Black Dynamite Gets A Mini Series From IDW.. Watch Out Jive Turkeys !!!

You heard that right, all you kung-fu lovin' mofos... Black Dynamite is back, and he is doing it big! While we wait for director Scott Sanders and actor Michael Jai White to bring us another installment of the film franchise (rumor has it to be a ghetto western in the vein of Blazing Saddles) we have to make due with a 4 issue mini series from IDW. Following up the epic one shot graphic novel, Black Dynamite: Escape From Slave Island, we are getting a four issue limited series from writer Brian Ash, art by Ron Wimberley, and inks by the LEGENDARY Sal Buscema! The first issue hit stores this week, and hopefully the next three issues will be on time over the next three months (first issue Feb, followed by March, April and May). The comic is sure to continue the radical racial hi jinks and nonsense that the movie brought forth, and even kick it up a notch considering there is no limitations to budget in a comic book. In Slave Island BD had a fist fight with a SHARK... A GREAT WHITE SHARK!!! Now he takes on a villain by the name of Too Swole (really!). Can't wait to see what Ash and Wimberley have in store for my favorite anti-hero. Click here to order your copy on Amazon, or go to your local Mom & Pop comic store and pick your copy up! You can see the full press release and the first cover after the jump.



Press release via Scott Sanders email:

Hello there! 

Scott Sanders here, writer/director of BLACK DYNAMITE. 

It's been a while since I was last in touch, but I wanted to share some exciting news.
BLACK DYNAMITE #1 -- the first in a four-issue comic series from IDW -- hits stores today!

HE’S A POWDER KEG OF BLACK FURY THAT’S ABOUT TO EXPLODE!  The baddest kung-fu cat to ever appear on screen is coming to comics so you suckers better duck!  Former CIA agent, international ladies man, and sworn ass-kicking enemy of The Man… he’s BLACK DYNAMITE—and he’s about to walk into the most dangerous journey of his life! 

Written by Brian Ash (Black Dynamite: Slave Island), with art by Ron Wimberley, inks by the legendary Sal Buscema and color by JM Ringuet.
You can view an exclusive preview of the book here.
I've also attached our cover art by Marcelo Ferreira (after Jack Kirby), so please share with your fans, followers, and friends online. 

BLACK DYNAMITE #1 is available in comic book stores nationwide.Dy-no-mite! 

-Scott

Here is a link to six interior pages as a preview. They are great!

And here are the covers for Issue #1:

Issue #1 Regular Cover

Issue #1 Variant Cover

It's Times Like This That I Wish I Had A Crib In L.A.

I love NYC... god knows that's true. But the West Coast has the movie business on lock, and there is no shortage of movie related special events happening out in L.A. that I would love to attend. Case in point, this magnificent motherfucking 'Black Dynamite' event:

This is all in an effort to promote the new 'Black Dynamite: Slave Island' comic book... one that I am eagerly anticipating in the mail to review (thanks Jillian!!!). You got a screening of the movie (one of my all time faves) at 6:30 PM, The recording of a live podcast at 8:00 PM, and then a comic book signing to finish it all up with a bang at 9:00 PM. In the words of director Scott Sanders:

"Chris Hardwick will lead a panel that includes Michael Jai White ("Black Dynamite", co-writer), Byron Minns ("Bullhorn", co-writer), Scott Sanders (director, co-writer), Brian Ash (comic author, writer for The Boondocks) to chat about the making of the greatest Blaxploitation comedy of all time, and its extension into the comic world. There will also be a live music performance by the film's score-master Adrian Younge and The Black Dynamite Sound Orchestra."  

How F'n unbelievable does that sound? Black Dynamite himself & Bullhorn are gonna be up in this bitch!!! God damn... I wish I could get out there!!! Hey Scott, can you send Cream Corn with the helicopter for me? Please.... Grrrr. Anyway, we met Scott at last years NYC Comic Con and he was the man. He gave us a long ass interview and signed a bunch of preview comics for us (that we gave away to you guys!!!) and proved to be one cool dude. Good luck with the event guys... and if you are in the L.A. area, make this happen!!!!

All of this takes place on April 4th @ Meltdown Comics, 7522 Sunset Blvd, Los Angeles, Ca 90046

OMG... Black Dynamite: Slave Island Is Upon Us

We told you guys awhile back that Ape Entertainment & Ars Nova were making a comic book adaption of 'Black Dynamite'. 'Black Dynamite' is one of my favorite movies of the past five years and makes me cry laughing every time I watch it. So when we were at the NYC Comic Con and found out there was going to be a comic entitled 'Slave Island', you know I was in. It's been a few months with not much news... until I got this email yesterday from Black Dynamite's main man (and dead sidekick) Bullhorn:

Bullhorn here to make the way clear, for the baddest comic book of the year!

BLACK DYNAMITE: SLAVE ISLAND will make you see the light
based on the film written by Byron Minns, Scott Sanders and Michael Jai White!
Brian Ash of The Boondocks is the author of this book
and the artist Jun Lofamia gives Dynamite his look!

It's the coolest comic on paper, if you know what I mean
cause BD's the toughest muthaf*cka that the world ever seen
Whether hustle or tussle, you know who's gonna win it.
Hell, I bought thirteen copies, and I ain't even in it!


So if you're lookin’ for some action and a comic that’s out of sight
make sure you pick up SLAVE ISLAND featuring … BLACK DYNAMITE!

If you seen Black Dynamite, you know that Bullhorn and his rhyming speeches are some of the best part of the movie. Kudos to Ape Entertainment & Ars Nova for wording their press release in the manner of one of the characters from the movie!!! They also included what seems to be the official cover art for the book, which is due April 4th, 2011.

Make sure you get to your local Mom & Pop comic shop and support 'Black Dynamite' you jive ass turkey... this is going to be epic!!!