Review: Big Trouble in Little China Vol. 2: The Return of Lo Pan & How Jack Burton Became King of the Lords of Death (Big Trouble in Little China) by Eric Powell (Writer), Brian Churilla (Illustrator) & John Carpenter (Creator)

Title: Big Trouble in Little China Vol. 2: The Return of Lo Pan & How Jack Burton Became King of the Lords of Death

Series: Big Trouble in Little China

Author: Eric Powell (Writer), Brian Churilla (Illustrator) & John Carpenter

Genre: Adult, Fantasy, Horror, Humor, Graphic Novel

Publication Date:  February 9th, 2016 by BOOM! Studios 

Format: Digital Library

Source: Library

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The revival of John Carpenter's hapless hero, Jack Burton, continues!

Lo Pan has been resurrected! To say he is in a bad mood would be putting it lightly. He has just come from the Hell of Those Killed by Idiots, the lowest rung of the ladder when it comes to honorable Hells, and for a sorcerer warlord like Lo Pan, it’s the worst humiliation imaginable! Worse than that, the body of flesh and blood that he waited thousands of years for has been taken from him and he once again is a lost spirit unable to partake in earthly pleasures. Jack Burton must pay!

Collecting issues from the critically acclaimed series, director John Carpenter returns with writer Eric Powell (The Goon) and artist Brian Churilla (Hellbreak) in the continuing adventures of Jack Burton! 

I say this volume was much better than the Vol. 1, it is 3.9 stars for me so 4 stars I really liked and enjoyed this one better. I am really started to enjoy Big Trouble in Little China graphic novels there are short but they are so much fun to read. In Vol. 2 starts off exactly where Vol. 1 left off out where Jack and his pals the sorcerer Egg and Pete the demon go and try to save Wang from another ancient evil sorcerer Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, who wants to get revenge from his master Lo Pan death. So Kareem tells Jack to get him three jars from the Black Road at the house of the seven-faced window gate in these jars are the souls of Lo Pan and Kareem brothers in arms he says he wants these jars so he can put his brother's souls to rest in peace. But Egg and Jack know there is something more to it but they have no other choice but to agree to get these jars for Kareem if he doesn't get these jars Kareem will kill Wang and take his soul forever. Now Jack, Egg, and Pete go out and try to find the Black Road to find the three jars and when they do find the black road thanks to Egg and that's when hilarity ensues when they try to find the house of the seven-faced window gate where the three jars are at. And here is where I am going to stop at without spoiling anymore but I absolutely love the quirky and fun artwork it is so much fun seeing the details of the artwork. The plotline and concept are also very hilarious as well there are some ridiculous things that happened in this graphic novel that I chuckle all through this volume, and the writing style flows really well and I understood much better on what was happening in this volume too. The characters are absolutely amazing and ridiculously hilarious too. Ohh boy how much I miss seeing these characters I need to find Big Trouble in Little China DVD because I love that movie so much and I miss everything about it! All and all I really love and enjoy Volume 2. better and I can't wait to continue reading the next volume soon! 

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Eric Powell (Writer)

Eric Powell has contributed work on such comics titles as Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, Hellboy: Weird Tales, Star Wars Tales, The Incredible Hulk, Black Panther, The Avengers, The Hood, MAD Magazine, Devil Dinosaur, Swamp Thing, the Avengers, She-Hulk, the Simpsons, Arkham Asylum: Living Hell and Action Comics.

Although eking out a meager living in the comics field since 1995, Eric didn't find true success until he launched his critically acclaimed dark comedy series The Goon. The Goon was subsequently picked up by Dark Horse Comics and boasts a diehard cult following.

John Carpenter (Creator)

John Howard Carpenter (born January 16, 1948) is an American film director, screenwriter, producer, editor, and composer. Although Carpenter has worked in numerous film genres, he is most commonly associated with horror and science fiction films from the 1970s and 1980s.

Numerous films in Carpenter's career were critical and commercial failures, with the notable exceptions of Halloween (1978) and Escape from New York (1981). However, many of Carpenter's films from the 1970s and the 1980s, such as Dark Star (1974), Assault on Precinct 13 (1976), The Fog (1980), The Thing (1982), Starman (1984), Big Trouble in Little China (1986) and They Live (1988) have since become cult classics, and Carpenter has been acknowledged as an influential filmmaker.