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Flashpoint: Abin Sur – The Green Lantern #2 – Review

By: Adam Schlagman (writer), Robson Rocha, Felipe Massafera, Joe Prado (artists), Rod Reis (colorist) The Story: Well, you’re not exactly E.T., but at least you’re not the Borg. The Review: Do you remember how last week I talked about the importance of exposition done right?  How it’s best not to always have characters explaining everything?  [...]

Flashpoint: Abin Sur – The Green Lantern #1 – Review

By: Adam Schlagman (writer), Felipe Massafera (artist), Rod Reis (colorist) The Story: I’m starting to feel, Abin, that you may not be the greatest space pilot ever. The Review: Like the Guardians of the Universe, Abin Sur, former Green Lantern of Sector 2814 (dang, that’s a lot of capitals in one sentence), has been a [...]

Green Lantern #61 – Review

By: Geoff Johns (writer), Doug Mahnke (penciller), Keith Champagne, Christian Alamy, Tom Nguyen, Mark Irwin (inkers), Randy Mayor (colorist) The Story: It’s a rage-fest! Atrocitus hunts the Butcher, his entity of rage, the one that matches his red lantern and red power ring. The Butcher is hungry, seeking to feed on the rage of the [...]

Green Lantern Corps #55 – Review

By: Tony Bedard (writer), Tyler Kirkman (artist), Batt (inker), Nei Ruffino (colors) The Story: The Weaponer, Part Three: The Weaponer of Qward makes cornmeal out of five Green Lanterns. Also, Ganthet pukes up Atrocitus blood, sparking a secret revelation! What’s Good: Visually, Kirkman and Batt have really hit their stride. I loved the art in [...]

Green Lantern #60 – review

By: Geoff Johns (writer), Doug Mahnke (artist), Keith Champagne, Christian Alamy, Doug Mahnke and Shawn Moll (inker) The Story: Parallax has possessed the Flash. That’s a crappy combination for Hal: Fear plus speed force. But then some of his other color-friends show up, as well as that creepy, rag-dressed guardian who’s been hunting then entities! [...]

Green Lantern #58 – Review

By: Geoff Johns (writer), Doug Mahnke (pencils), Christian Alamy, Keith Champagne, Doug Mahnke (inkers), Randy Mayor (colors) The Story: Hope Burns Bright: Atrocitus and Sinestro show up at a prison that has been set on fire by the Butcher. They take care of a bit of business. In the meantime, Hal is still having his [...]

Green Lantern #55 – Review

By: Geoff Johns (writer), Doug Mahnke and Shawn Davis (artist), Christian Alamy, Tom Nguyen, Keith Champagne, Shawn Davis and Doug Mahnke (inks) The Story: The New Guardians, Chapter Three: The Spectre is on the trail of an entity (in the Brightest Day, power ring sense) that is brutally slaughtering livestock. In the meantime, Lobo explodes [...]

Green Lantern Corps #48 – Review

By: Tony Bedard (writer), Ardian Syaf (artist), Vicente Cifuentes (inker) The Story: After ominously meeting in secret with Atrocitus and Guy Gardner, Ganthet tells his fellow guardians that he resigns from being any color of guardian and that he will permanently assume the duties of the green lantern of sector zero. In the meantime, something….odd [...]

Green Lantern #54 – Review

By: Geoff Johns (writer), Doug Mahnke (artist), Christian Alamy, Tom Nguyen, Keith Champagne, Doug Mahnke (inkers), Randy Mayor and Gabe Eltaeb (colorists) The Story: The New Guardians, Chapter Two: Brightest Day creeps out of its shell. Atrocitus is on Earth, searching. Behind the scenes, an old force is assembling the entities for each color of [...]

Green Lantern #53 – Review

By: Geoff Johns (writer), Doug Mahnke (penciller), Christian Alamy, Keith Champagne, Mark Irwin and Doug Mahnke (inkers), Randy Mayor (colorist) The Story: Brightest Day, The New Guardians Chapter One: This story sweeps slowly and deliberately over a wide cast of characters, from locations as diverse as a New Orleans prison, the planet Ryut, Coast City, [...]

Blackest Night #7 – Review

by Geoff Johns (writer), Ivan Reis (pencils), Oclair Albert & Joe Prado (inks), Alex Sinclair (colors), and Nick J. Napolitano (letters) The Story: The nature of the white light of creation stands revealed. What’s Good: How high can a single cliffhanger ending raise the overall experience of an entire issue?  That’s often a question I [...]

Green Lantern #51 – Review

by Geoff Johns (writer), Doug Mahnke (art), Randy Mayor (colors), and Rob Leigh (letters) The Story: Parallax returns to battle the Black Lantern Spectre. What’s Good: This is a really, really fun issue.  A lot of this is thanks to the twists and turns that Johns provides with the emotional spectrum.  One such twist, involving [...]

Green Lantern #50 – Review

By: Geoff Johns (writer), Doug Mahnke (artist), Christian Alamy, Rebecca Buchman, Tom Nguyen, Mark Irwin, Doug Mahnke (inkers) The Story: The newly reinforced armies of light are making good headway against the black lanterns, but black lantern Spectre is still there, and nothing they do will stop him. So it’s time to pull out the [...]

Blackest Night: Tales of the Corps #3 – Review

by Peter J. Tomasi (writer), Chris Samnee, Mike Mayhew (artists), John Kalisz, Andy Troy (colorist), Pat Brosseau (letterer) What a jip! 2 stories only?! What the hell?! If DC’s gonna skimp out us on our expected Lantern stories, they could’ve at least given us 2 compelling stories related to the ongoing event; not two character [...]

Blackest Night: Tales of the Corps #2 – Review

by Geoff Johns & Peter Tomasi (writers), Eddy Barrows, Gene Ha, & Tom Mandrake (pencils and inks), Ruy Jose (inks), Nei Ruffino & Pete Pantazis (colors), Steven Wand & Sal Cipriano (letters) The Story: How Red Lantern Bleez, Star Sapphire Carol Ferris, and Orange Lantern Blume (the giant floating head) ended up in their respective lantern corps. What’s [...]

Green Lantern #37 – Review

By Geoff Johns (writer), Ivan Reis (artist), Oclair Albert & Julio Ferreira (inkers), Nei Ruffino (colors) While Grant Morrison and Brian Michael Bendis fight furiously over whose “Event Story” is the bigger exercise in pretentious masturbation, Geoff Johns quietly toils away on Green Lantern, building on the fantastic mythology he first made famous in “Rebirth” [...]

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