Jack Black (Viz)

Jack Black is a character that appears in the Adult Viz comic.

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Both the drawn style of the strip as well as the character are a parody of the Boy's Own-style character who is wholesome but ultimately fascistic in beliefs and actions. There is more than a hint of Enid Blyton in the Jack Black character.

Related Topics:
Boy's Own - Enid Blyton

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Jack is effectively a young amateur detective who along with his dog Silver seems to spend an eternal summer holiday staying with his Aunt Meg. The time period ranges from anywhere between the early 1920/30s to the present day.

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Jack usually ends up finding out that what the suspect has done is technically not illegal, but still succeeds in getting the miscreants involved arrested on trivial charges and severely punished, often at the savage hands of the community. For instance, when someone tried sell a tactical nuclear missile to the IRA the village policeman pointed out that the man was a licensed arms dealer. Jack then had the arms dealer arrested for having an out-of-date tax disk on the car he was carrying the missile in.

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Other examples of Jack's adventures include:

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• Uncovering a milk hoarding scam involving asylum seekers.
• Exhuming a deceased man's corpse so that he can prove that his child was born out of wedlock.
• Teaming up with a paedophile priest to expose a teacher who is teaching safe sex to teenagers (the teacher is then lynched by a mob), then assisting his Aunt in performing illegal abortions.
• Getting a charity worker arrested for holding a charity sale on a Sunday and having his guide dog destroyed.
• Torturing a downed German fighter pilot and then becoming a Nazi supporter.
• Uncovering an Al-Qaeda cell after finding out that their leader reads The Guardian newspaper and not the Daily Mail.

Jack is also seen in one episode to be working on a school homework project entitled 'The Myth of the Holocaust'.

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