Geoff Johns: writer
Ethan Van Sciver: Artist
Peter Woods: Penciller
Cam Smith: Inker
The Solicitation
• The conclusion of “THE REVENGE OF BLACK HAND”!
• Everything changes here! EVERYTHING!
Preview
Why I Bought It
The end of the first year of the new Green Lantern book. It started out with the idea that Sinestro would be the focus, how will it end? Death? Destruction? Cereal? (Johns loves him some cereal, you know it could happen!)
What I Liked
Yap yap yap is all the Guardians seem to do. Now they finally get down to doing something that will drive the story along and start the next big crossover. I know that they are always portrayed as being big asses, but now they get to actually do something.
Geoff Johns. Need i say more? The man is consistent with his story telling, always moving forward, always favoring to develop the antagonists instead of the protagonists, depending on how you define either. And hey, let's see some hippie inspired Guardians! That was a nice little treat that was surprising, yet expected in some regard. kinda like I was flipping through it and thought - oh yea, of course there would be some of them. If Johns' intent is to develop all the characters around Hal Jordan, he decides that now is the time to look at the Guardians and see if they have a family, or history, or anything resembling a back story. It has some intrigue, but I think I may want to wait for the cliff notes version.
One thing I did catch was the look of Black hand's costume. Anyone else notice its slight resemblance to the Stephanie Brown Batgirl costume? The most noticeable area involves the sides of the costumes that have tat lined look to them.
What I Didn't Like
No cereal! Boo!
As with most of the Green Lantern books, if you look at the story, you can begin to see some cracks that don't make sense in the long run, and might not even be acknowledged later on. When the Guardian slit the throat of the Bearded Guardian Hippie, why wasn't the beard cut?
A big thing that irked me when Hal and Sinestro "died" was the rings. Jordan's ring is supposed to be cut off from the Guardians and just a small spawn of Sinestro's. Then the Indigo Tribe severed that connection. Did that automatically make Hal Jordan's ring his own again? I ask this because how did the ring know that Jordan was the Lantern of 2814? Shouldn't Jordan be wearing a green ring that is autonomous? And then why did they merge back up? Anything after "error" can be explained as "error," but before that needs some answers that we hopefully get to at some point. Right now that story idea has me irked.
So this Chamber of Shadows thing, can it now be teleported into? Does having the power of the First Lantern allow that now?
And this third army thing. Are we really going for an Agent Smith knock off? I laughed and laughed and laughed when I saw that. Seriously, let the Guardians shout out "Me, me, me" and it will make my day.
I will state that Johns is trying to put as many Batman references in Green Lantern as he can right now. I'm going with the crawl out of your own grave moment as a Batman one. Taken from the Grant Morrison run in Batman. It is stretching it a bit, but I'm going there.
Panel to Remember
I think the one panel that really stuck out for me was when Black hand said that "Death comes for everyone." Just the way his smashed out eye looks and the rest of his face is just gruesome and awesome at once.
Quotable
"The first lantern will never escape." - Yea, right. I just found the next plot point where things take a "surprising" turn.
Grades
Words: 7/10 - like the eventual cracks in the first lantern's cage, sometimes plot points get that closer look and they just collapse.
Pictures: 8/10 - It was enjoyable in the art department.
Buy Next Issue: It is Zero Month, it will be done.
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