OMG, I love Green Lantern. I love Geoff Johns. I love them coloured mood rings. I love it when Hal Jordan and Guy Gardner get together. I especially like surprise appearances from characters that make me say “scha-WEET” out loud. At first, War of the Green Lanterns left me a bit cold, the first few issues in the various cross over titles seemed to tell the same story, in one Kyle Rayner and John Stewart were beating the hell out of each other, in the other the same was happening between Guy Gardner and Hal Jordan, it wasn’t very compelling. Now, some actual shit has hit the fan and amazingly cool stuff happened. It’s awesome.
Green Lantern #65
I’ve got this old issue of Green Lantern where Guy Gardner and Hal Jordan take off their rings to have a fight, the rings are then stolen by a couple of local hicks… You can pretty much imagine what happens next, but I still find the odd couple routine really funny, and this issue is full of it. It starts off slow, like that episode of Power Rangers (the original guys) where they’re deserted on an island without their watches. It shows how much harder life is for them without their rings, which is nice to see for once, GL’s have it too easy.
Then from marooned and powerless on a deserted planet, to flying face first into a shit storm of possessed corps member, Hal and Guy quickly get to the fight. There’s a couple of bangs and plenty of banter on the way, but the really cool bit comes towards the end, and although it should’ve been spoiled by the main cover of Green Lantern Corps #59, I actually picked up the variant cover, so no spoilers for me. Some might say Geoff Johns is milking the different colours concept a bit, but I was absolutely thrilled by how this issue ended, luckily the next one was at hand.
Green Lantern Corps #59
So, however you feel about the corps rings, you can’t fault how well they’ve been set up. As soon as **** put on the **** ring, I thought to myself “I certainly hope they don’t brush over the fact that **** rings make ***** rings ********, so going into battle with a whole load of ***** Lanterns with that, isn’t a very good idea”. Luckily they did, and it was awesome. Also, the massive character reveal was absolutely epic. Every time they show up, I’m always surprised, but it always makes perfect sense for them to, given the premise.
Hopefully, War of the Green Lanterns will keep up this level of excitement. These issues have proven to me there’s still plenty more material to mine from within the different colour corps, and in my opinion it hasn’t gotten old yet. We’d love to know what you thought, comment below or add us on TWITTER and FACEBOOK for lolz.
Oh yeah! Ganthet kicks some ass too.
Joe Innes.
