The Olongapo Caper - Trivia

Trivia

• This is Babman's first appearance in the comic strip. He would make another appearance as the main character in Babman.
• When Philip explains that he is Amerasian, Bab misinterprets what he hears and thinks that the word refers to memory loss - amnesia.
• Bab actually loses his way when the trio dive off Paradise Resort - he ends up in the Spratly Islands. He repeats the performance again after holing Jones' LCT. The Marines take him back both times. However, one of the Marines insist that Bab be kept on a tighter leash since they were fed up with traveling the long distance to drop him off.
• It is obvious that Joboy, despite being a mechanic, knows nothing about how a jet ski functions. He speculates that "water may have gotten into the exhaust pipe" and attempts to push-start the stalled vehicle, telling Agnes to put the jet ski into "second gear and pop the clutch".
• Babman's "Fat-Signal" (a spoof of the Bat-Signal), is a peace symbol.
• Judge Tickolas Marshall's motto is a modification of the Dark Justice tagline, "Justice may be blind, but it can see in the dark.". His version is "Justice may be blind, but you can hear its bark."
• In response to a guard's password challenge, one of the bad guys in the van responds by singing the opening lines of the Imelda Papin ballad Isang Linggong Pag-ibig (Filipino, "A Week-long Love Affair").
• Pol Medina, Jr. makes a small mistake in this story arc, mis-labeling a flare gun as an "Avery Pistol". Flare guns are sometimes called "Very Pistols" after Edward Wilson Very, the gadget's inventor.
• Babman's line, "Have you ever danced with the devil... in the pale moonlight?" is borrowed from the 1989 Batman movie starring Michael Keaton. In a scene in the film, The Joker asks Bruce Wayne, "Tell me something, friend. Have you ever danced with the devil by the pale moonlight?".
• The fourth wall is broken once more as Judge Marshall talks Joboy and Philip out of letting the syndicate go down with the barge. There are "witnesses", he says, pointing at the reader, much to the duo's disappointment.
• Judge Marshall's unwillingness to hurt women is so far the only fear specific to a guise of Polgas. Polgas' general weakness of losing consciousness upon smelling a very foul odor, however, is not seen in Judge Marshall. Inversely, being a weakness specific to a guise, this weakness of gallantry is not seen yet in any of his other guises
• A minor arc preceding this one, in the same book, actually introduces Judge Marshall and discusses the kinds of sentences he lays out, probably as an appetizer to what kind of sentence he will eventually pass on to Jones.