Black Jack Spade
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| - | [[Category:Fictional Characters]]Badass black commando, Vietnam vet, a comic-book hero of unknown {{Comics}}origin. His shaved head, dark sunglasses, black muscle shirt and cammo pants marked him as a dude not to be fucked with. No one knows who created him, but he appeared in comic strips as diverse as [[Choco]], [[Balloonjaw]] one-offs and in the [[Lil' AA]] as the ''Lil' Nigga''. | + | [[Category:Fictional Characters]]Black Jack Spade is a fictional character who first appeared in [[The Auto-Colonial Bee]] on May 1, 1967 in an issue dedicated to the subject of black chefs in Vietnam. A full-page full-color cartoon, we see Spade first as a mild-mannered waiter, which quickly becomes obvious is merely a disguise: Spade is investigating traitorous officers who discuss their plans as though Spade were too dumb too understand them. Patronising and racist, the officers meet their come-uppance when Spade does what he does best, i.e. let loose generous cans of whoop-ass. The strip is noteworthy in that it is the first comic to depict someone using a crouton as a weapon, which has since found a noble lineage, most notably in the work of Frank Miller. |
| - | He has appeared in a series of comic books and in the 1995 film ''Gutterball'', featuring the legendary [[Toots Sweet]]. | + | After this one-off appearance, the character appeared in many other [[AA]]-related comic strips. He helped [[Choco]] defeat a [[counterfeiting gang|counterfeiters]] trying to pass of shoddy Taiwanese chocolate bars as pieces of Choco himself. He once had a rivalry with [[Balloonjaw]], before the two {{Comics}}paired up to dismantle a mafia selling dog meat to beleaguered school districts needing to reduce the cost of their meatloaf. As the ''Lil' Nigga'', he made a few visits to the gang in the [[Lil' AA]]. Perhaps the height of his popularity was reached in 1995 upon the release of the film ''The Beef'', which featured legendary jazzman [[Toots Sweet]] as Spade's estranged uncle. In the film, Spade takes unscrupulous British businessmen selling mad cow-ridden cattle to Third World Countries. In one scene, he is about to kill a man by drowning him in a bowl of gumbo, thinks better of it and merely snaps his opponent's neck, thus leaving himself time for a quick snack before pursuing his enemies. |
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| + | In early appearances, Spade was a badass commando working directly underneath President Johnson, the latter usually depicted as a man obsessed with perfecting his [[BBQ]] abilities or straining with digestive troubles stemming from a Tex-Mex addiction to rival the habits of Rabelais' Pantagruel. As time went on he became a freelance operator, a Vietnam vet, haunted by the loss of his platoon to poisoned k-rations. His shaved head, dark sunglasses, black muscle shirt and cammo pants marked him as a dude not to be fucked with. No one knows who created him, but many authors and artists have added to his adventures. | ||
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Black Jack Spade is a fictional character who first appeared in The Auto-Colonial Bee on May 1, 1967 in an issue dedicated to the subject of black chefs in Vietnam. A full-page full-color cartoon, we see Spade first as a mild-mannered waiter, which quickly becomes obvious is merely a disguise: Spade is investigating traitorous officers who discuss their plans as though Spade were too dumb too understand them. Patronising and racist, the officers meet their come-uppance when Spade does what he does best, i.e. let loose generous cans of whoop-ass. The strip is noteworthy in that it is the first comic to depict someone using a crouton as a weapon, which has since found a noble lineage, most notably in the work of Frank Miller.
After this one-off appearance, the character appeared in many other AA-related comic strips. He helped Choco defeat a counterfeiters trying to pass of shoddy Taiwanese chocolate bars as pieces of Choco himself. He once had a rivalry with Balloonjaw, before the two|
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In early appearances, Spade was a badass commando working directly underneath President Johnson, the latter usually depicted as a man obsessed with perfecting his BBQ abilities or straining with digestive troubles stemming from a Tex-Mex addiction to rival the habits of Rabelais' Pantagruel. As time went on he became a freelance operator, a Vietnam vet, haunted by the loss of his platoon to poisoned k-rations. His shaved head, dark sunglasses, black muscle shirt and cammo pants marked him as a dude not to be fucked with. No one knows who created him, but many authors and artists have added to his adventures.
