Buckaroo Banzai: Tpb Vol.1: Return of the Screw

by Earl Mac Rauch and W.D. Richter

Written by Buckaroo's creators
Along with his Hong Kong Cavaliers, Banzai must battle more than one surprise arch enemy, each with their own motives, but all acting in concert to bring Banzai to his knees All this sandwiched between a couple of great rock and roll guitar solos, a few surgical procedures, a crazy gun battle on land and air, Buck's one chance for the ultimate revenge, his soul in turmoil, all the chicks digging him, engineering...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1936814714
• ISBN13: 9781936814718
• Release Date: June 2014
• Publisher: Moonstone Press
• Length: 120 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 7.0" x 10.0"
• Age Range: 13 to 16 years
• Grade Range: Grades 8 to 11

Customer Reviews

He's back and of course he's brilliant!!!

In short "BRILLIANT". Way to go WD, Richter, I'm now going blue in the face waiting for the next installment. Look guys, what was the finale to the original movie all those years ago: "Buckaroo Banzai Vs. The World Crime League" right? Well what do you know, this story picks up somewhat like the original movie but features a 'crime league' who would have thought? I don't know why people are saying it re-tells the tail of the movie, what rot. The jet car has been enhanced to fly now, the head quarters has expanded to an amazing installation. Even the Cavalier bus looks larger and includes it's own medical bay. Lizardo somehow survives and sure enough there's a crime league involved. The characters are somewhat older and wiser, some have are in semi-retirement and didn't anyone notice that "Penny Pretty" is missing. (Where left with a twisted dream Buckaroo is having to hint that perhaps the 2nd Penny Pretty is now dead too). My only negative comment would be that it was too short, I wanted more and just as I was getting back into the crazy flow that is a Buckaroo Banzai adventure it ended. Earl PLEASE, you mentioned you now have enough material collected over this 20+years to do 100 TV epiodes. Why not bring them to the comic books, have some great stories all leading up to Buckaroo in his older years, then hire Peter again to make an awesome movie that's set years later??? At the very least if that doesn't suit now you can simply get the cast to do voice overs for a guranteed smash hit computer game or simply an animated movie. As everyone knows the fans are die-hard and faithful to the legend that has become Buckaroo Banzai, let's not let him fade away. He stands for some great values, wisdom and thought provoking ideals and as Earl has said, is not about lifestyle(which he's right is for the most part all anybody cares about anymore). I only hope there are more stories to come and I want to know what happened to Penny Pretty 2. For some reason my favourite part of this story is the crazy spud gun scene where Perfect Tommy accidentally takes out a wall and through the blown away wall we see a poor middle aged chap on the toilet who's now holding up his hands and saying: "God bless America". The spirit of Buckaroo is strong in this one. Don't read this book with expectations, that's half the problem, it's been so long people are expecting it all at once. Well as Buckaroo says: "Time only occurs so everything doesn't happen all at once". In Buckaroo's case that's exactly how this story goes down. Read it and enjoy it, especially the interviews at the end with Earl and the alternate covers. Superb and fans should be rejoicing not boo-hooing it and playing it down so as to negate the chances of more works comming out which will no doubt fulfill your expectations. For those like me who enjoyed it, ROCK ON. Thanks Earl, please don't stop here and I can't recommend the new adventure highly enough. Intriguing, puzzling, filled

Good book for fans of the movie

This TPB is a pretty slick book that brings back a great universe of characters. There are some old, familiar faces and some interesting, new ones, but rest assured that the quirkiness of the film still remains. Fans of the movies will enjoy it, but new-comers might not get it. The writing could have used a bit more revision. The deuce, you say! Yes, though the art is superb, some segues were hard to follow, giving the story an unintended frenetic pace. In addition, I spotted some annoying typographical errors that made the construction of the book seem a little slap-dash. Overall, I love it, and I'm confident that other Blue Blaze Irregulars out there will too.