The New Green Hornet

[samurainoir]

<insert "stinkpalm" joke here>

[thunderbolt]

Like the Hornet's costume update. Is Kato a chick?

[Riffster]

who owns the rights now?

[samurainoir]

Dynamite. Written by Kevin Smith. I would assume based on his unused screenplay.

[kingdom warrior]

Looks good!! Kato looks like a girl I see Boobies.....

[toys2cool]

wow, that looks great

[WannabeMego]

Yup...Kato is a Chick...but she's got "Man Hands, Jerry...Man Hands!!!"

[kennermike]

Seth Rogan/Stephen Chow and written by Evan Goldberg are about finished with the film version that comes out next summer June 25 2010 under the Sony/Columbia company

[The Toyroom]

Typical Alex Ross flashy cover for Dynamite but I'm betting the art on the inside pages will suck...couple that with the fact that I've never been overly impressed by Kevin Smith's work and you can do the math that I won't be buying this one...

[johnnystorm]

Yeah, I'm really geting put off by a lot of comics having terrific cover art then using what looks like high-school art students doing the interiors. (Bluewater & Zenoscope come to mind). The Dynamite SuperPowers books are a good example of this as well.

However, Dynamite has done alright by the Lone Ranger, Jungle Girl, and Sherlock Holmes so we'll see what happens. I'm more concerned about the storyline.

Dynamite can take a great concept and just wring all the life out of it. Look at Highlander...instead of a series of great period pieces and epic battles they bogged it down into a boring story about cold war spies.

Zorro is a good example of a character I love but the current book is beyond boring, all that young Diego stuff. Get to the action already! Zorro was great when Topps had it under Don McGregor, with some vilains other than the Alcalde and of course, Lady Rawhide. Dynamite just drags these storylines out & out.

The girl Kato bit was done before at NOW and amounted to naught because the rights owners disagreed on that point after initially okaying it...and they wanted the Bruce Lee version used. I'm betting this will occur here as well. I suspect the majority of the reading public expects a Bruce Lee version as well. And I also think Kevin Smith is vastly overrated. Some nice stuff on Green Arrow & a lot of really late so-so material. After the initial "movie adaption" storyline, look for him to exit quickly and the book to follow basically the same direction NOW comics took.

And does Alex Ross just stockpile posed character shots at random waiting for characters to be revived? Jesus, he's painting like 50 covers a month anymore...give somebody else a chance! He's become like the modern version of the guy who painted Dell covers in the 50s!

[The Toyroom]

And does Alex Ross just stockpile posed character shots at random waiting for characters to be revived? Jesus, he's painting like 50 covers a month anymore...give somebody else a chance! He's become like the modern version of the guy who painted Dell covers in the 50s!

His covers aren't "special" anymore IMO because, as you said, he's doing like 50 a month. Definitely OVERKILL.

[Riffster]

I hope it won't take as long as the Spiderman/black cat series took to finish

[The Toyroom]

I hope it won't take as long as the Spiderman/black cat series took to finish

or the Daredevil/Bullseye mini which was NEVER finished.....

[thunderbolt]

Smith's new Batman miniseries is already scheduled bimonthly to keep him on track. If its a mini, why not wait till its finished?

[The Toyroom]

I still find it hard to believe that these comic companies and fans get all excited whenever Kevin Smith's name is on a project...he's no better than others and his constant delays only negate any "star power" he does bring to a project....