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Adventures of Jack Burton
"Old Man Jack" Part 5
Big Trouble in Little China: Old Man Jack #5
BOOM! Studios
Written by John Carpenter & Anthony Burch
Illustrated by Jorge Corona
Colored by Gabriel Cassata
Lettered by Ed Dukeshire
Cover by Rahzzah
January 2018 |
Jack, Lo Pan, and Wang face off against the
Three Storms.
Story Summary
As
Jack, Lo Pan, and Wang drive across the country towards
Chinatown, Wang tells them he still intends to kill them both if
they are lying about knowing how to get to the Throne of Skulls
to face Ching Dai. Neither Jack nor Lo Pan know exactly how to
gain access, but they make up a story about needing the Three
Storms. Of course, now they need to find the Three Storms.
Wang reveals that Pete, now called Yaoguai,
has stowed away on the back of the Pork-Chop Express, having
become oathbound to stay at Wang's side at some point in the
past. Yaoguai is a good tracker and with an article belonging to
Rain in Lo Pan's possession, the beast is able to track the
Three Storms to a raging tornado. Jack drives into it and they
find the Three Storms inside, learning that the Storms do, in
fact, work for Ching Dai now. But the Storms want revenge
against them for their deaths (in
Big Trouble in
Little China) and battle ensues.
Wang and Lo Pan destroy Rain and Lightning,
but Jack has less luck with Thunder and Thunder grows to an
enormous size and swallows the trio, then pukes them out at
their destination, the Throne of Skulls.
Continued in
"Old Man Jack" Part 6.
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
Wang Chi
Ching Dai (mentioned only)
The Three Storms (Thunder, Rain, Lightning)
Yaoguai (Pete)
Miao Yin
(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?
On the Rahzzah cover of this issue, Jack is
eating from a can of beans labeled with the words "consume" and
"obey", a tongue-in-cheek reference by the artist to John
Carpenter's 1988 cult classic film They Live. (And, in
"Old Man Jack" Part 6,
Jack mentions a cousin George who may be the character played by
Roddy Piper in that film!).
Jack is sitting on the remains of the
Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco.

Page 5 reveals that the Hell-Beast Jack calls Pete is now
oathbound to never leave Wang's side. Wang calls the beast
Yaoguai.
On page 7, Lo Pan claims to have known Sun Tzu.
Sun Tzu (544-496 BC) was a Chinese general and brilliant
military strategist, known for writing
The Art of War, still studied today in military
academies.
On page 12, the Three Storms inform
Lo Pan that he is no longer their master, they are now
indentured to Ching Dai. They remark that Lo Pan died like a
fool and abandoned them, never even trying to find them in the
underworld. However, Lo Pan and the Three Storms were briefly
reunited in
"Bad News Browns";
that story may now never have happened due to the reset of the
timeline in "Second Beginning".
Lightning and Rain seem to mock Thunder for the way he died. In
Big Trouble in
Little China, Thunder became so angry at his foes
during the final battle that his body swelled up to incredible
girth and he exploded.
On page 16, Jack guesses that Thunder is sort of the "younger
brother" of the Three Storms who gets purple nurpled regularly
and Thunder admits that is kind of true. A purple nurple is a
school yard prank where one grabs another person's nipple
between their fingers and twists roughly, causing pain.
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