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tmwebb3's review against another edition
3.0
2.5*. Not terrible, but not sure about how Hal and Carol acted.
shane_tiernan's review against another edition
3.0
This was overlapping with the Lights Out event. It was okay, but Hal Jordan is really annoying. Still some exciting stuff going on and a new beginning.
rhganci's review
2.0
(2.5 stars) It looks like the reboot has finally hit the Green Lantern corner of the New 52, and that reboot, 20 issues tardy, hits very, very hard. Somehow the stakes seem impossibly large and totally game-changing, while at the same time moving so fast--these eight issues are paced with such hurry that none of the huge elements that Venditti puts into play seem particularly well-developed.
Basically, we have a series of plot strands converging to create a new mission for the Green Lantern corps: an ancient villain, a visit to the Source Wall (a familiar element of Green Lantern lore that is always super cool), and a huge, game-changing revelation that will affect all of the lantern corps throughout the galaxy. While those elements all converge at the end of the volume with a solid tease that there is yet something even bigger going on, the story rushes through all of the details, dutifully dropped one after another, to get us to the new conflict. This pacing is really a detraction from the whole volume, because rather than getting a chance to experience and understand--and thereby to react--to these new stakes, we process them intellectually, adopt the concept and then move immediately on to the next piece of the puzzle. While I understood what was happening, I found myself struggling to care about it, and by the end of the volume I had the sense that whatever these changes will bring to the Green Lantern storyline would be kind of a bad idea.
The art is very goodlooking, if uneven at times, but Tan's pencils are detailed and sharp, and thanks to great colors the constructs--lots of machine guns, food platters, chainsaws, fists, axes, and trains--look excellent. The combat sequences are easy to follow and have a lot of interesting dimensions, and a lot of the space travel bits are done with a lot detail in the cosmos itself. The scenes at and around the Source Wall are, as they should be, the best of the volume.
I'll be interested to see where all of this goes, if there's a plan to backtrack for the sake of drama and lore, and what the big plan is for all of this. It's really the future of the whole Green Lantern universe at stake now, rather than a group of characters within a single circumstance, and for me that's where the suspense lies. There's a lot to process here, and as such reading this volume feels a bit more like work than comics should. Where the Green Lanterns go from here will ultimately decide how effective, or lasting, the changes represented here will be.
Basically, we have a series of plot strands converging to create a new mission for the Green Lantern corps: an ancient villain, a visit to the Source Wall (a familiar element of Green Lantern lore that is always super cool), and a huge, game-changing revelation that will affect all of the lantern corps throughout the galaxy. While those elements all converge at the end of the volume with a solid tease that there is yet something even bigger going on, the story rushes through all of the details, dutifully dropped one after another, to get us to the new conflict. This pacing is really a detraction from the whole volume, because rather than getting a chance to experience and understand--and thereby to react--to these new stakes, we process them intellectually, adopt the concept and then move immediately on to the next piece of the puzzle. While I understood what was happening, I found myself struggling to care about it, and by the end of the volume I had the sense that whatever these changes will bring to the Green Lantern storyline would be kind of a bad idea.
The art is very goodlooking, if uneven at times, but Tan's pencils are detailed and sharp, and thanks to great colors the constructs--lots of machine guns, food platters, chainsaws, fists, axes, and trains--look excellent. The combat sequences are easy to follow and have a lot of interesting dimensions, and a lot of the space travel bits are done with a lot detail in the cosmos itself. The scenes at and around the Source Wall are, as they should be, the best of the volume.
I'll be interested to see where all of this goes, if there's a plan to backtrack for the sake of drama and lore, and what the big plan is for all of this. It's really the future of the whole Green Lantern universe at stake now, rather than a group of characters within a single circumstance, and for me that's where the suspense lies. There's a lot to process here, and as such reading this volume feels a bit more like work than comics should. Where the Green Lanterns go from here will ultimately decide how effective, or lasting, the changes represented here will be.
greatnate008's review against another edition
4.0
Hmmm. This book introduces an interesting problem the Lanterns have to deal with. Good story.
calistareads's review against another edition
2.0
I kind of lost interest in this story and it took me time to finish it. Or, maybe I simply need a break from reading every night.
Still, I found this story a little on the tedious side. There is a conclusion to the Lanterns war with Relic and it doesn’t make sense to me. How can light drain. I don’t get it. I guess it’s best to not think too much about it. It was interesting to see the different colors together. Still, I wasn’t really excited about this and I feel like going on will be a chore more than I want to read it. I already got book 5 so I have to give it a go. I’m just not that into this story right now.
I did really enjoy the White Lantern. He was pretty cool. I hope he comes back.
Still, I found this story a little on the tedious side. There is a conclusion to the Lanterns war with Relic and it doesn’t make sense to me. How can light drain. I don’t get it. I guess it’s best to not think too much about it. It was interesting to see the different colors together. Still, I wasn’t really excited about this and I feel like going on will be a chore more than I want to read it. I already got book 5 so I have to give it a go. I’m just not that into this story right now.
I did really enjoy the White Lantern. He was pretty cool. I hope he comes back.
birdmanseven's review against another edition
4.0
This includes some Lights Out issues that don't really make sense without the full story, so make sure you read that whole trade too. The collection is handy because it grabs the smaller stories around that arc. I like the Green Lantern story is going and it's interesting to see Hal take on the elder position.
hobbes199's review against another edition
4.0
Loved it, and it made me want to track down the previous volumes.
Full review here: http://moodycowcooksandbooks.blogspot.co.uk/2014/03/the-good-average-and-aquaman-weekend.html
Full review here: http://moodycowcooksandbooks.blogspot.co.uk/2014/03/the-good-average-and-aquaman-weekend.html
noveladdiction's review against another edition
4.0
This was excellent. I really loved volume 3, and I was all prepared for Volume 4 to be a let down after such a major event. But this book didn't disappoint. Plenty of action, and I simply cannot wait to see what a mess the Green Lanterns get themselves into with this new plan of theirs...
civreader's review against another edition
3.0
2.5*, really.
This is now just a case of exponentially exaggerated peril. Meh. Artwork wasn't bad, though, and it's always visually appealing. But the story is just weak.
This is now just a case of exponentially exaggerated peril. Meh. Artwork wasn't bad, though, and it's always visually appealing. But the story is just weak.
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