Repo Man Sequel: The Comic Book

**YellerDog** · 27 Feb 2008, 09:33 PM

Comes out in March from "Gestalt Comics".

Cox, who’s meticulously kept track of his career on his web site, wrote a sequel to Repo Man in 1995…which never got made, despite several efforts. However, readers will finally get a chance to find out what happened next this March when the sequel, Waldo’s Hawaiian Holiday, premieres as an original graphic novel from Australian publisher Gestalt Comics.

It was a natural fit – Cox, who also directed Sid & Nancy and co-wrote the screenplay to the film version of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, originally pitched Repo Man to producer Mike Nesmith (yes, the guy from the Monkees) with a four-page comic, the art from which is reprinted here. In addition, wrote a Godzilla comic in the early days of Dark Horse, worked on an unproduced Dr. Strange screenplay with Stan Lee, and profusely illustrated his original Waldo script.

Waldo’s Hawaiian Holiday picks up the story of Otto (now called “Waldo”) as he returns from space, finds the world has moved on, and settles into a series of increasingly pointless jobs manned by the mysterious Duke Mantee. Luckily, he stumbles onto a pair of tickets for a Hawaiian getaway, but finds that leaving LA…isn’t as easy as it used to be.

Funnybook sequel to Repo Man? This sounds like a fucking terrible idea.

I'm going to read it.

**Frogacuda** · 27 Feb 2008, 10:29 PM

Repo Man is my favorite movie ever, and I will be checking this out.

I would also like to punch whoever turned down the attempts to make a movie out of this.

**YellerDog** · 27 Feb 2008, 10:31 PM

It is a fucking great movie.

And they should be punched directly in the armpits for failing to make a movie sequel.

**Frogacuda** · 27 Feb 2008, 10:39 PM

Maybe the comic will generate some interest.

**Frogacuda** · 27 Feb 2008, 10:56 PM

Also, apparently Searchers 2.0 is playing in NYC tomorrow. I should go.

**YellerDog** · 28 Feb 2008, 12:49 AM

Cool. Dude makes fun movies.

**Clash!** · 28 Feb 2008, 02:38 PM

Repo Man is easily in my Top 15 of all time, so I am stoaked for this. Why did they change Ottos name to Waldo? Odd. Alex Cox rules, just purchased "Walker" which is not nearly as amazing as "Repo Man", but its still really good and weird. Criterion put it out, its expensive for a single disc, but the movie has also never been printed on DVD in the U.S.