80s cult hero Buckaroo Banzai, main character of the transcendantly strange The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension, will be back next March in a new two-issue prequel comic from Moonstone Books written by the original screenwriters, Earl Mac Rauch and the vastly underrated W.D. Richter.

Full press release after the jump:

Buckaroo Banzai: The Prequel #1 (of 2)
Story: Earl Mac Rauch
Art: Chew Chan
Colors: Ken Wolak
Covers: David Palumbo, Matt Haley
32pgs, color, $3.99

A bold, titillating mix of particle physics, rock n roll, super-sonic speed, beautiful women, and villains beyond redemption.

MORE BANZAI adventures by the original creators!

Screenwriter Earl Mac Rauch and Director WD Richter return to their creation with a brand new story!

“Of Hunan Bondage” is the wild epic tale that sets up the film!

An adventure so secret, so wild, so hair raising, that it couldn’t legally be told before now!

Buckaroo fins himself in dire straights: his rock and roll band on the road, no money, his voice lost, a doppelganger, the overthruster invention without inspiration?

We also flashback on the origins of Banzai’s musical career, and the Hong Kong Cavaliers, and the oft rumored about but never talked about in above hushed tones: the final fate of the Illinois Mongoose!

All that PLUS the interweaving plots of the Chinese Secret Yak Police, and what happened to Peggy Priddy — and the insidious Hanoi Xan!

Art by Hollywood storyboard artist (Superman Returns) Chew Chan, and Cover by David Palumbo!

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