by Kevin Gaussoin, Editor-in-Chief

You and I have a lot in common with Bakasura. We have romantic feelings about our favorite foods. We love comics with tantalizing recipes. We love a good trip across the desert toward the Rare Flavours we crave and their inevitable perfect last bite. We consume like kings, devouring course after course until we can’t ingest one more bit, but then when our host offers up the perfect dessert, who are we to say no? With a devilish look, we devour that as well. 

Official Description:
Against all odds, Rubin and Mo’s documentary seems like it will finally be finished… but with Rubin nowhere to be found, just what exactly is he intending?

Ram V and Filipe Andrade’s delectable story of celebrity, demons, and that indelible magic of cooking reaches its climactic final issue, with an ending that cements the book as another must-read from the Eisner, Harvey, and Ringo-Award nominated team.

Creative Team:
Writer: Ram V
Art and color: Filipe Andrade
Color assists: Inês Amaro
Letterer: Andworld Design

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… read this series to 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. 

Five courses in, our meal of Rare Flavours was done. We were sated, but we were not yet finished. “There’s always room for Jello!” Or in this case: Paal Payasam, “The King of Food”. It’s a delicious sounding rice pudding.

Rubin and Mo had parted ways and demon hunters Dil and Dil having realized they had lost Rubin, wandered away defeated. So too did Mo. With Rubin gone, Mo just goes home depressed, languishing on his couch depressed.

…Until his hunger returns. 

Rare Flavours #5 is the perfect end to a majestic repast. It delivers a story so legendary, it should be added on to the Mahabharata as its own dessert course. Ram V and Filipe Andrade cooked up a comic at once scary, sad, funny, and inspirational. I want to write a tale parallel to this about my own cultures and our food. I’m not Indian. I’m not South Asian. I don’t even normally like curry. There, I said it. But this series made me love curry, Indian mythos, Bakasura, and certainly the magic recipe of Ram V and Filipe Andrade. I want more. 

Rare Flavours is devilishly delicious. Ram V and Filipe Andrade cook up a tale worthy of Gaiman or Bourdain.

Rating:
ComicsOnline gives Rare Flavours #6 5/5 supremely satisfying suppers.

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