Sad to say, the Green Hornet has never been well represented in comic books. Adapted from an unused movie script by Kevin Smith, Dynamite Entertainment’s Green Hornet comic is the worse one ever written. The script wouldn’t have made a good movie. It made a terrible comic. Thankfully, Kevin Smith’s run comes to end with issue #10.
Kevin Smith did away with a Green Hornet with a serious demeanor and a cool sidekick in this series. He kills off Britt Reid and his son takes on the role of the Green Hornet. The idea is borrowed from a Green Hornet comic book series that Now Publications put out 20 years ago. In that series, they also killed off Britt Reid, had a successor done his costume, and introduced a female Kato. The idea was boring then. It’s rancid now.
Throughout the entire series, the book has suffered from a predictable plot, poor characterization, and terrible dialogue. Kevin Smith’s writing style isn’t suited to the Green Hornet at all. The writing is amateurish at best. Issue #10 is no better. It contains even more idiotic statements by Britt Reid II. For example, he brags about killing the man who killed his father by taking off his pants. That’s only fitting because he pulled down his pants and mooned the reporters in the first issue. It’s not the kind of behavior one would expect from the Green Hornet or his successor. The story ends with some moronic comments about Kato being a lesbian.
In a prior issue, the Green Hornet is referred to as a pulp hero. If Kevin Smith had done any research on the character he would have known that the Green Hornet was originally a radio program. There’s an idea: send all of these comic books to a recycling depot where they can be turned back into pulp. The paper can be used to print something decent. Stay away from this book if you are a Green Hornet fan because you won’t like it.
