Category: Green Lantern
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You know, Dale Eaglesham does do a great job on Sinestro. I wouldn’t subject my brain to another issue of this prattling, but Eaglesham’s art is really good. Writer Cullen Bunn has the task of bringing Sinestro back from a self-imposed exile. For all the endless expository narration from Sinestro, I’m unclear why exactly he’s…
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The saddest thing about Green Lantern has to be the editing. Stuart Baird, amazing action editor of the last twenty or so years, cut together this malarky. It’s not Baird’s fault, exactly, how ugly Lantern plays—cinematographer Dion Beebe’s responsible for the shots not matching in lighting and Campbell composed them. But Baird’s always had a…
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During the opening scene of this issue, Kyle Rayner–imbued with the powers of all the rings… well, not really but Bedard misses that plot hole–starts spewing like a Red Lantern. He spews while speaking Bedard’s dialogue, which proves a nice metaphor for the issue in general and Bedard’s writing in particular. Obviously, not all of…
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Geraldo Borges is the “guest” penciller. I’m not sure he’s particularly welcome. He’s not terrible, but he’s not good either. The issue is all action, taking place over a couple hours at most. Guy and John are in trouble, they call for backup, the backup Lanterns bicker then come and save the day. Then the…
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Once again, Sinestro is the best thing about Green Lantern. Johns really ought to consider redoing the book with Sinestro as the lead and Hal Jordan as his flunky. Maybe because of the movie (and Ryan Reynolds playing the role), it’s hard to take Hal seriously. Maybe it’s just because Johns makes Hal out to…
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This issue is something special. It’s Benes objectifying a resurrected rape and murder victim. At first, I thought it was just his impulse, but then the issue moved on and it became clear Benes does it on purpose. It’s a little creepy. The new DC seems to be a bunch of creators you wouldn’t leave…
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Yay for terribly written exposition flashbacks. Yay! See, I’m trying to be positive about New Guardians and not laugh at Kirkham’s hair on Kyle Rayner. I mean, it’s some silly hair. But probably not as silly as his three day stubble… because Kyle’s a young, hip rebel. Though I do like the new costume design…
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All Tomasi can come up with for villains in the Green Lantern Crops is intergalactic ninjas. They have some mystery leader and teleporting powers, but they’re really just ninjas. It makes the comic feel like it’s from the eighties. Maybe it also feels like its from the eighties because it all of a sudden reads…
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Yuck to Johns’s pacing. This issue features Sinestro showing off to Hal Jordan how much of a bad Lantern Jordan’s always been. It’s lots and lots of talking, which the occasional action sequence or something ring-related. For the most part, Mahnke and the inkers do a fine job. There’s sci-fi action, there are monsters, there’s…
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Wow, what a bargain. Nineteen pages of story. I think Benes is suited for dumb science fiction. I mean, Red Lanterns is pretty dumb. Milligan introduces about fifteen proper nouns this issue and none of them are consequential. Worse, he doesn’t even expect the reader to remember them. He’s completely non-committal with the whole thing,…
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New Guardians opens in flashback. Only no one mentions it’s in flashback, which made me think I was going to suffer through Tony Bedard relaunching Kyle Rayner. Instead, I just had to suffer through Bedard’s attempt at writing a female character. Actually, Bedard’s got a strange undercurrent of misogyny in the comic. As opposed to…
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Damn, I want to hang out with Guy Gardner and John Stewart. Seriously. Green Lantern Corps reminds me of a TV drama with some mediocre supporting players and a pair of awesome leads. Peter J. Tomasi writes the pair quite well together. They hang out on a satellite together (not that there’s anything wrong with…
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Red Lanterns is DC’s family-friendly title, isn’t it? I’d sort of heard of the Red Lanterns, but I had no idea they all looked creepy (as creepy as Ed Benes can draw—he’s pretty slick for a sci-fi comic with horror elements). I also didn’t know they hung out near a pool of blood and fought…
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I thought Sinestro had a big silly head. Doug Mahnke gives him a big forehead, but no big head. Not being a Green Lantern reader, this issue sort of confuses me. But what frustrates me is Geoff Johns. He can plot out the issue, get all the beats down, even write good dialogue half the…
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I’ve avoided Ron Marz’s Green Lantern comics. I’ve always assumed Kyle Rayner is a tool and the comics would be bad. If this Retroactive is any indication, I’ve been right all along. Though it’s mildly amusing to think about what Marz does with the character–he’s turned an eighties Spider-Man comic (a poorly written one) into…
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Let me see if I can summarize the dumbest thing about this issue. DC hired Denny O’Neil to write a flashback to seventies Green Lantern—back when it was Green Lantern/Green Arrow, they let O’Neil turn in a script mostly about Green Arrow, then they hired Mike Grell to illustrate it—Grell being known as a Arrow,…
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