Comic Review: Black Salt: The Last Heroes Left #2

Black Salt #2

Writer: Chad Boudreau

Interior and Cover Artist: J. C. Grande

Colorist: Santosh Kumar Rath

Lettering and Production: Michael De Lepine

Publisher: Blackline Comics

A rogue shaolin monk heading an evil criminal empire, a sexy shaolin woman with an unknown connection to the evil monk and a muscular protector both working for US intelligence and both tracking the villain, and US intelliegence beureaucrats gumming up the works: these are the elements bringing us Black Salt: The Last Heroes Left.

Huan Li is the sexy agent with a history with the shaolin monks. Her drive to find Kali, the evil monk, is a force with which to be reconned. Samual Tharpe is her partner and friend since childhood. They make an unstoppable team out to end the malign plan of Kali.

Kali's plan is involves the theft of the M.A.R.S. virus, which can be turned weapon grade and used to devastate large areas. But you get the impression that Kali may have more complex plans than making a powerful missile.

Black Salt: The Last Heroes Left is an appealing story akin to the television show Kung Fu mixed with Mission: Impossible.

Boudreau gives us enough mystery to want to come back for more, and enough action to keep us going while we wait for the next startling revelation. His cliffhanger last page will have you chomping at the bit for issue #3.

Complimenting Boudreau's gripping tale is Grande's dynamic art. It's bright and colorful and you can almost see Agent Li's roundhouse kick streaking across an opponent's chin.

Blackline Comics has, in their own words, "cultivate[s] creator-owned projects produced by the best talent, to be distributed through the unlimited and largely untapped resources of the internet. Blackline launched in December 2008 with the promise of digital comics excitement."

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