author: Matt Wagner
name: Wayne
average rating: 4.25
book published: 2013
rating: 3
read at: 2013/09/10
date added: 2013/09/10
shelves: graphic-novels
review:
Green Hornet: Year One tells the origin story of how the Green Hornet met Kato. It's written by Matt Wagner with art by Aaron Campbell. The character of the Green Hornet has been around since the 1930s, but I don't know that much of the origin has been given. I know that Britt Reid is the heir to a newspaper, and that he fights crime alongside Kato as The Green Hornet, and that's about it.
Here we learn of Kato's upbringing in Japan and his time as a soldier during the horrific Nanking Massacre. We see Britt as a driftless wanderer who finds himself trapped in China and running into Kato. Together they make their way back to Chicago, hopefully in time for Britt to see his ailing father.
The action keeps flipping between the present and the past of the two heroes. In the present, they are fighting a corrupt gang as the newly formed duo. The writing is just fine by Matt Wagner and the story and art have a great sense of the period, but I found the constant flipping back and forth to be kind of distracting. At times, the time would shift back or forward for no apparent reason. Still a fun read, though.
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