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Buckaroo Banzai Against the World Crime League, Et Al: A Compendium of Evils Hardcover – November 16, 2021

by E.M. Rauch (Author), Julian Totino Tedesco (Cover Art)

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A world-class hero confronts ancient "supernatural" evils in an adventure that spans entire planets and defies everyday notions of reality!

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. 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.

The long-awaited sequel to The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension is finally here after more than 35 years! As told by the Reno Kid to Buckaroo Banzai chronicler E.M. Rauch, this tale follows everyone's favorite scientist-surgeon-entertainer-daredevil as he sets off on a brand-new hair-raising adventure!

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November 16, 2021
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6.2 x 1.5 x 9.4 inches
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150672213X
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Earl Mac Rauch is an American novelist and screenwriter. Rauch is best known for writing the screenplays for A Stranger Is Watching, New York, New York, and The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Dark Horse Books (November 16, 2021)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 624 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 150672213X
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1506722139
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.25 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6.2 x 1.5 x 9.4 inches

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Collier Hageman

Unlike the movie.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on November 20, 2022

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A long, rambling tale, overburdened by myriad nonsensical details and subplots that don't do anything to further the story. Amusing at times, but this is NOT the light-hearted, free-wheeling kind of adventure story that is the original movie.

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Christopher Tyler

Arrived fast and in excellent condition

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on August 12, 2022

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The book is great! Not just the wonderfully wacky continued adventures of Dr. Banzai and his Hong Kong Cavaliers contained within but the book as a product itself was in wonderful condition and I received it faster than expected. Awesome!

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A book I love to hate

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on October 7, 2022

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Where do I begin?

Firstly, the title reflects the arrogance of the author. He wants to include many chapters of the Lectroids (more than Hanoi Xan!), but is stuck with the pre-notion the title must contain the words "World Crime League", because that's what Buckaroo Banzai fans like myself would expect. So, to soften the Lectroid impact, Rauch decides to include the words "et al" at the end of the title. It clues you in to the direction he was taking.

This book seemed like it was written over a period of 10 years and rushed to completion, because, well, lots of us have plenty of time to write over Covid. The chapters are uneven and vary in tone. The story was too 'clever' in its attempts to write from the first person point-of-view from two different sources. Trying to personify Reno in 1st person was an attempt to promote the book as a 'chronicle' from the Banzai Institute, which is absurd given there are multiple chapters that cannot be realized from the Institute's point-of-view. Perhaps "clever" isn't the right word -- perhaps it's that E.M. Rauch was stuck in a corner when writing the book, and this was his way out.

In addition, there are multiple instances of strange, human anatomical features that have no business belonging in a Buckaroo Banzai book. The movie never went porno, and thus it remains endearing. His writing style makes Buckaroo less immortal than he was trying to make him to be.

The one redeeming quality of the book is that it injects some intelligence in Buckaroo, and Hanoi Xan is certainly is a mysterious figure we sort of would want to expect. Why he has an alter ego is stupid, however. There's no way he can disguise himself as an everyday citizen, so he might as well let his minions do that sort of work. The techno babble works okay with Buckaroo and one or two others, but it's just garbage once it spills into the dialogue of other characters. And, don't get me started on Chapter 18, or whatever that chapter was regarding the potluck dinner. There was no need to waste my time write such character-developing nonsense.

Finally, the ending was not an ending. You are expected to pick up the next book to continue the story. Ha! Don't worry about writing another Banzai story, Rauch -- I won't be reading it.

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ann cottrell

Does not disappoint!

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on March 13, 2022

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This long-awaited sequel to the original Buckaroo Banzai does not disappoint. Earl Mac Rauch’s imagination, humor and unique style are well evident throughout. It is long but the time spent reading it is time well spent. It is definitely worth the wait!

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Impossibly Dense With Little Plot

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on November 21, 2021

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I so wanted to love this book. Earl Mac Rauch is a brilliant writer. But sadly, he didn't write this book for Buckaroo Banzai fans. I am worried that he either wrote this for the money or he wrote it as something self indulgent.

There are pages and pages of long convoluted paragraphs that read as though a thesaurus were giving the writing cues. Some of the sentence structure can be at times remarkably clever. Earl Mac Rauch is definitely a gifted wordsmith. But there is nothing the implies a plot.

Literally, I kept waiting for some plot to start so I could get into the story. I was waiting for an epic adventure. Something that told would grab me and felt like the second moving I had been waiting for over 30 years. Instead, pages and pages, and pages of backstory and description with seemingly no payoff.

I am about to give up on finishing the book. I love reading, but this book is not holding my attention. It needs to be more "pulp" and less clever wordplay with seemingly no plot. Where the original novelization of the first movie -- felt like we were getting a good dose of story plus some additional knowledge of the world the characters inhabited.

Way back when -- Ernest Kline wrote a fan fiction screenplay of Buckaroo Banzai Against the World Crime League -- it felt more like a continuation of the original movie than this does.

Earl is a gifted writer. I really wanted to LOVE this book. But it isn't what I wanted or expected. Earl did something else. The books is deliberately weird, and deliberately meanders. I wanted to see a character driven story. I wanted the Hong Kong Caveliers to have a great adventure full of wackiness and fun. We got wackiness, but it was certainly not fun.

Earl, if you read this. I am sorry. I wanted to love your book. You are brilliant. But this isn't the format the fans of the movie wanted. I read the novelization. I read the original comic books. I read the additional comic book stories. This book probably needed to be distilled to down into a more concise story. Epilogs are great for adding in all the additional material you generated. This is not the review I wanted to write. Dude, take another shot at it. Please. I know you've got a good story in there. I know there is something clever that comes from all the backstory. You can do this. I believe in you.

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CM57

Awesome

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on January 9, 2022

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If you're interested in the movie you will love it

Brian Oberquell

Well, I managed to finish reading it...but I'm somewhat masochistic.

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on May 31, 2022

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I really wanted to like this book, but either there was no editor involved or the editor was under the influence of some serious therapeutics. Between the excessive semi-to-fully incoherent ramblings of various characters and the excessive use of the "ph"-word (phawk this, phawk that, etc. - seriously, we all know what word you mean, just phawking USE IT ALREADY), the book was far longer than it needed to be, with a completely unsatisfying conclusion which seems to exist solely as a jumping-off point for a sequel...which I will not be buying.

Vanessa Scott

TOUGH to read

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on December 16, 2021

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I am a huge fan of the movie, haven't consumed any of the other books and was REALLY looking forward to this book. The writing style is hard to follow. I have stepped away from the book (after chapter 1), taking a break and will try again. You have to REALLY concentrate to follow the writing

David McGillivra

It's a novel not a comic

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on November 19, 2021

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Bought this thinking it was a comic/graphic novel cause it's put out by Dark Horse. It's not, it's a novel. Heads up. Will still read but disappointed.

FABIO G. OLIVEIRA

THE HERO IS BACK! A GREAT SCI-FI NOVEL!

Reviewed in Brazil 🇧🇷 on November 26, 2021

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I loved it!
Another fun adventure with the greatest and rather unusual hero.
I hope Buckaroo will be back to the big screen soon!

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