Tony Bedard: writer
Tyler Kirkham: penciller
Batt: inker
The Solicitation
Betrayed by Sinestro! Arkillo, the most loyal of all the yellow ring wielders, has returned to Korugar only to find the Sinestro Corps is no more! The members of the corps have been rounded up and executed, and the yellow power battery is gone – all at Sinestro's command! Armed with the dwindling energy of a ring he can no longer recharge, it's a race against time as Arkillo slaughters his way toward a desperate goal: the birth of a new type of yellow power ring!
Preview
The Comic
Well, let's sweep Invictus under the rug for now. We got other things to focus on, like what happens when Akrillo finds out that almost no other Yellow Lanterns are around.
There has to be such a balance with this book that makes me feel very uneasy. It has to take everything else that is going on with the other books that it has a hard time trying to find its own voice. We literally have lanterns flying off away from the team and back together and it just makes for much story confusion.
Indigo Lantern flies off to deal with stuff going on in the main Green Lantern book. Akrillo flies off to react to what happened in the main Green Lantern book. Everyone else flies off to recharge their rings. Bleez decides to stay with Kyle and head back to his apartment to get his ring recharged, which is funny because since he is no longer a Green Lantern you would think they would recall those things like his ring and lantern.
Star Sapphire goes back to recharge her ring, only to find out that her leaders know about the Orrery and the black hole that it emerged from. Wait, what? Are they trying to pull a fast one on them like how the Guardians do with the lanterns? We know about this, but we decided not to tell you. What BS.
The focus on the book is Akrillo and what he does. He heads back to Korugar in order to find out what happened to the Sinestro Corps. He stops the Weaponer, the guy who forged the yellow rings, about to be executed. Akrillo saves him and they escape to Weaponer's hideout where he has built a Yellow Lantern that is free of Sinestro's control. But, the lantern is unstable. So Akrillo powers up and declares the Sinestro Corps to be his own Corps.
Of course I have many issues with this story. Everything seems borrowed or already used. We already have Hal Jordan with an unstable ring that Sinestro gave him that isn't working right, so now Akrillo has one. We have the situation with the Star Sapphire I already gave, and we have Bleez being able to talk and no one wanting to take the time to find out how or why.
Hell, if everything here is borrowed from another book, and the only original stuff was the Invictus thing from the past couple of issues that was just weak, what is the point of this book? 8 issues in and the book still feels like it is trying to find its place.
The Art
T & A when it isn't necessary. Weird angles at times. I don't know, I just really wasn't impressed at all. There wasn't anything that really stuck out for me for this book when looking at the art. Its nothing that the artist hasn't done before, and nothing that was really too impressive.
The Cover
It would have been cool to see this scene on the inside, but those laser whip things only appear for a couple of panels and don't wrap around anything. Feels like a misplaced panel from the inside of the book that I just am not a fan of.
Grades
Words: 4/10
Pictures: 5/10
Recommend: Nah.
Buy Next Issue: Nope. There have been too many ups and downs with the book and quite frankly I just don't care about anyone in this book anymore.
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