BLACK DYNAMITE – animated series – ADULT SWIM: SD Comic Con
July 29th, 2011 by Mr. C
“All you suckas gather around!”
“He’s the smoothest, baddest, muther to ever hit the big screen…main man, Black Dynamite!”
“He’s super cool & he knows Kong fu!”
“Drives a $5000 car and wears a $100 suit!”
“When it comes to the ladies, BD is outta sight!”
“When the mob kills his brotha and puts the dope on the streets, Black Dynamite gets back in the game and is playing for keeps!”
“Black Dynamite is badder than Shaft, The Mack, & Superfly put together!”
With those sentiments in mind, I was struttin’ my stuff walking side to side, grabbing my crotch while muttering DYNO-MITE when I entered the Indigo ballroom of the Hilton Hotel at the San Diego Comic Con! We were all excited waiting for the BLACK DYNAMITE animated series cast members to drop step (Patrick Ewing style) into the panel consisting of Michael Jai White (voice of BD), Kym Whitley (voice of Honeybee), Scott Sanders (director), Carl Jones (executive producer), & Byron Minns (writer/voice over). It was real groovy that most of the voices from this animated series were also the same actors/actresses that were from the BLACK DYNAMITE live action film from 2009 including Arsenio Hall, Tommy Davidson, Kym Whitley, & of course BD himself, Michael Jai White! For all of you that haven’t seen Black Dynamite the movie, it’s a blaxploitation comedy/action flick depicting a 1970’s former CIA named BD with expert ‘kong fu’ skills who is fighting against everything that’s NOT good in the hood especially THE MAN to avenge his brother while he maxes, relaxes, & pleases all the ladies at the same time! Black Dynamite is sort of a spoof to the blaxploitation films of yesteryear but also pledges its allegiance towards the brother films of the past as well. I was really enamored to hear that Adult Swim was backing, waxing, & adapting an animated series to this film because the story is just too good not to! You can feel the energy and spirit of Michael Jai White, the director Scott Sanders, Kym Whitley, & blaxploitation film expert & writer, Byron Minns as they talked about their new project on the panel as well as ping ponging around some funny stories! It would of been really cool if Arsenio Hall & Tommy Davidson could of made it to comic con as well! We had the pleasure to be able to view the 1st episode of Black Dynamite the animated series that night at comic con and in the famous words of BD… “ha-ha, can you dig it?!!!”. I certainly dug it and as Jim Kelly (Williams) from Enter the Dragon would say, it “came straight out of a comic book!”. Be sure to keep Black Dynamite on your Adult Swim radar in early 2012! It’s gonna’ be OUTTA’ SIGHT!
Tags: adult swim, animated, black dynamite, byron minns, carl jones, comic con, kym whitley, michael jai white, scott sanders
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