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* [[Mister Big]]: Brain Head or "Hässlicher Kleiner Mann".
* [[Mister Big]]: Brain Head or "Hässlicher Kleiner Mann".
* [[Mugging the Monster]]: The Claw in the jewellers' shop, with a twist (he ends up robbing the place himself and using the dumb robber as a patsy). Played straighter when a hoodie tries to mug the harmless old Mr. Chinard.
* [[Mugging the Monster]]: The Claw in the jewellers' shop, with a twist (he ends up robbing the place himself and using the dumb robber as a patsy). Played straighter when a hoodie tries to mug the harmless old Mr. Chinard.
* [[My Country Right or Wrong]]
* [[My Country, Right or Wrong]]
* [[My Little Panzer]]: General Tubbs's toys.
* [[My Little Panzer]]: General Tubbs's toys.
* [[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero]]: {{spoiler|Jack's dissipation of the Hurricane's power into the environment ends up causing a [[Hate Plague]] with several fatalities and a number of innocent people being turned into murderers.}}
* [[Nice Job Breaking It, Hero]]: {{spoiler|Jack's dissipation of the Hurricane's power into the environment ends up causing a [[Hate Plague]] with several fatalities and a number of innocent people being turned into murderers.}}
* [[No Celebrities Were Harmed]]: Morlan the Mystic is an affectionate caricature of [[Alan Moore]], while horror novelist Iain M Angel is an anagrammatic [[Shout Out]] to [[Neil Gaiman]]. Lord Gilbert Pearce is a much less affectionate hybrid of Jeffrey Archer and Lord Lucan.
* [[No Celebrities Were Harmed]]: Morlan the Mystic is an affectionate caricature of [[Alan Moore]], while horror novelist Iain M Angel is an anagrammatic [[Shout-Out]] to [[Neil Gaiman]]. Lord Gilbert Pearce is a much less affectionate hybrid of Jeffrey Archer and Lord Lucan.
* [[Not-So-Imaginary Friend]]
* [[Not-So-Imaginary Friend]]
* [[Old Fashioned Copper]]: Inspector Maveryk
* [[Old-Fashioned Copper]]: Inspector Maveryk
* [[Older Than They Look]]: John/Jack looks in his 30s at most, but has been fighting crime since the 1940s. (The strip can't begin earlier than 1991, given the registration plate on John's truck in the very first panel.)
* [[Older Than They Look]]: John/Jack looks in his 30s at most, but has been fighting crime since the 1940s. (The strip can't begin earlier than 1991, given the registration plate on John's truck in the very first panel.)
* [[Oop North]]
* [[Oop North]]

Revision as of 13:18, 26 January 2014

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 Castleford, 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, Inspector Maveryk, and Tom-Tom the Robot Man.

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