Green Hornet #16 - Discussion, Spoilers

[Captain Craig]

Read this last night and the book continues to amaze me. The creative team shift maintains the high standard the book started off with on all fronts imo.

This is the first real quirky issue imo but was handled well without coming off as too campy. The Moonbeam and Scowl subplot of the story had me scratching my head and in the end they were still roaming. I guess this means at some point we could hear more from them since they didn't bring Hornet to justice. Which by the way, are we the reader suppossed to know which death Scowl is referring to? I didn't get it from his clues. They are in another town after all. Did I miss/forget a Hornet roadtrip in some prior issues?

I'm quite pleased to see the writing regarding Mulan didn't have her out of bed and back in fighting shape by the next issue. A cop out we sometimes, if not oftentimes, see is even after a serious beating/injury our heroes are back on their feet in no time. It seems to me they are using this time as a way to grow the emotional ties, either friendship/partners/romantic between Britt and Mulan. I'm liking it.

The Red Hand, nice ending. Just what is going on with this character? He is a DE original character, yes? He seems to be more dangerous and clever a foe than the Black Hornet concept which kicked off the series run.

This continues to be my favorite book of the DE stable and I don't say that easily.

[Captain Canuck]

Though I don't buy a lot of books anymore, this is always my first read when I come home with a stack. I can always count on it being a solid start to my lazy afternoon. :D

I was also puzzled about the death since the only person Jr appeared to kill to this point was Black Hornet. I figure we'll find out that he indirectly caused someone else to die or got blamed for something he didn't do.

The only part I wasn't crazy about was Jr running from Scowl. He's supposed to be thought of as a villain anyway. While running from the "hero" might seem appropriate, it should probably be from a hero with a little more credibility. If anything, beating him senseless would probably have been better for his image. I'm not so sure that running for the sake of public safety made a lot sense (though I guess it ws justified by Scowl causing two explosions).

I wonder if Jr's tendency to run into location that make his situation worse might not become a bit of a running gag? First the orphanage towards the end of the first story, now the festival. :p

Looks like Igor Vitorino is the new regular artist. I had no noticed before but he's named as such in the solicitations for issues 18-20.