Official Comics Adaptation
Bill Matlo (writer) and Mark Texeira and Armando Gil (art)
Part One
Marvel Super Special No. 33, 1984
I can't call The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension all that great a science fiction film, nor one of the better films of the 80s. When I first watched it when it came out in the late Summer of 1984, I though it was so ardent in its campiness that it would up being incoherent.
Even today when it comes on TV I can't bring myself to sit down and watch it from the opening credits to the ending, although I will make the effort to view selected segments of the film - such as the immortal scene with Penny Priddy at Artie's Artery ('No matter where you go, there you are') and the march by the cast through the Los Angeles storm drains shown in the closing credits.
The Marvel Super Special that provided a comic-book adaptation of the movie is an easy read, and makes the film's plot coherent, which is no small thing.
I'm going to post the entirety of the comic adaptation as a two-parter; Part One is below.
If there is interest, I'll also post the 'making of' pictorial essay that was included in the Super Special...............?
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