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Preview: Legenderry Green Hornet TP

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Legenderry Green Hornet TP

writer: Daryl Gregory
artist: Brent Peeples
cover: Joe Benitez
FC • 128 pages • $17.99
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From the pages of Bill Willingham’s Legenderry: A Steampunk Adventure… it’s Green Hornet and Kato, goggles-deep in an all-out gang war. Against a Neo-Victorian backdrop of clockworks and bowler hats, writer Daryl Gregory and artist Brent Peeples take the classic pulp crusaders and their war against crime – infiltrating the enemy in their colorful masked guises — to whole new levels of whimsy and wonder!

When Little Lord Homicide makes his claim as heir to the Big City’s underworld, the pint-sized child psychopath incites a gang war against the reigning Veiled Lady… and draws our disguised heroes into a web of intrigue and revenge. As urban warriors from every dank alleyway pour into the violent cobblestone streets, a mysterious new player known as the Brass Hornet makes the chaos decidedly personal by offering a king’s ransom for the Green Hornet’s head!

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Preview: Legenderry Green Hornet

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Legenderry Green Hornet

writer: Daryl Gregory
artist: Brent Peeples
cover: Joe Benitez
FC • 128 pages • $17.99
COLLECTS ISSUES 1-5!

From the pages of Bill Willingham’s Legenderry: A Steampunk Adventure… it’s Green Hornet and Kato, goggles-deep in an all-out gang war. Against a Neo-Victorian backdrop of clockworks and bowler hats, writer Daryl Gregory and artist Brent Peeples take the classic pulp crusaders and their war against crime – infiltrating the enemy in their colorful masked guises — to whole new levels of whimsy and wonder!
When Little Lord Homicide makes his claim as heir to the Big City’s underworld, the pint-sized child psychopath incites a gang war against the reigning Veiled Lady… and draws our disguised heroes into a web of intrigue and revenge. As urban warriors from every dank alleyway pour into the violent cobblestone streets, a mysterious new player known as the Brass Hornet makes the chaos decidedly personal by offering a king’s ransom for the Green Hornet’s head!

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Preview: Legenderry: Green Hornet #5

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Legenderry: Green Hornet #5

Daryl Gregory (w)
Brent Peeples (a)
Sergio Dávila (c)
FC • 32 pages • $3.99 • Teen+
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This is it–the climax to the action packed series! The Green Hornet and Brass Hornet throw down with the Veiled Lady and BlackMass, while Kato and Grimes take on Tik-Tok’s Deacons. It’s steampulp / kung fu madness!

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Preview: Legenderry: Green Hornet #4

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Legenderry: Green Hornet #4

Daryl Gregory (w)
Brent Peeples (a)
Sergio Dávila (c)
FC • 32 pages • $3.99 • Teen+
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Green Hornet and Kato team up with Brass Hornet to track down Lidia Valcallan. But it’s five miles to Breed Tower, they’re on foot, it’s dark, and they’re wearing goggles. Oh, and every gang in the city is trying to kill them!

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Preview: Legenderry: Green Hornet #3

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Legenderry: Green Hornet #3

Daryl Gregory (w)
Brent Peeples (a)
Sergio Fernandez Davila (c)
FC • 32 pages • $3.99 • Teen+
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The Big City gang war heats up, and there’s a bounty on the Green Hornet’s head! The Hornet and Kato start their hunt for the secret architect of the war, which leads them to the headquarters of the strangest cult in the city, the Clockwork Cathedral. When the great and powerful Tik-Tok asks for donations, they will be collected!

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Preview: Legenderry Green Hornet #2

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Legenderry Green Hornet #2

Daryl Gregory (w)
Brent Peeples (a)
Sergio Fernandez Davila, Ivan Nunes (c)
FC l 32 pages l $3.99 l Teen+ l ­3/18
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The Big City gang war heats up, and there’s a bounty on the Green Hornet’s head! The Hornet and Kato start their hunt for the secret architect of the war, which leads them to the headquarters of the strangest cult in the city, the Clockwork Cathedral. When the great and powerful Tik-Tok asks for donations, they will be collected!

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Review: Legenderry Green Hornet #2

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LegenderryGH02-Cov-A-DavilaOf all of the sub-genres of science fiction, it is likely steampunk that is the most quirky and visually appealing.  With that in mind, as with any overly appealing visual material, creative teams in comics can get away with a bit of leeway before having to produce the same level of quality in a plot as what the visual element provides.  Thus the second issue of Legenderry for both Vampirella and Red Sonja didn’t meet the expectations of the first issue, but the trend is interrupted with the second issue of Green Hornet.  The first issue after all relied the least on the steampunk inspiration, acting as something more akin to a Green Hornet story from the television show.

