by Kevin Gaussoin, Editor-in-Chief

You and I have a lot in common with Bakasura. We miss the feeling of being lost and yet driven to some destination. We love a perfect chai. We love comics with tantalizing recipes. We love a good trip across the desert toward the Rare Flavours we crave and their inevitable spicy last bite.  

Official Description:
The next masterpiece from Ram V and Filipe Andrade (The Many Deaths of Laila Starr) continues as Rubin and Mo journey deep into the scorching Rajasthan desert in search of a mythical pepper, but supernatural detectives Dilshan & Dilkush are hot on their trail! 

Meanwhile, their driver, Manish, takes them on a historical journey concerning those who ferry the peppers through the fiery landscape.

Bakasura, now known as “Rubin Baksh” is a Rakshasa (not the anthropomorphic tigers from Dungeons & Dragons) from The Mahabharata. That tale was first compiled a couple thousand years ago, so what has Baksh been up to since then? Healing, certainly. His back, famously broken by the hero Bhima, has mostly recovered. His appetites? Well… I guess we’ll find out. 

*SPOILERS*

As we learned in the appetizer issue #1 of Rare Flavours, Baksh has decided that he wants to create a documentary about food and sell it to a streaming company. It seems like this will eventually happen, but it also seems like maybe Mo, the director/cinematographer that Baksh has cooking up his documentary, may not actually become dessert in the end. There’s a tiny glimpse at the end of each of these first two issues that makes me think Mo survives, at least until the premiere. 

Rare Flavours #2 is more than a soup course and clearly we haven’t arrived at the meat of our tale, so where are we now? Just as the devilish Baksh seems to be turning to look directly at us to deliver a juicy bite of story, we see that Dil and Dil have caught up with our rapacious rakshasa. Can the supernatural detectives put a cork in Baksh or will the Mathania Laal Mirch prove too spicy for these two Dil-wads? 

Rare Flavours is devilishly delicious. Ram V and Filipe Andrade turn up the heat on a tale worthy of Gaiman or Bourdain.

Rating:
ComicsOnline gives Rare Flavours #2 5/5 mouthwateringly piquant dishes.

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