The Blue Falcon and Dynomutt #4 // Review
The big guy is all bandaged-up. He’s in pretty serious condition. More or less totally immobile. OK: so it's a pretty bad situation for him, but it's not a very bad situation for a hospital. They see this sort of thing all the time. Tragically, there are people who get seriously injured. There are people who end up in fights. But this is a different situation altogether. The guy's face is covered in bandages. But normally it might be covered in a mask. He's a target in The Blue Falcon and Dynomutt #4. Writer Jimmy Palmiotti and artist Pasquale Qualano continue thier r-imaining of the classic animated Saturday Morning hero with colorist Jorge Sutil.
There are a lot of people who are going to be after this guy. There's no secret that he's been seriously injured. There's no secret that he would be going to a very specific hospital. This sort of river would be traveling around quite quickly. But there are a lot of people who would really like to do some serious harm to him. Personnel have a plan to handle the interest. It might work with a lot of people, but there are quite more than a lot of people who would be looking to harm the Blue Falcon.
Palmiotti outlines are very clever, little encounter. It's the type of thing that would usually be glossed over in the beginning of much longer issue featuring a lot of other moving parts. Two century the entire thing a hero in the hospital in peril is kind of an interesting twist on an old concept. Palmiotti a pretty good job of adapting some of your aspects of the cartoon into a very pleasantly bizarre sort of an action sequence that covers the heart of the issue. It's a clever balance between being proved to the original inspiration behind the character and doing something that's truly new.
It's kind of nice seeing Dynomutt in action. Qualano makes the cyber dog’s goofy Hanna-Barbera robot powers are truly terrifying. It's not an easy thing to do given how goofy it always looked in the cartoons. There's real menace on the page here. And it's nice to see a hero who is always just so very silly and made for TV turn into something truly dark. The idea of having these villains trying to attack him in a hospital while he's essentially incapacitated, it is kind of horrifying in its own way. And this horror is not lost on the artist. It's really valid executed stuff that looks dark without looking like it's trying to be dark.
There isn't much chance of this particular hero, really getting into deep and murky territory with respect to the overall theme of being a masked superhero in a world with super villains. However, it's nice to see the darkness tastefully drawn around a hero like this without making it irretrievably sinister. There's room for darkness that isn't also meant to shock. And that's exactly whatPalmiotti and Qualano are managing with this series.
