The 30-Second Review: Kevin Smith’s Green Hornet #1

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Kevin Smith's Green Hornet #1
Dynamite Entertainment

Story: Kevin Smith
Breakdowns: Phil Hester
Pencils: Jonathan Lau

Price: $3.99

Pages Before The First Reference To a George Lucas Movie: 20

In the first issue of the first of five "Green Hornet" series Dynamite's going to launch within the next three months, filmmaker and habitual comic-ruiner Kevin Smith defies all expectations by setting up a story about an aimless 20-something whose girlfriend leaves him because he just can't get his life together, couched in a larger context of lazy racial humor and pop culture references. Even more importantly though is the fact that this is a book with the courage to ask questions of the reader:

The answer, incidentally, is no.