Filling The Vacuum??

Other comic companies continue to troll Marvel for their lack of a Fantastic Four book:

That's the splash page of this week's Green Hornet '66 Meets The Spirit #3.

That's right, a Dynamite comic about two separate licensed properties is giving us more Fantastic Four than Marvel.

Special kudos to writer Fred Van Lente for using Spirit's Central City as the launching point. Deep knowledge, and deeeeeep trolling.

First DC, and now Dynamite. Keep it coming, other comic companies--maybe public shaming from within the industry will prove more effective than my constant whining.

No, I will never shut up about this.

Manic Monday--snell Reviews The Green Hornet Movie

(Editor's note: Sorry, folks, due to a mix-up here at Slay Monstrobot, instead of snell's review of the Green Hornet movie, we accidentally ran Joseph Goebbels' review of a Spy Smasher movie. Fortunately, snell's opinion of the Green Hornet movie is essentially the same, so we'll roll with it.)

(snell's note: the title was seriously "Spy Smasher Smashes Spies"?? Really? Something tells me that we're going to spend some time later this week investigating this little story...)

Panel from America's Greatest Comics #8 (1943).

Counting Chickens Before The Eggs Are Even Laid, Let Alone Hatched

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?!?).