
On page 10, Jack remarks to the vengeful Wang, "Hey, you say
potato, I say tomato--" Jack is misphrasing part of a verse from
the 1937 Gershwin song "Let's Call the Whole Thing Off".
On page 11, Jack accuses Wang of being crazier than a Tempe
javelina.
Tempe is a
city in Arizona. Javelinas are wild pigs that roam portions of
South, Central, and North America.
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