![]() ![]() The answers are less interesting than the questions themselves. Who the hell are these people? Where is Planet 10? What’s an oscillating overthruster? Why is there a watermelon there? I’ll tell you later. Watching this singular film felt like picking up the 103rd issue of a monthly magazine, or diving into Episode V of Star Wars. We were blessed with the greatest comic book movie, as well as the greatest comic book universe never based on an actual comic book: The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the Eighth Dimension. The appeal of connected characters eluded mainstream entertainment, and it would take decades of fan pleading before Freddy went against Jason and Predators scrapped with Aliens. Walt Disney’s main player in the superhero racket was the abysmal Condorman, although the desperate found ways to enjoy its particular delights.Ĭomic book geeks had to look elsewhere if they wanted to roam fully-formed realms of cinematic adventure. Don’t push it.įorty years earlier, on the Marvel front (or Timely, the brand that preceded Marvel Comics), a nearly unrecognizable Captain America puttered about in a serial, while the first three movies based on their characters ( Howard the Duck, Red Sonja, and The Punisher) were still a few years away. Those that strained their imagination to their breaking points could conceive that the Earth that Kal-El fled to might also be the same residence of Wes Craven’s Swamp Thing. The closest thing we had to an MCU or any comic book cinematic universe was the tangential connection between Supergirl and the first three Superman films. The walls around you need not be impenetrable escape exists in your television as easily as our hero penetrates the solid matter of a mountain.ġ984. It is available for pre-order on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and at your local comic shop and bookstore.Those yearning for a little streaming joy, I present to you The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the Eighth Dimension, a blissfully hopeful experience readily available on Amazon Prime Video. Or is her true target Buckaroo Banzai? As the apocalyptic threats continue to mount, only Buckaroo and his Hong Kong Cavaliers stand in the way of global destruction-or in the words of one of the movie’s iconic lines: “Laugh-a while you can, monkey boy!”īuckaroo Banzai Against the World Crime League is a 544-page hardcover prose novel and will retail for $29.99. It will be available everywhere books are sold August 10, 2021. Still mourning the losses of his beloved Penny Priddy and his surrogate father Professor Hikita, Buckaroo Banzai must also contend with the constant threat of attack from his immortal nemesis Hanoi Xan, ruthless leader of the World Crime League. To make matters worse, Planet 10 warrior queen John Emdall has sent her Lectroid legions against Earth with a brutal ultimatum. Relating the further adventures of doctor/adventurer/rock star Banzai, the book picks up where the movie left off: Well, we say it’s written by Rauch, but the credits say it’s “as told by” the Reno Kid. But according to Rauch, the story of Buckaroo Banzai was always supposed to be continued in a series of prose novels.Īnd now, finally, all these years later, there is an official official sequel: Buckaroo Banzai Against the World Crime League, et al: A Compendium of Evils is a 544-page novel written by Rauch coming in August from Dark Horse. The closest it came was a series of comics from tiny publisher Moonstone, also written by creator E.M. In the 37 years since its release, there has been plenty of sporadic talk about a sequel, but no movie or TV show - despite Hollywood’s obsession with repurposing every scrap of IP, Buckaroo Banzai remains just too weird and off-kilter to risk millions of dollars on. ![]()
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