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Jack Staff (Comic Book)
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Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })Jack Staff is writer-artist Paul Grist's attempt to produce an authentically British superhero comic that works.John Smith, salt-of-the-Earth builder and decorator of Castletown, Yorkshire, is really Jack Staff, Britain's greatest hero. Since World War II, he's been defeating threats to the people of the islands, mostly by hitting them with a stick until they give up.Much of the popularity of the series comes, however, from the range of weirdos surrounding Jack, including BECKY BURDOCK, VAMPIRE REPORTER!, the government Weird Shit Investigator Agency known only as Q, old-fashioned copper Inspector Maveryk, and robot guardian Tom-Tom the Robot Man. To reflect this, Grist eventually renamed the book The Weird World Of Jack Staff. | |
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Bilingual Backfire: The unfortunate end to the Brain Head / Capitan Krieg team-up. | |
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Captain Ersatz | |
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Captain Ersatz/Expy: After the Spider crisis, Grist turned to these instead of directly using older characters. Some of them are straightforward Ersatzes, others are playful combinations or remixes of multiple characters, both British and American. Jack himself supposedly began as a pitch for a Marvel Union Jack series. Although aside from Wearing A Flag On His Chest and fighting one vampire, little of that remains. Straight examples: General Tubbs is General Jumbo, Charles Raven is Janus Stark, Ben Kulmer is the Steel Claw (created by Ken Bulmer). Lord Nod is Dream from Sandman. The Freedom Fighters are a new take on The Invaders - Sgt Stripes is Captain America, Blazing Glory the original Human Torch. The Druid is a crustier Doctor Strange. And Detective Inspector Maveryk likes to think he's the kind of old-fashioned copper played by John Thaw.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_3'); }) | |
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Wearing a Flag on Your Head | |
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Jack himself supposedly began as a pitch for a Marvel Union Jack series. Although aside from Wearing A Flag On His Chest and fighting one vampire, little of that remains. | |
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All Germans Are Nazis | |
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All Germans Are Nazis: Played with in an interesting way with Kapitan Krieg, who's first presented as simply seeing himself as the German equivalent of a Golden Age superhero just like Jack and Sgt Stripes, in the late 30s. So of course he fights for his country when the war breaks out, because he's a Captain Patriotic too. He finds out the hard way things aren't so simple. | |
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Belligerent Sexual Tension | |
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Belligerent Sexual Tension: Jack and Becky, right from the beginning. | |
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Big Bad Friend | |
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Big Bad Friend: Sergeant Stripes is actually the Castletown Vampire. | |
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Bandaged Face: "Mr Green" | |
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