Comics Review: Black Dynamite #2

I would call horseshit on this if it weren’t for my Comixology account.

Spoilers Below

I’m so glad that IDW decides to take a “We’ll release this whenever the fuck we feel like it” approach to Black Dynamite. They’re just as bad as Kaboom was with Regular Show, but at least we got issues after a while.

So, Black Dynamite got himself hauled off to Guantanamo Bay, where he’s sitting, waiting for a person to what ends up being a hair stylist. I actually dig the hair in this more than his normal afro, because it looks like a bad-ass kung-fu motherfucker. So, after his haircut, shit, and shower, he is met by The Man. He tells Dynamite that there actually is a shadow organization that pulls the strings of the world, making it turn the way they want it to. It turns out that The Man wants Dynamite to work for the Illuminati.

Of course Dynamite strings them along for a bit, to the point where they actually let him hold a rocket launcher. So, he literally melts faces, and almost makes it out. A swift kick to Dynamite’s shooting hand by The Man stops him. A pretty damn good three page fight ends with The Man getting the Trinity treatment . That’s three pieces of steel rebarb through his chest, like Trinity from Matrix Revolutions. He dies, just as a hot Asian woman in a helicopter shows up to take Dynamite away. She says her insurgency is the last line of defense for the future of the world. She says that Illuminati base is just one of many, and it’s just like a Hydra. Great, like we need more Hydra.

Dynamite accepts, on the terms of: He takes orders from nobody, he can walk away whenever he wants, and he wants cash. He is a hero for hire, after all. So he touches down, and makes a bee-line for the white and black girl duo waiting for him.

Four months. It took four fucking months for this issue to hit stores, which is even longer than it took issue one. That’s just counting from when issue one came out. This is not worth the wait, at all. The fight scene with Dynamite and The Man was spot on, but that was just a bunch of:

So far, the rest of the comic is just bad. There isn’t a lot of the flavor that made the show, or the movie, that great. Dynamite falls flat, and I find The Man and the Illuminati more interesting. You would expect to cultivate something between Dynamite and the Illuminati to actually find out why Dynamite would melt faces and kill The Man. And who is The Man? Why is he called that? We get a whole lot of nothing in that regard.With four months between issues, you would expect for this book to be overflowing with information like that, to get us engaged into the story. But, of course it doesn’t.

Let’s see if the next issue is any better. This is really sad, because the first issue was fantastic.