DC Meets Hanna-Barbera: A Review of “Super Sons / Dynomutt and the Blue Falcon” #1

Writer: Peter J. Tomasi / Artist: Fernando Parasin / DC Comics The Dog Knight Some of the best single issues of 2017 came out of the DC Comics/Looney Toons crossover event. I would go so far to say that a story involving Batman and Elmer Fudd could actually be considered one of the greatest stand-alone stories in the DC universe. I was initially apprehensive about the event; however, I was proven wrong time and time again. So when DC announced a crossover with Hanna-Barbera characters, I simply nodded and thought “this could only be fun.” And Super Sons / Dynomutt and the Blue Falcon was that and a little more. If you’re not familiar with Dynomutt and the Blue Falcon, Tomasi gives a very succinct origin story that catches you up on the basics fairly quickly. Radley Crowne was a technological genius in Big City (thirty-five miles upstate from Gotham) who, on his 12th birthday, got a dog from his parents. His parents were murdered, and he went the way of vigilante superhero except his dog was cybernetically enhanced to become his sidekick. And if you’re thinking that he and Bruce Wayne would get along, you’re right on the money because as Damian explains, Blue Falcon and Batman are in fact associates.

The Super Sons perspective of the story begins with Jon being physically uncomfortable at the funeral of one of his parents’ mentors at the Daily Planet before quickly becoming involved with Damian’s latest adventure. They run into a bruised Dynomutt, who wastes no time telling t…