THE GREEN HORNET #3

Dynamite Comics is going to town with their newly acquired Green Hornet rights. I think they already have four of five monthly books dealing with the Green Hornet. The problem with this is that once the movie comes out and Seth Rogen is playing the lead and the uber-weird director Michele Gondry is at the helm...will Dynamite be fucked? Will Dynamite's Green Hornet look totally different than the Rogen/Gondry Hornet? The movie won't hit until this Fall, and since it might show up being totally bizarre, the studio heads could very well push it back until February 2011. Anyway, this comic is written by Kevin Smith and based on his Green Hornet movie script. It's good so far and would have made a decent, by-the-numbers film. I feel like it works better as a comic, as by-the-numbers super hero movies are a dime a dozen these days. This is the best issue yet. Britt Reid, Sr. gets murdered. His son finds out that his dead father used to be the Green Hornet. He learns this by bumping into Kato at a bar and getting into a brawl. The art and colors in this book are first-rate. They're glorious. Phil Hester does the breakdowns and Jonathan Lau does the finishes. Ivan Nunes does the colors. It just looks like a super hero book should. The action looks frenzied and intense. The colors make it bold and beautiful. It's also Kevin Smith's best work since Batman: Cacophony. Sure, there's death but it's a fun book. ***