Tony Bedard: writer
Tyler Kirkham: penciller
Batt: inker
The Solicitation
A spacecraft the size of a solar system is on a collision course with Oa, home of the Guardians! As the AWOL Green Lantern Kyle Rayner and members of each of the different Corps make their way to the alien vessel, deep within the ship – within the very sun that serves as the craft's fuel source – the creature known as Seraphon stirs. A major new threat to the DC Universe debuts here!
Preview
Preview
The Story
Pretty close to the solicitation. Our band of Lanterns descend down to the planets looking to see what is going on with them. We catch up with Bleez and get to see the New Guardians version of her being thrown into the Crimson Blood Pool of Mental Regeneration. It matches close to what happens in Red Lanterns, with Atrocitus giving some additional details. This more or less gives readers of New Guardians the chance to understand what happened a bit in New Guardians, and kindly let's us know where New Guardian's timeline matches up with Red Lanterns (shortly before issue #3).
The planets that our team splits up to investigate turn out to be familiar in some way to them all. One was were the Star Sapphire was trained. Another houses the Tamarians, an alien race that Starfire (from Red Hood and the Outlaws) comes from. And on the third, we find that they are frightened by the beast, which turns out to be a statue of Larfleeze.
All in all, this was a nice set up to start to dig into the mystery of what the giant solar system sized space ship is about. We got some good character moments that set up everything nicely, showed some points of future conflicts, and throws a couple of good mysteries in there as well. Not too shabby.
The Art
Nice to see that we are back down to one artist on the book. I like it, entertaining stuff here. If there is one comment I could make, its the little bits of cheesecake with the boobs shots that are put in. Also, there is a little inconsistency for how Starfire is dressed compared to the Tamarians in this comic. Maybe that could be explained a bit next issue if they are supposed to be the same place, but if not, then there was obviously some mis-communication there between the look of the costumes.
The Cover
This cover is more thematic than anything. The people are all being sucked into some sort of black hole looking thing. I would rather give the space ship some credit here and shrink the characters down to a colored flame look or something like that. Thankfully, there are no missing lanterns on the cover. The Red Lantern isn't here because she isn't being sucked into the planets and investigation what is going on, so it makes sense to me.
Grades
Words: 8/10 - nice setting up, let's see some payoff next issue.
Pictures: 7/10
Recommend: Nice starting point if you are familiar with the characters, but definitely not a good place to come in knowing nothing about the Lantern Corps.
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Previous Issues
Green Lantern: New Guardians #4
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