by Kevin Gaussoin, Editor-in-Chief
Blue Falcon and Dynomutt are no longer Saturday morning jokesters. In this reboot they are born from tragedy and sharpened for vengeance and somehow, it works brilliantly. Nearly fifty years ago, Blue Falcon and Dynomutt leapt into the small screen and we’ve loved their comedic hijinks ever since. But what was their origin? What if it wasn’t a comedy, but a tragedy that launched this beloved duo of crime-fighters?
Official Description:
Secure in their life of luxury in a penthouse high above the streets of Big City, wealthy inventor and art collector Radley Crown and his faithful canine companion have enjoyed a charmed existence. That all changes one fateful day when a vicious gang shatters their complacency. From this tragedy will rise two of the most impressive and vigilant superheroes. In the aftermath, Crown puts to work his inimitable technical abilities to rebuild himself and his four-legged friend into unrivaled instruments of retribution: The Blue Falcon and Dynomutt, Dog Wonder!
Blue Falcon and Dynomutt are Batman mixed with John Wick and we are here for it!
Jimmy Palmiotti asks a bold question: Can nostalgia and darkness share a stage? The answer arrives in one confident issue. He blends grit with legacy and never forgets why we loved the originals. He
takes on what to a lesser writer might be a daunting task: How do you update a goofy pair of cartoon characters so they make sense in a contemporary superhero comic book? We’ve seen this done before with varying degrees of success. We’ve had updates for Space Ghost most recently, but we’ve also seen things like Blue Falcon and Space Ghost’s Hanna Barbera contemporaries: Scooby and the gang get a grim and gritty update by DC Comics.
Just how will Blue Falcon and Dynomutt walk the line between Saturday morning cartoons and The Dark Knight Returns? Well on the art side, Pasquale Qualano show us he can take us from nightmare dark to sunshiny love and romance and right back again to violence and tragedy in one issue. Qualano handles tone perfectly. Moments of nightmare dissolve into sunlit hope and come crashing back into violence in a heartbeat. That swing between tenderness and terror keeps you glued to this entire first issue.
This feels like the start of something more. Maybe these are not the characters we knew, voiced by Gary Owens and Frank Welker anymore. This dialogue, this drama, feels closer to Kevin Conroy and Mark Hamill. Yet somehow these characters still ring true. Real. Resonant. Ready to endure for their next fifty years.
Rating: 
ComicsOnline gives Blue Falcon & Dynomutt #1 – 4 out of 5 legacy rebirths. Blue Falcon & Dynomutt #1 is a bold transformation that trades Saturday morning light comedy for a contemporary realistic reawakening of justice and maybe a bit of vengeance.
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