It should be said though that the first issue was inundated with villains, and that is not aided here with the introduction of about twice as many again.  Despite the abundance of villains the plot is not very complicated, although it is important to realize who is who.  Instead the plot focuses on them one at a time and manages the keep its own momentum going with well paced action sequences including an interrogation and a big throwdown between the Hornet and Kato versus some new henchmen.  And although literary nonsense is a separate genre from steampunk, the two are often paired together, and so it is nice to see some references to the Wizard of Oz.

These series thus finds a way to not rely too heavily on its setting to tell its story, which seems to be the case for the other two Legenderry titles after their second issues.  This is still a highly stylistic world in which everything is possible through the power of copper and steam, but Legenderry Green Hornet manages to blend into the world better than others, despite being the least popular of the three and despite having the weakest lead-in issue.  This is of course still a story and a series which is going of greatest interest to those that like the genre, but this issue proves that the genre is not a handicap for a good story.

Story: Daryl Gregory Art: Brent Peeples
Story: 8.3  Art: 8.3 Overall: 8.3  Recommendation: Read

Dynamite provided Graphic Policy with a free copy for review.

 

 

Preview: Legenderry: Green Hornet #1

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Legenderry: Green Hornet #1

Daryl Gregory (w)
Brent Peeples (a)
Joe Benitez, Cedric Poulat, Sergio Fernandez Davila, Ivan Nunes (c)
FC • 32 pages • $3.99 • Teen+
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From the pages of Bill Willingham’s LEGENDERRY, it’s Green Hornet and Kato, goggles-deep in an all-out steampunk gang war! We’ve got airships! Electric velocipedes! Semi-automatic blunderbusses! Each gang and gang lord is weirder than the last, beginning with the child psychopath who starts the war, the adorable and deadly “Little Lord Homicide.” But who’s pulling the boy’s strings?

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Review: Legenderry Green Hornet #1

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LegenderryGH01-Cov-A-BenitezDynamite has a tenuous property on its hands with the Green Hornet.  As a superhero he has really had his day, which was in the 1960s when he competed with Batman on television for popularity.  Most attempts to revive the character into a comic format have been short lived, even if their quality might have been decent enough.  With the recent popularity of steampunk as a sub-genre within science fiction, Dynamite decided on its own League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, albeit with the mostly public domain characters that it was presently publishing or had recently.  Even then the Green Hornet seemed like a strange choice.  The character is after all one that depends on certain modern inventions, and for whom there is usually not as strong a case in steampunk (for instance with the automobile).

With Legenderry Green Hornet all of these limitations seem to of less importance as the setting is able to fill in the gaps which the characters are lacking.  Instead of the signature car, Britt Reid is relegated to horse and buggy, even when such “autocarriages” are available to others that have brought them from the science wonder city.  With the hero able to function as a facsimile of other heroes because of his lack of a connection to much else in popular culture, the remainder of the story is left to take up the slack, and it does so.  Part of what makes this work is the introduction of four separate villains, each with different intentions, but all of them dangerous in their own way.  Some might think that four villains might confuse a story, but here they are presented in a logical way, which allows the story to be told.

There are three miniseries attached to the Legenderry universe, and of this, Red Sonja and Vampirella, this one comes out looking the weakest, though still a readable story.  It may not be extremely noteworth, but it still captures the essence of steampunk which so few series attempt and even fewer manage to do effectively.  It succeeds by not focusing too much on the main heroes, and this results in a fun and entertaining story which fits well within the shared universe.

Story: Daryl Gregory Art: Brent Peeples
Story: 7.7  Art: 7.7 Overall: 7.7  Recommendation: Read

Dynamite provided Graphic Policy with a free copy for review.

Graphic Policy’s Top Comic Picks this Week!

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BitchPlanet03_CoverWednesdays are new comic book day! Each week hundreds of comics are released, and that can be pretty daunting to go over and choose what to buy. That’s where we come in!

We’re bringing back something we haven’t done for a while, what the team thinks. Our contributors are choosing up to five books each week and why they’re choosing the books.

Find out what folks think below, and what comics you should be looking out for this Wednesday.

Brett

Top Pick of the Week: Bitch Planet #3 (Image Comics) – Have you read the first two issues? That explains why this is on the top of my pick pile this week. They’re that good! The series mixes political commentary with a prison exploitation film. It’s awesome.

The Kitchen #4 (Vertigo) – If you’re a fan of Goodfellas, The Godfather, or The Sopranos, you’ll dig this series.

Lady Mechanika #4 (Benitez Productions) – Finally!  A brand new Lady Mechanika issue: the fourth chapter of The Mystery of the Mechanical Corpse. It’s been a long time coming, but I can’t wait. This series used to be the hot property, but massive release delays have chilled it a bit. I expect new material to get folks excited again.

Letter 44 #14 (Oni Press) – The last issue dropped a bomb, and saw something happen that I expected to happen much further down the road. The series which mixes politics with science fiction is about to kick it up a notch.

Secret Identities #1 (Image Comics) – The supergroup known as The Front Line have just invited new hero Crosswind to join them. But what they don’t know is that Crosswind is a mole, sent to learn all their secrets. And the Front Line have LOTS of secrets.

