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Black Dynamite: Slave Island
Mint Condition Comic Book Bagged and Boarded at time of arrival.
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48 pages, Paperback
First published April 5, 2011
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June 20, 2011
This is a hilarious comic book that revisits the world of Black Dynamite as first introduced in the 2009 movie. I laughed out loud four or five times, and the sense of humor here holds true to the movie with the same tongue-in-cheek homage to 1960s blaxploitation film. The fake ads are a really nice touch. A very quick read but a nice complement to the movie and a good way to get a Black Dynamite fix while waiting for the upcoming Adult Swim cartoon to debut in 2012.
September 11, 2016
2009's Black Dynamite was a hilarious picture which delivered a cult classic hero, along with lovingly poking fun at the blaxploitation pictures of the 70s. This comic proves to be a fantastic expansion of the character, delivering a hilarious tale full of memorable scenes and knowing racial commentary.
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January 20, 2014
Hilarious commentary and action-packed
June 29, 2024
Black Dynamite is among the greatest films ever committed to celluloid. Black Dynamite: Slave Island is among the greatest comic books ever committed to paper. Much like how the film is a love letter to early '70s Blaxploitation movies, this comic book is a love letter to early '70s Marvel Comic books, albeit with the word "motherfucker" used in copious amounts. From it's quasi-homage cover of Luke Cage, Hero For Hire #1 to the washed out looking color, which ironically took a lot of work on computers to make look low-tech and old, this feels like something from 1972.
Props to the crew first: Writer Brian Ash's dialogue had me laughing hysterically, as much if not more so than the in the movie. Pure. Fucking. Genius. Artist Jun LoFamia does a convincing job of making this feel like a 1972 Marvel comic, and that's awesome. Colorist J. M. Rinquet made this thing look old, from the "aging" of the color of the panel borders, to the fake color bleed, printing inconsistencies and the flat color palettes used. This book looks like an old comic book. Again, it is ironic how high-tech means had to be employed, to great effort, to make this look old and low budget. Pure. Fucking. Genius. The shark fight is among the greatest fight scenes anywhere, ever, and even blows away the shark fight scene in the Batman TV series from 1966.
Props to the crew first: Writer Brian Ash's dialogue had me laughing hysterically, as much if not more so than the in the movie. Pure. Fucking. Genius. Artist Jun LoFamia does a convincing job of making this feel like a 1972 Marvel comic, and that's awesome. Colorist J. M. Rinquet made this thing look old, from the "aging" of the color of the panel borders, to the fake color bleed, printing inconsistencies and the flat color palettes used. This book looks like an old comic book. Again, it is ironic how high-tech means had to be employed, to great effort, to make this look old and low budget. Pure. Fucking. Genius. The shark fight is among the greatest fight scenes anywhere, ever, and even blows away the shark fight scene in the Batman TV series from 1966.
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