The Bozak Then

The "original" episodes of the Bozak Power were produced by the class of '93 TV Tech class, with help from the members of '94, at Surrattsville High. It tended to quite low budget with a single camera and the camera man doing all the voices, plus all of the scenes took place on the school premisis. The humor was raunchy at best but usually had a tendency to drop a room of Con Slugs to the floor with laughter. I felt inspired and awed with these concepts and decided to begin writing my own furthering episodes. The new adventures of the Bozak Power had a completely new cast of characters and situations. I also decided to have my world step out of time and for the most part takes place out of time yet within sword and sandle, bad-dub kung-fu flicks everywhere. I'm going to include copies of my scripts but I am debating whether or not to wait until an episode has been performed to post it's script. We'll see . . .

Tang, the real intelligence of the dark Bozak gives his commentary:

The Bozak, how it happened or why the answer is 42

Well now, where to begin? Back in high school, did anyone else out
there have those days called game bell days? You know, where there was
a (usually) varsity sport game in the gym and they shortened the class
schedule so that students could attend it. Well, I myself have next to
no interest in sports whatsoever, so I always tended to hang out in the
library during the games.

During my junior year, as I was just kicking back in the library during
a game bell, I saw my friends Darren and Kingsley walking around with a
video camera. At this point in time these two were in the video
production class, a class which I now wish I'd taken. Anyway, they were
filming the 5th episode of the Bozak, the original Bozak that is. So I
figured, hey, why not watch?

What I discovered was one of the most original and twisted pieces of
creativity ever to come out of the Surrattsville High School video
production class. Mr. Roberts, the teacher, was proud. Well, he should
have been, anyway. The Bozak, in essence, was a rather zany, often
crass, take on those old Hong Kong action flicks that so many of us grew
up watching. Darren, the cameraman, did all the voices. That by itself
should suggest just how strange it was. But I'll tell you what, I have
yet to see a better way of making something looked like a badly dubbed
kung fu flick. The other most notable feature of the Bozak was that
approximately half the cast was named Mike. There was Bozak Mike, the
main character, Mike who had the Power of the Perfect Hair (no,
really!), and several of the supporting cast members were also named
Mike. Basically, Bozak Mike would wander the halls of the school and be
constantly challenged by the minions of Master Chin. And of course,
Mike always won. His techniques were...unorthodox to say the least.
Let's just put it this way. If you feel offended by the humor of the
current incarnation of the Bozak, you should have seen the original. It
was rather unbelievable at times.

There were seven episodes produced in total, the first six taking place
on school grounds and the seventh in Coska Park, which is just a hop,
skip, and a jump from Sue Shambaugh and Tom Holtz. If only they knew.
At one point in time, I possessed a tape of all seven episodes plus some
other rather bizarre stuff that came out of those warped imaginations.
But for the life of me, I have no idea what happened to my copy or any
of the copies that were made from it. What I wouldn't give to see those
again...

Anyway, my bud Chang Ling Fenz was so impressed by the humor and
technique of the Bozak that once it became defunct (we all graduated
eventually), he took it upon himself to carry on the saga. Hence we
have our current mission, to further the legacy of the Bozak Power at as
many anime cons as possible. The rest, as they say, is history. Well,
it's elsewhere on this web page if nothing else.

Oh yeah, why is the answer 42? I recently learned that in Japanese that
number can mean "to die". Hold on a sec while I ask Akuma-chan how that
works...well, she didn't know either, but I suppose it has something to
do with how when four is pronounced "shi", it can mean death. Do you
suppose Hitchkiker's Guide is suggesting that the ultimate answer is
death? Something to think about...

Tang, retainer of Lord Ballz, nemesis of the Bozak

You may go back to the library, right to the recent history of the Bozak, or return to the main temple.