Edward

Top Pick of the Week: Silk #1 (Marvel) – Spider-Woman got off to a bumpy start with her roll-out during Spider-verse, and it remains to be seen if they have learned their lesson.  No matter what the past year has since the rise of the Spider-women, and this series has the potential to grab a lot of that interest.

Burning Fields #2 (BOOM! Studios) – The first issue set up an unconventional setting for a horror, and left the readers with a bit of a cliffhanger.  It will be interesting to see where it goes from there.

Manifest Destiny #13 (Image Comics) – It is impossible to know what to expect from this series, and as the group pushes farther into the unexplored country, they can only find more otherworldly challenges.

Suicide Risk #22 (BOOM! Studios) – This series has taken the genre of superheroes and given it new life, with an intriguing shared universe full of deceit.  It will be interesting to see how the heroes escape the double cross from the previous issue.

Wonder Woman #39 (DC Comics) – After a decent enough start the new run has run into a few problems, but maybe the surprise return of Donna Toy can help that?

Elana

Top Pick of the Week: Lady Killer #1 2nd Printing (Dark Horse) –  The comic sounds like a creative new title with cool looking art and a period accurate logo. “Avon Lady is really a hired killer” is a great concept. How come women never get to be the dark killer anti-hero, amiright?!

Bitch Planet #3 (Image Comics) –  This is the comic for radicals. And women. And those who love them.

Ms. Marvel #12 (Marvel) – The Valentines Day issue is clearly the most adorable thing in the world. Loki comes to shake up Kamala’s love life?! Based on Bruno’s comment in the preview I will now be referring to new Loki as “hipster Viking”, and applying that term loosely to others. Also they talk about gentrification.

She-Hulk #12 (Marvel) – I’ve been dying to know for a year: WHAT IS IN THE BLUE FILE. And I’m about to find out. I am still upset this book has been cancelled. It’s just what Marvel needs. Grumble.

Storm #8 (Marvel) – Storm is a great comic with a classic feel of the character. Storms actions till now have mostly made sense to me but in the last issue she did something wreckless that through me for a loop. I am super eager to learn why!

Johnny

Top Pick of the Week: Ei8ht # 1 (Dark Horse) – I love time travel stories and this series has a lot of cool concepts behind it, particularly the idea of the Meld. The Meld is a dimension in time, and I am interested to see if it is treated as an inbetween place that touches other points in time.

King: Mandrake the Magician #1 (Dynamite Entertainment) – There are no other magic-based comics characters as influential or maybe even as important as Mandrake. There was a period in pop culture history when Mandrake was one of the most well-known and recognizable characters out there, and many modern stage magicians patterned their look and persona on him. Unfortunately most contemporary attempts to re-boot the character have met with lackluster results. However, Dynamite has done a phenomenal job with Flash Gordon, The Phantom and now Mandrake. This series is part of the “King Features” imprint and starts after the events in Kings Watch, but don’t worry, you won’t have to have read that series to enjoy this fresh start. This title is my top pick this week.

Legenderry Green Hornet #1 (Dynamite Entertainment) – Steampunk is hot and Dynamite jumped onto the Steampunk bandwagon last year with Legenderry. The concept was to take classic pulp (and some not so pulp) characters and re-imagine them as a team in a Victorian setting. Now, Dynamite is giving these character’s their own solo turns and this week is The Green Hornet’s turn!

She-Hulk #12 (Marvel) – I love She-Hulk. She is my favorite Marvel character without hesitation. However, I have to admit that I did not collect this particular run, waiting instead for the collection/TPB. For me, Brian Pulido’s art just never connected with me on this series. However, it also seems that the best She-Hulk stories are always the final issues, so this one should be a really good read.

Silk #1 (Marvel) – Although I keep asking why we need another Spider Woman, this character has me intrigued because of her direct connection to Peter Parker and their shared origin. Not only do we get a new character, but we get a strong female character with a (hopefully) a rich back story waiting to be mined.

Nevada

Top Pick of the Week: Cinema Retro #31 (Cinema Retro) – I love retro cinema and Pam Grier as Coffee on the cover just seals the deal.

Fight Like a Girl #3 (Action Lab Entertainment) – I’m intrigued by this and look forward to seeing how Amarosa responds to her new environment and the people she encounters who think they know better than she knows herself. Who are they?

Lone Ranger Vindicated #4 (Dynamite Entertainment) – I’m a fan of Westerns and especially the Lone Ranger so I’ll have to see what happens at the final showdown in Red River.

Nancy Drew Diaries Vol. 4: The Charmed Bracelet and Global Warning (Papercutz) – Nancy’s still quite the go-getter; I just have to drop in to see what she’s up to. This looks like a humdinger.

Twilight Zone #12 (Dynamite Entertainment) – I haven’t paid a visit to the Twilight Zone in a while, plus the retro look of this is quite appealing!