Jonathan LauCritiques

I have to admit I approached this comic rather cautiously. I truly enjoy Hitman games but it is rather difficult to make comic about a professional hitman who during all of the games maybe uttered full 4 pages of text.

But I have to admit it thry truly managed to write the origin story for both 47 and his to-be handler Diana. We follow them from their teens to the time where their paths cross and they start to work for notorious ICA.

We follow them as they fight their inner daemons and tragedies and finally emerge as a cold-blooded assassin (47) and highly manipulative controller (Diana). They are both people that suffered a lot at hands of others and finally found freedom of sorts.

Art is good, sometimes proportions seem to be slightly off but in general art is very clear with both wide-shots and action scenes.

Recommended to fans of thriller and espionage stories.

A pretty bad refresher that doesn't cover much of Agent 47's story or explain how it ties into Hitman 3

I never was into the Green Hornet. I never even gave it much thought. I got this volume and volume 2 as part of a digital bundle (Humble Bundle I think) and gave it a shot. I'm glad I picked it up because it was very entertaining. It would have made a great movie.

An entertaining read with a nice campy pulp feel to it. Readers who may have liked things like the 60's Batman TV show, or The Green Hornet of that era, may enjoy this as well. It keeps that campy feel with some modern sensitivity. This is a comic where the children of the heroes take over the mantles of their parents, and they do so pretty well. The Black Hornet takes on the role of the megalomaniacal villain pretty well. Ok, so the typewriter thing is a bit cheesy, but that is part of the charm. Overall, an amusing comic. It probably would have made a better movie than the recent pap that was recently in theaters.

More expansion upon the Battlestar Galactica universe, tells of a story that you don't hear about on the TV programme, very good graphic novel

Part 2 of the comic adapted from Kevin Smith's fantastic Green Hornet movie script that didn't happen because Smith didn't think he could direct it. I disagree, but because he did drop out, we got Seth Rogen making an absolute mockery of one of my favorite old school radio characters. But at least we have the comic.

This is the culmination of the story started in Volume One where Britt Reid Jr. takes the mantle of the Hornet from his father. It keeps everything light and humorous after all the darkness involved in a hero's origin (following Joss Whedon's mantra of "kill whoever you want, but for God's sake tell a joke") and does a fine job of going from believable to ridiculous comic book action (the typewriter, oh yes, the typewriter).

Definitely glad I read these two back to back. Totally worth it.