I want to tell you a story about a friend I had. He’s a mean motherfucker and he’s super bad.
He’s the kind of brother that rules a town, even the coroner follows him around.
His afro’s so bad it won’t ever relax. When he go to the barber they part his hair with an axe.
And he’ll be hauling you out with the rest of the trash, if your mouth write a check that yo ass can’t cash! 

That friend, of course, is our favorite Vietnam vet, ex-CIA agent and the master of dealing with Kung Fu treachery himself, Black Dynamite. After successfully dispatching with the group of drug dealers and street thugs who dispatched with his brother and kept drugs in the community (in the orphanages, no less!) we catch up with our hero right after the events of the movie as he’s about to uncover the worst vacation resort to ever be: Slave Island. 

When we first see Black Dynamite again he is on his way to the clinic to see Alex Haley (who somehow went from being the author of “Roots” to doctor, but that’s neither here nor there) who has a patient seemingly from another time, talking about a place where hundreds of slaves are still kept on a plantation. It all sounds too crazy to be true but Black Dynamite knows he has to check it out to make sure his people are not being kept down. After fighting a great white with his bare hands, Black Dynamite ends up being captured as a slave himself and promises the other slaves that he will “burn this motherfucker down”. The rest of the 48 page book shows you how and if (please, like it’s possible he wouldn’t accomplish this) he does the deed in fine fashion.

As written by Brian Ash (The Boondocks), based on a story created by the writers of the movie, he does a great job of capturing the “voice” of Black Dynamite. The whole thing feels like it would have made a great sequel film which I think is only testament to the quality of the source material. What’s most impressive to me is the ink done by Jun Lofamia, who’s work in the 60s and 70s is a perfect fit to match the authentic “feel” that the Black Dymamite universe strives to evoke at every turn. The book has a couple instances of adverts with Ferrante Jones (the ex-football player-turned-actor to play Black Dynamite made up and played by Michael Jai White in the movie) and they only make the whole thing more fun for fans of the film.

Filled with over-the-top action, sex, humor and plenty of Blaxploitation awesomeness, Slave Island makes a great addition to the expanding Black Dynamite universe. I hope they keep making more one shot stories to complement the upcoming animated series and any possible future sequel to the original film. It’s in stores now for 595 cents, ya dig?