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Codename: Action from Dynamite unites Captain Action with Green Hornet, Kato and More!

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Dynamite Entertainment is teaming up with Captain Action Enterprises for the September launch of Codename: Action. Thesix-issue comic book event unites Captain Action, with classic pulp heroes including Green Hornet, Kato, the Spider, and Black Venus.  Written by Chris Roberson and featuring artwork by Jonathan Lau , the debut issues will include variant covers by accomplished illustrators Jae Lee, Francesco Francavilla, Jonathan Lau, Johnny Desjardins, and Art Baltazar.

Codename: Action takes place during the Cold War, as unknown forces scheme to heat up the global conflict.  When key officials on both sides of the Iron Curtain are replaced with doppelgangers, the infiltration threatens to disrupt the precarious state of world affairs… until one young secret agent shapes the world’s masked heroes into a force with singular purpose and unyielding resolve!

Codename: Action #1 is solicited in the Diamond July Previews catalog for release in September.  Dynamite has welcomed a talented pool of artists, including award winners and fan-favorites, to provide a selection of cover variants for readers to enjoy.  Shipping to retailers in an equal ratio of cover variants, Codename: Action #1 features five covers, one each from Jae Lee, Francesco Francavilla, Jonathan Lau, and Johnny Desjardins, plus a special “Captain Action Spy Cover” design edition.  Dynamite will also produce a sixth, Subscription-Only “Cute” variant featuring artwork by Art Balthazar, limited only to retailer initial orders as a reward for dedicated Dynamite fans.

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First Ever Pulp Hero Crossover From Dynamite

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The Shadow, Green Hornet, Kato, Zorro, The Spider, Miss Fury, The Black Bat and MORE are all featured in Masks, the Dynamite Entertainment cross-over featuring the top pulp heroes of all time.  Written by Chris Roberson, the entire first issue is painted by Alex Ross. This is his first full interior work since Justice at DC Comics.  Masks is hitting comic book stores everywhere this November, also featuring covers by Alex Ross, Sean Phillips, Howard Chaykin and Jae Lee.

In Masks #1, it’s 1938, and the Justice Party has swept into office in New York State. But the newly-elected officials are in the control of powerful criminals, who quickly corrupt the law to their own advantage. When a fascist police state is instituted, the only ones who stand in defense of the innocent are masked vigilantes like the Shadow, the Green Hornet, Kato, and the Spider. When the law is unjust, justice must be an outlaw…

Preview – Kevin Smith’s Kato Vol. 2: Living in America Trade Paperback

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KEVIN SMITH’S KATO VOL. 2: LIVING IN AMERICA TRADE PAPERBACK

128 pages FC  • $19.99  •  Teen +
Written by ANDE PARKS
Art by DIEGO BERNARD,
Cover by ALÉ GARZA

From the pages of Kevin Smith’s Green Hornet comes this thrilling offshoot, starring Mulan Kato, daughter of the original Green Hornet’s faithful companion, Kato! Having squared off against Black Hornet in Japan, the new Kato travels to the states to continue the battle against the man who killed her mother. As Kato begins her quest in America, she finds herself facing off against a league of Black Hornet’s Swarm Ninjas, as well as a gang of super-deadly teen assassins!

Collects issues six through ten of the hit Dynamite Entertainment series.

Review – The Green Hornet

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The Green HornetIt’s been almost a week since I spent my Saturday afternoon watching the big screen adaptation of The Green Hornet.  It’s been a week and I’m still stewing at what I still think is not only one of the worst comic book movies of recent years, but in general one of the worst movies in recent memory.

There’s nothing enjoyable about this movie.  Seth Rogen plays Britt Reid (The Green Hornet) who after his father’s death decides to do some good with his life.  The movie’s lead from his party animal lifestyle to this revelation is such a shift and unbelievable it’s still not the worst plot device of the movie.  The ruminate on the horrors would be endless.  Rogen also gets double credit for being one of the writers of this craptacular movie.

Playing second fiddle to Rogen’s Hornet is Jay Chou who plays Kato.  Chou is easily the best thing of the movie.  His Kato is actually entertaining in both his moves, but personality.  There’s something likeable about him, even in this horrendous movie.

Rounding up the cast is Cameron Diaz in one of the strangest castings and waste of a big name talent.  She gets the shit role of being the potential romantic tip of the triangle between Rogen and Chou.  Also is villain Chudnofsky played by Christoph Waltz, another complete waste of talent.

The plot is just so beyond idiotic, I don’t know where to begin.  The biggest problem is this horrific story was put in place from Kevin Smith’s beyond superior original take.  But, to show off just some of the issues the movie can’t decide if it wants to be comedic or an action movie.  Instead it bounces between the two never quite deciding what it wants to do, and failing at both.

Worst of all I saw this movie in 3D.  Two tickets for $25 (which I regret spending and still want back) for 3D which is beyond shoe-horned in with piss-poor special effects “coming at you” after needless explosions.  If there was an example of how not to do 3D, this would be it.

Want to know how much more I loathed this movie?  Continue reading after the jump.

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