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Green Lantern #5 – Review

By: Geoff Johns (writer), Doug Mahnke (penciller), Mark Irwin, Keith Champagne, Christian Alamy, Tom Nguyen (inkers), Alex Sinclair & Tony Avina (colorists) The Story: Instead of power rings, maybe it’s best the mob goes back to pitchforks and torches. The Review: It’s a funny thing about people.  We spend a great lot of our time [...]

Green Lantern #4 – Review

By: Geoff Johns (writer), Doug Mahnke (penciller), Christian Alamy & Keith Champagne (inkers), Alex Sinclair (colorist) The Story: Sinestro, you can’t just hand out these power rings like they’re candy! The Review: Oh, come on—seeing Hal get fried in the Yellow Central Battery was all good and fun, but no one thought for one second [...]

Green Lantern #3 – Review

By: Geoff Johns (writer), Doug Mahnke (penciller), Christian Alamy, Keith Champagne, Mark Irwin, Tom Nguyen (inkers), David Baron (colorist) The Story: You know what the Korugans need?  An Occupy movement. The Review: Just as Green Lantern has risen in stature in the last few years to the point where he now has the same iconic [...]

Green Lantern #2 – Review

By: Geoff Johns (writer), Doug Mahnke (penciller), Christian Alamy & Keith Champagne (inkers), David Baron (colorist) The Story: It’s easy to see who’s the bad cop in this pairing. The Review: While comics mostly serve as escapist fiction, that doesn’t mean they can’t bear commentary on real life as well.  A lot of writers seem [...]

Green Lantern #1 – Review

By: Geoff Johns (writer), Doug Mahnke (penciller), Christian Alamy & Tom Nguyen (inkers), David Baron (colorist) The Story: Sinestro, to the rescue!  For once, I’m actually not kidding you. The Review: One of the few titles sticking to its guns and continuity post-relaunch is Green Lantern, so we can safely start by talking about what [...]

Green Lantern #67 – Review

By: Geoff Johns (writer), Doug Mahnke (penciller), Christian Alamy, Keith Champagne, Tom Nguyen, Mark Irwin (inkers), Gabe Eltaeb & Randy Mayor (colorists) The Story: This makes me want to break out into a chorus of, “Feelings…woah, woah, woah…” The Review: With all this Flashpoint business going on, War of the Green Lanterns has gotten kind [...]

Green Lantern #66 – Review

By: Geoff Johns (writer), Doug Mahnke (penciller), Keith Champagne, Christian Alamy, Mark Irwin, Tom Nguyen (inkers), Randy Mayor (colorist) The Story: Little blue midgets have never seemed so frightening.  No, not the Smurfs. The Review: The Guardians of the Universe have had a large role in the Green Lantern mythos since the Silver Age, and [...]

Green Lantern #65 – Review

By: Geoff Johns (writer), Doug Mahnke (pencils), Keith Champagne, Christian Alamy, Mark Irwin, Mick Gray, Tom Nguyen (inkers), Randy Major (colors) The Story: War of the Green Lanterns, Part Four: All their allies have been turned to serve the enemy. Their powers are gone. They are being hunted. Times are tough if you’re Hal Jordan [...]

Green Lantern #64 – Review

By: Geoff Johns (writer), Doug Mahnke (pencils), Christian Alamy, Keith Champagne, Mark Irwin, Tom Nguyen (inks), Randy Mayor (colors) The Story: War of the Green Lanterns, Part One: Krona has left the rebellious Green Lantern Hal Jordan with the six other leaders of the other rings corps on the planet Ryut with the Book of [...]

Green Lantern #63 – Review

By: Geoff Johns (writer), Ed Benes and Ardian Syaf (pencils), Ed Benes, Rob Hunter, Vicente Cifuentes (inks), Randy Major (colors) The Story: Hal Jordan, with a few allies, is trying sort some personal stuff out. Krona, the batty Oan who has been in solitary confinement since pretty close to the birth of the universe, blasts [...]

Green Lantern #62 – Review

By: Geoff Johns (writer), Doug Mahnke (pencils), Keith Champagne, Christian Alamy, Tom Nguyen (inkers), Randy Major (colors) The Story: The New Guardians, Conclusion: Hal goes toe to toe with Krona, the nutcase Oan who has spent most of the history of the universe imprisoned. Hal doesn’t do as well as he hoped. What’s Good: I [...]

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 #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 #59 – Review

By: Geoff Johns (writer), Doug Mahnke (pencils), Christian Alamy, Keith Champagne, Doug Mahnke (inkers), Randy Mayor and Gabe Eltaeb (colorists) What’s Good: It is my opinion that Johns continues to use the main Green Lantern book to unravel the implications of Blackest Night and Brightest Day. Yes, yes, I know there’s a whole series called [...]

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 #57 – Review

By: Geoff Johns (writer), Doug Mahnke (artist), Christian Alamy, Tom Nguyen, Keith Champagne, Doug Mahnke (inkers), Randy Major with Gabe Eltaeb (colors) The Story: What Happens in Las Vegas: Hector Hammond has swallowed the orange power lantern. The main power battery for the Star Sapphires is petering out. Carol Ferris has to trap the purple [...]

Green Lantern #56 – Review

By: Geoff Johns (writer), Doug Mahnke (pencils), Christian Alamy, Tom Nguyen, Keith Champagne and Doug Mahnke (inkers) The Story: The New Guardians, Chapter Four: A really creepy Hector Hammond is sprung from prison by an even creepier former guardian. In the meantime, Hal is trying to deal with Larfleeze, who is discovering the true meaning [...]

Green Lantern #56 – Review

By: Geoff Johns (writer), Doug Mahnke (pencils), Christian Alamy, Tom Nguyen, Keith Champagne and Doug Mahnke (inkers) The Story: The New Guardians, Chapter Four: A really creepy Hector Hammond is sprung from prison by an even creepier former guardian. In the meantime, Hal is trying to deal with Larfleeze, who is discovering the true meaning [...]

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 #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, [...]

Green Lantern #52 – Review

By: Geoff Johns (writer), Doug Mahnke (penciller), Christian Alamy, Doug Mahnke, Rebecca Buchman and Keith Champagne (inkers) The Story: This is it! The endgame of Blackest Night. John Stewart leads an army of light against giant Black Lantern planet as it descends on the Earth. In the meantime, Hal Jordan is on Earth, fighting Nekron [...]

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 [...]

Green Lantern #48 – Review

By Geoff Johns (writer), Doug Mahnke (artist) The Story: The delegates of each lantern corps finally come together on Okaara.  As they all work through their differences in order to confront the Black Lanterns, secrets of Atrocitus’ past come to light. What’s Good: Johns finally delivers on the promise of the multi-colored lantern corps by [...]

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