Die Hard: Year One

By Brian Kronner on 03.05.2010

Anyone who knows me, or has at least read majority of the stuff I’ve written for Bam Kapow knows about my man-crush on John McClane. As far as I’m concerned, McClane is right up there with Clint Eastwood’s ‘Man with no Name’ and ‘Harry Callahan’. I’ve seen DIE HARD well over a hundred times and was ecstatic when Bruce Willis hinted at a 5^th movie recently.

So today I made a long overdue trip to the comic store and saw DIE HARD: YEAR ONE. A comic from ‘BOOM!’, about the beginning of McClane’s career. I picked up the first couple issues, and so far so good. No ridiculous plots yet. Just John McClane, rookie. I love this idea because you don’t have to go overboard with it, just simple police stories that expand on the mythology of one of my favorite characters.

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Slash Film - “Every great action hero got started somewhere: Batman Began. Bond had his Casino Royale. And for John McClane, more than a decade before the first DIE HARD movie, he’s just another rookie cop, an East Coast guy working on earning his badge in New York City during 1976’s Bicentennial celebration. Too bad for John McClane, nothing’s ever that easy.”

McClane in a vent
Yippie-kai-yay Mr. Falcon.

6 Comments

		2010-03-03 16:03:38 MUNKRAWK would take a shitload of special effects to make him look like a rookie. They did a not too bad of a job in Surrogates but still.

		2010-03-03 16:03:54 MUNKRAWK Now that I think of it, they did an amazing job of it in Unbreakable, unless that was some kind of clone. lol

		2010-03-05 19:03:56 Dr. Kronner MUNK - the comic is YEAR ONE, if they do a 5th movie it will just be a sequel.

		2010-03-06 11:03:14 Nanchancan Yeah, duh MUNKRAWK don't be so stupid.

		2010-03-06 14:03:06 bubaroni Yeah, duh NANCHANCAN don't be so douchy.

		2010-03-07 22:03:29 bubaroni and omg why the fuck they makin' another one. i mean like every time they make a new one somethin' inside me dies a little. OH and i would love to see bruce willis play a role thats new to him ya' know? its like every since i was two years old right the only consistent things in my life have been people gettin' dumber and bruce willis playin' the same role in every movie.

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