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 like any other Green Lantern Corps comic I read back then. Once it’s revealed the team is saving a planet of adorable little creatures, I immediately thought back to the eighties comics.

Of course, being a straightforward DC Universe sci-fi book isn’t a bad thing. Tomasi does fine with all the writing. The action moves at a good pace and none of the characters are poorly written. There are a couple bad lines of dialogue but nothing too bad.

And the Pasarin and Hanna art is good.

Corps is completely unambitious and thoroughly readable.

CREDITS

Willful; writer, Peter J. Tomasi; penciller, Fernando Pasarin; inker, Scott Hanna; colorist, Gabe Eltaeb; letterer, Pat Brosseau; editors, Darren Shan and Brian Cunningham; publisher, DC Comics.

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 it) and they go be tough Green Lanterns and whatnot.

It’s fun. Sure, it’s horrifically violent and space seems to be full of mean aliens… but it’s still fun. Guy and John have comedic adventures. Tomasi writes the dialogue well enough to sell it all—alien declarative stuff, job interview banter, it all works out.

Sure, it’s light but Tomasi does manage to make his leads serious.

Fernando Pasarin’s artwork is great. He does action, space stuff, Earth stuff, talking heads. Corps feels like a traditional, sturdy but not strong DC series from the eighties.

CREDITS

Triumph of the Will; writer, Peter J. Tomasi; penciller, Fernando Pasarin; inker, Scott Hanna; colorist, Gabe Eltaeb; letterer, Pat Brosseau; editors, Darren Shan and Brian Cunningham; publisher, DC Comics.