Green Hornet / Miss Fury #2
Fury has someone inverted over West Adams Street. He’s not talking. It’s frustrating, but it means that she has to hang him out over the. street to try to get the information that she’s looking for. She’s not alone, though. There’s someone else there as well. He’s dressed in green and he’s looking for the same answers that she is in Green Hornet / Miss Fury #2. The writing team of Alex Segura and Henry Barajas continue a crossover featuring the two crime fighters from the Golden Age. The action is brought to the page by artist Federico Sorressa and colorist Lesley Atlansky. It might feel a little bit stiff in places, but there’s a great deal of intensity as the series makes it through its second issue.
Someone is killing masked men. The Green Hornet has been called-in to the morgue to take a look at the body of a man. The corpse in question was found floating in the river. The gentleman in question was named John Doyle, but he’s better-known as The Zebra. He was a masked crime fighter. There has been a string of murders of masked crimefighters and Kato has gone missing, which means that all Green Hornet can work with is someone who he doesn’t know all that well.
Segura and Barajas weave the two narratives together quite well. Neither Fury nor Hornet get too much time to dominate the issue. They’re both exploring the murder mystery from different directions, which allows the two characters to shine in different ways. The 1940s era feels very lived-in throughout the book. There’s always that desire to over-render the period in a retro series like this, but Segura and Barajas keept the background in the background as the series continues.
For the most part, the acton hits the page in a very coherent fashion that feels remarkably coherent. Every now and then a punch might hit the page in an awkward direction that doesn’t quite ake sense, but for the most part, it’s all quite fluid as one moment becomes the next and time is of the essence. Soressa and Atlansky frame it all on the page quite well for the most part. Some of the drama might feel a bit over-done in places, but there’s really no question that it’s all more or less perfectly in line as things progress into the third issue.
There’s a pleasant kind of familiarity about everything that seems to be flowing across the page quite well throughout the series thus far. The story itself doesn’t necessarily feel like it’s doing anything terribly new, but Sgura, Barajas and company make a strong case for the distinctive individual elements that make this particular pair of crimefighters distinctive. It would be nice to get a bit more of a closer look at Miss Fury at some point in the future Dynamite Comics has done a pretty good job with that over the years, but there simply isn’t enough room to really get into her frame of mind in the confines of a crossover series like this.
