Her mentor’s just been killed and she’s surrounded by hostile people. The good news is that she’s not there alone. So it’s TWO people who are up against an angry mob. Things are about the get messy for two heroes from the Golden Age in Green Hornet / Miss Fury #1. The writing team of Alex Segura and Henry Barajas join forces to tell a mid-20th century action story that is brought to page and panel by artust Federico Sorressa and colorist Lesley Atlanksy. 

The two masked heroes can handle a little bit of a scuffle, but here they are in a very dangerous place surrounded by people who appear to be very motivated to hurt them. And so things seem somewhat lost until a large black car smashes its way into the room driven by someone that Green Hornet specifically elected not to tell about the whole affair. Thankfully, Kato doesn’t always listen to what GH is telling him to do.

Segura and Brajas allow both title characters to tell the story in alternating narration. The story begins in the midst of a fight and modulates the momentum from there. There’s a nice rhythm to the action that moves across the page quite well as two different crime fighters with two distinctly different personalities interact with the same villain. It manages to feel pretty fresh. It helps that the two characters in question are distinctly unique. Green Hornet is one of those characters Batman was ripped-off from. Miss Fury is kind of a precursor to Catwoman. Segura and Barajas do a good job of keeping them from feeling too much like the characters they inspired.

Sorressa and Atlansky manage a remarkably tight rendering of the script complete with dramatic angles and highly kinetic action. There’s some rather clever framing of the action in layouts that occasionally add to the momentum of the action without weighing it down. The drama is sometimes marred a bit by the graininess of Sorressa’s work, but it’s all clearly felt on the page. Atlansky’s colors keep everything stylishly dark a the story occasionally bursts across the page. The shadows that Atlansky brings to the page add a sense of depth without overpowering everything going on in the foreground. The action is more important than anything else in an issue like this and the art team does a beautiful job with it. 

Though it’s not exactly aspiring to a whole lot of depth, it IS cool to see the two Golden Age heroes pair-up in a story that is rendered for the page with contemporary visual and narrative aesthetics. As often as it’s happened in recent years, it’s honestly still a little weird seeing Green Hornet and Miss Fury in an issue that doesn’t move with a 1940s style underneath dialogue and narration that might have been printed on pulp and placed on a magazine rack. They two characters DO manage to feel appealing enough to maintain their appeal, though. This ISN’T Batman and Catwoman. It’s better. 

Grade: B