 So, hey guys, welcome to Comic-Con if you're new, make sure you hit the subscribe button and the little bell, comment below, hit the like button and maybe even share with your friends. Good job. We have cookies. And milk. Might be semen. I'm not sure. Yeah. I'm not sure what's going on with John, he hasn't really ever since his shop closed, messages too much so he might be a little down in the dumps about it, I'm not sure. He may be back, I don't know. A few more of his toy reviews scheduled for the oncoming weeks so you will see some more of those and then after that I'm not sure. Your guess is as good as mine so things might change up a little bit here. But today I'm going to be going over a review of Dynamite Comics masks. This is from Chris Robertson, Alex Ross, Dennis Calero. It features the shadow, Green Hornet and Cato, a new Zorro, a web, and Ms. Fury. Let me just go ahead and give you guys a synopsis here. The shadow, the Green Hornet and Cato, the spider. In 1938 these mass vigilantes operated outside the law working independently to strike fear into the hearts of evildoers. But when the corrupt politicians of the Justice Party transform New York into a fascist state run by mobsters, when an oppressive regime grants jackbooted stormtroopers free reign to imprison, extort, and execute the innocent, when the law itself becomes unjust, justice must be served by outlaws. Outnumbered and outgunned, the legendary vigilantes emerge from the shadows to fight. Joined by Zorro, the Green Lama, Ms. Fury, Black Terror, and the Black Bat, nine renowned pulp heroes brought together for the first time in an epic conflict of law versus justice. This actually contains the origin stories of the New Zorro and the Black Bat. Starting off it introduces the Green Hornet and Cato, have traveled to New York and they're met by the shadow, who at first they think is a criminal, you know, but turns out he's a vigilante just like them, only he's not afraid to kill if need be. Then we have the spider, a rich guy who puts on a mask and cape and just goes around and serving justice at night. Zorro is actually the descendant of the original Zorro and he's an artist who, he's come to New York to try and get a job as an artist. He gets stuck by these police stormtroopers. There's a law that, you know, if you're, if you can't prove that you have residents in the city, you're gonna automatically get arrested. I guess the Justice Party is tired of people coming to the city and just taking up space basically, as well as poor people, immigrants, stuff like that, unless you're wealthy or upper middle class, you're going to jail or to a prison camp, possibly even executed. And there he meets former district attorney who ends up becoming the Black Bat due to an accident with his eyes just like with Daredevil, only at first he thinks he's completely blind. But when the lights go out, he can actually see shapes and everything. So it's kind of just like Daredevil's powers, but it affects light rather than sound vibrations. So anyway, these two end up becoming heroes, the Black Bat and the New Zorro. And eventually they're joined by, in fact, here's an entire team shot right here. Yeah, very good read. I discovered this after my wife had bought me the Lone Ranger graphic novel. It's something I've always wanted to see, I've always wanted to see the shadow team up with the Green Hornet and Kato, Zorro. I kind of wish the Phantom would have been included into it, but I can understand why he wasn't. Maybe at some point in the future we'll get a Masks 3, which will include the Phantom. We have Masks 2, which is kind of a time travel story, which I'll be getting all order soon. There are a lot of Star Wars references to it in this. It's shortly after the Phantom meets the Green Hornet and Kato for the first time. Shadow vanishes, and Green Hornet says, how does he do that? And Kato just says, impressive. Most impressive. Well, shout out to Darth Vader, you know, from, I believe it was Empire when he was fighting Luke. And then, of course, calling this new police force Stormtroopers, and just different things like that give quite a few shout outs to Star Wars, even though it takes place way before Star Wars ever even existed back in 1938. I won't spoil the end for you, but you can kind of see it coming from a mile away. They do hint at who's actually in charge of the Justice Party, but it's really good. The artwork is done by Alex Ross, very gritty, very pulpish. I've always liked the Shadow ever since Alec Baldwin played him in the 90s. And what's more is that the Green Hornet and Kato are teaming up with Zoro in this, because the Green Hornet is actually the nephew of the Lone Ranger. During the Lone Ranger's time, there were several stories of the Lone Ranger teaming up with Zoro, so now we get the next generation of the Green Hornet his nephew teaming up with the new Zoro. So that's pretty cool too. See, it says here, collecting the complete Eight Issue miniseries by Chris Robertson, Alex Ross, and Dennis Calero, along with over 70 pages of bonus material, including Chris Robertson's script, with Alex Ross's complete thumbnails for issue number one, character designs and sketches by Alex Ross and Jay Lee, and a complete cover gallery featuring the art of Alex Ross, Jay Lee, Sean Phillips, Francesco, Franca Villa, and many more. Personally, I really like this story. I think it would do very, very well if they were to turn this into a movie. I might, since they currently hold the rights to these characters who are kind of in the public domain, I guess, they really could transform some of their graphic novels here into movies. Like the Lone Ranger, they did a really good job with that. I reviewed it before. They could do, if they were to start off with this to kind of introduce all their heroes, let this be the catalyst for their movie, their film universe. Like the Avengers was for Marvel Entertainment, and I think they could do, I think it could compete with the Avengers. I mean, it wouldn't be hard to surpass DC right now with the DC Cinematic Universe, but I think this could really compete with Marvel Studios, with the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Great job, and if they were to transform this into a movie, then they could follow it up with a new Shadow movie, a new Green Hornet movie, minus Seth Rogen, because he was, I don't understand why they cast him as the Green Hornet, and why they tried to make it a comedy, it was just ridiculous, it was stupid, but that's besides the point. They could also follow it up with a Spider, maybe Spider TV series, Zorro, possibly a new Zorro TV series, just so many, you got the Black Terror, who eventually stars in Project Super Powers, which is again by Dynamite Comics, along with Green Lama, there's just so many characters, they could create a new Phantom movie, some people liked it, some people didn't, I liked Billy Zayna as a Phantom, I liked the Sci-Fi version of Phantom, they updated it quite well, I thought, so they could bring the Phantom back to the Silver Screen, you know, but yeah, I give this an A plus, 10 stars, if you have a chance, grab you a copy, it's Masks by Dynamite Comics, this came out in 2013, yeah it's a few years old, still well worth a read, check it out, check out Masks 2, which I'll be getting soon, and until then, take care guys, and hope to see you back real soon, and once I get the Kings worked out of this new format, work on me again, take care.