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Adventures of Jack Burton
"The Hell of No Return"
Big Trouble in Little China #9 (BOOM! Studios)
Story by John Carpenter and Eric Powell
Writer: Eric Powell
Artist: Brian Churilla
Colorist: Lisa Moore
Letterer: Ed Dukeshire
Cover A: Eric Powell
March 2015 |
Jack and Lo Pan attempt to evade eternal
torment in the Hell of No Return.
Story Summary
Jack wakes up in the Hell of No Return alongside
Lo Pan. Lo Pan explains that since they died so close together,
he was able to drag Jack's spirit down into the Hell of No
Return with him. They are soon pursued by flying boars.
In Chinatown, Egg Shen and Wang take Jack's
dead body to a demon called
Tai Sui Laohu, who may be able to reunite Jack's spirit with his
body.
Back in the
Hell of No Return, Jack and Lo Pan have been captured by the
demons and are tied to posts, about to have their bodies prodded
by red hot pokers from a bonfire. A demonic enemy of Lo Pan's
arrives with the desire to make him suffer, but Lo Pan promises
to grant the demon possession of a martyr to do with as he
pleases...Jack! The demon agrees and Lo Pan is freed. With a
last gloat, Lo Pan takes his leave and the demon moves in on
Jack with his sword red hot from the bonfire, saying, "I
always wanted to skin a martyr. Would you like us to start
peeling you from the top or the bottom?"
CONTINTUED IN BIG TROUBLE IN LITTLE
CHINA #10
Characters appearing or mentioned in this issue
Jack Burton
Lo Pan
Miao Yin
Wang Chi
Egg Shen
Chang Sing
Tai Sui Laohu
Unnamed demon
Didja Know?
The issues of this series did not have individual titles. I
chose the title "The
Hell of No Return" based on the name of the Chinese hell Jack
and Lo Pan find themselves in in this issue.
Didja Notice?
Lo Pan tells Jack that they've landed in another of the Chinese
hells, the Hell of No Return.
Lugging along the barrel containing Jack's dead body on page 8,
Egg and Wang enter a Chinatown shop owned by the demon Tai Sui
Laohu and his lackey tells them, "Hey, this ain't Daytona
Beach! You can't bring guys in barrels in here!" I'm not
sure what he means by seemingly comparing
Daytona Beach
and a man in a barrel. Am I missing something?
Upon meeting Egg on page 10,
Tai Sui Laohu tells him, "For the last time, Egg Shen, I'm
not interested in an Orlando time share." Apparently, Egg
has been trying to get the demon to enter a time share agreement
with him on a vacation home in
Orlando,
Florida!
On page 12, notice that the table Egg and Wang place Jack's body
on in
Tai Sui Laohu's abode is a billiards table.
On page 14, Egg Shen mentions the Hell of the Oily Dragon, where
he had assumed Lo Pan would go upon his death.
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