‘Legenderry: Green Hornet #1’ Comic Review

I’m going to just come right out and say it. I don’t get the whole steampunk thing. Yeah, sometimes it can look cool but it’s never made me go crazy and buy up everything I can that fits that fashion mold. So, maybe I’m not the best guy to be reviewing anything from Dynamite’s Legenderry series. But I am. Deal with it.

In this newest release, we get to meet this universe’s Green Hornet. Normally, the Green Hornet is a rich dude who fights crime with his Asian limo driver, Kato. The Legenderry universe mixes this up by making the Green Hornet a rich dude who fits crime with his Asian carriage driver. Because steampunk.

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To be honest, I nothing this book. I didn’t love it. I didn’t hate it. I nothing it. Daryl Gregory handles the writing and he’s perfectly adept at the task. There isn’t any real depth to the characters, nothing to show their thoughts, desires, or why they’re good or evil. They just are. I’m evil. I kill things. Best watch out. It goes the same for the good guys as well. They’re good. They save people. Fighting crime and all that. It’s possible that since this book takes place after the events of Legenderry: A Steampunk Adventure and I’ve never read it, that I may have already missed this introduction to our characters.

Brent Peeples is our illustrator this time around. His line work reminds me quite a bit of Andy Kubert. Perhaps Brent stylized himself after Kubert, there are worse artists to try and emulate. Characters are well detailed and are easy to tell apart. The backgrounds suffer the most as we often have the most minimal of detail behind our main focus of each panel.

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Overall, I can see how this book will hit all of the right notes for the steampunk crowd. If that’s your gig, then you’ll like this book. If you’re already following any of the other Legenderry titles, then consider picking this one up. For me, it was an okay book. Not much bad to say about it but it’s not making me want to ready anything else in the series.

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