Green Lantern #2
Writer: Geoff Johns
Pencils: Doug Mahnke
Inks: Christian Alamy and Keith Champagne
This is Green Lantern, starting to pick up the pace. Don't mind me.
Building up suspense from the last issue. Don't mind me.
I feel like how Sinestro feels in this comic - you have to tell us twice to get it. And so this issue tells us multiple times, as it does Hal Jordan, that there is more to being a Green Lantern than just saving the one person, or being the hero.
I swear, there must be more excitement for Johns to write Sinestro than there is for him to write Jordan. Jordan seems very two dimensional in his own book, while Sinestro looks like the character of Green Lantern that Jordan could be. Which, in this case, is a little odd. In Justice League, Green Lantern has been shown to handle multiple emergencies at once, which tells me that Jordan has lost that sense since he first started as GL.
If I try to think about that thought, and tried to put it into any kind of structure with the rest of the GL mythos and how everything since Rebirth happened and it all was in a couple of years I just get a headache. And its a bad one. Like, I got kicked in the head 7 times bad. So I won't think about that.
The art remains good. The story remains good. Its not dull, it has its strong moments. It just feels like this would be better to read in the trade format, or to sit down when I have a bunch of issues and read them all that way. This piecemeal BS just doesn't fill me up.
Based on the solicitations that come out for issue 5 of the series, I will at least keep this up through that issue. However, some of the other books that I have been reading look like they will only be here for the third issue, then its chopping time.
Words: 8/10
Pictures: 8/10
Recommend: The GL Train keeps on rolling!
Buy Next Issue: Chug chug chug chug chug chooooo chooooooo!!!!!!!
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