Green Lantern #65 & Green Lantern Corps #59
To the casual observer, it may appear I've decided to give up writing on a variety of subjects and become, instead, the David Coleman of an imaginary science fiction war in comics. In actual fact, I am just very excited and surprised by how much fun this inter-title series has been, and had expected 'Blackest Night/Brightest Day' would leave us a bit tired of the multi-coloured Lantern antics. Apart from minor quibbles over how easily Hal & Guy escaped an ice planet and some of Tyler Kirkham's art in this month's GLC, I have to say I haven't been this excited by this franchise since the frenzied anticipation for 'Blackest Night' two years back very nearly led me to buy my first action figure as an adult. Ironically the story really gets going just as we are deprived of Doug Mahnke's absolutely astounding art, and the reaction to Krona's hijacking of the Green Lantern Corps, Oa and the Source Battery is much less cliched than I guessed as I took my first clue from 'GLC 59''s cover, and the ads telling me this storyline will run through June seem to imply the best is yet to come. The scenes with Ganthet, Krona, Kilowog and even Mogo are amazing; the Earth based lanterns first strike against their former Corpsmen are fraught with genuine excitement and peril. The whole thing is just col as fuck, and leaves me wondering if Geoff Johns will ever conceive of something that isn't completely epic in scale agai, the guy's becoming the David Lean of DC Comics arcs. I want to say more, but the truth is, I've been having having big problems with my notebook and only by using Stickykeys am I even able to gush about these latest two episodes of my favourite comics of the moment. I'm going to be well pissed off if they decide to separate these two books before the start of July, I'm getting used to these double whammys of the Green, so I am.
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