From Dynamite's May solicitations:
Kevin Smith's Green Hornet #3
Kevin Smith's Green Hornet #1 Foil Cover
The Green Hornet Strikes #1
Kato Origins #1: Way Of The Ninja
Kevin Smith's Kato #2
The Green Hornet: Year One #2
Those each have at least two covers, some have 5...
I'm just saying, the Dynamite guys are asking retailers to commit to an awful lot of shelf space for something that hasn't even had a first issue yet. What if The Green Hornet bombs? What if readers don't dig on it? Is Dynamite that sure GH (and Kato, of course) is going to be such a success?
Seriously, we're barely three months in and we have not only two spin-off series but also TWO series for the sidekick? Since when did Green Hornet become equal to Batman in popularity???
Then again, it's nice to see someone willing to slug it out with Wolverine for the title of Greatest Number Of Pointless Ancillary Magazines Per Month...
And yes, for the record, I'll give it a fair shot (especially Matt Wagner's Year One...but really, Matt...for this you're not giving us Mage Book 3?!?).
Kevin Smith's Green Hornet #3 Kevin Smith's Green Hornet #1 Foil Cover
The Green Hornet Strikes #1
Kato Origins #1: Way Of The Ninja
Kevin Smith's Kato #2
The Green Hornet: Year One #2
Those each have at least two covers, some have 5...
I'm just saying, the Dynamite guys are asking retailers to commit to an awful lot of shelf space for something that hasn't even had a first issue yet. What if The Green Hornet bombs? What if readers don't dig on it? Is Dynamite that sure GH (and Kato, of course) is going to be such a success?
Seriously, we're barely three months in and we have not only two spin-off series but also TWO series for the sidekick? Since when did Green Hornet become equal to Batman in popularity???
Then again, it's nice to see someone willing to slug it out with Wolverine for the title of Greatest Number Of Pointless Ancillary Magazines Per Month...
And yes, for the record, I'll give it a fair shot (especially Matt Wagner's Year One...but really, Matt...for this you're not giving us Mage Book 3?!?).
*I'M* pretty darned excited about Green Hornet but -- sorry -- I only plan to buy one copy of each issue. I just wanna read the thing, not revisit the multi-collector-cover fiascos of the 1990s.
ReplyDeleteIt's because of the movie. Kevin Smith is taking his rejected movie script and retooling it for Dynamite, and for some reason they decided to follow (from what I hear) NOW's version that tried to make the radio drama, serials, and the TV Show all one timeline. So they're continuing that with the "Year One" and Kato solo stories, I reckon.
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