Tony Bedard: writer
Tyler Kirkham: penciller
Batt: inker
The Solicitation
The sleeper in the sun has awakened! Green Lantern Kyle Rayner and his renegade team of Lanterns are all that stands between the creature Invictus and planetary genocide. But in this battle, how did Fatality and the rest of the Lanterns end up being the bad guys?
Preview
The Story
Someone call the 90's, they have some of those character designs happening again.
Big muscle bound men with huge armor plates and pads in all the wrongs places. More like a two bit villain that doesn't make much sense.
The story is rather simple. All of our main characters are spread out on different planets when Invictus, the villain guy, pops in on the planet to kick some ass and then hop over to the next. Not much is really explained in terms of character with any one in this comic. We learn that Invictus hates the Orange Lantern and things that all of the Lanterns are being ordered by him to attack.
Oh, and we get to see a lot of boob from the Star Sapphire. more on that later.
This seems like a rehash of the fight scene they had a couple of issues ago with the Guardians. They do sometimes work together, but mostly its all on their own.
The cliffhanger at the end is that Bleez is back, now with a proper conscious (but if you aren't following Red Lanterns, this turn to the talking side comes out of left field), and is getting ready to burn the solar system space ship so she can find the other Lanterns.
Boring.
The Art
T & A. Every shot featuring a female has to have it all hang out and they have to be positioned just right in that pose that looks like she is breaking her back. Seriously, who can bend like that?
We have one panel where the Star Sapphire is speaking, but you only see her chest. Talk about awkward.
Don't worry, I won't complain just about that aspect of the art. We also have something that is supposed to be the size of a solar system, but everything around it makes it seem so much smaller than that. It seems more like size of Jupiter and its moons and not something about the size of our actual solar system. I wonder if the definition of solar system is would be what you could use to actually describe how its been done. You can see it in the preview pages where the ships are attacking.
The Cover
I laugh at the pose the villain strikes. He looks like a Care Bear giving the Care Bear stare. But did you see the boobs next to the title? Look, its boobs, it means you have to buy it! Yea Sex Appeal!
Grades
Words: 5/10. Nope. Not for me.
Pictures: 4/10 - I wonder if something other than boobs can be drawn on a female character.
Recommend: Negative. Just wait until next issue, I'm sure that the story has to come back to the good stuff.
Buy Next Issue: This issue just really put a bad taste in my mouth. There is a repetition to the story from the previous arc that is just ticking me off. I'll give it another issue to see if it gets somewhere.
Previous Issues
Green Lantern: New Guardians #5
Green Lantern: New Guardians #4
Three Issue Trial
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