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primmiiee's review against another edition
4.0
My favorite Rebirth series, barely beating Superman, mainly because of the characters, Jessica Cruz is the newest Lantern, and yet she's already my favorite (sorry Kyle), also, as someone with anxiety issues like Jessica, I love how Humphries is writing her struggle, I have never root for a character that much to win their fight. Sure, the plot is not that fancy or anything, but it really doesn't need to.
ria_mhrj's review against another edition
4.0
After watching the cancelled-too-soon Green Lantern cartoon, I had my eyes opened to how much potential the world of the lanterns can offer. So I did my research for an entry point in comics (not easy!) and picked this volume to get me started. And what a good start this was!
I love it when heroes need to learn a little something about themselves, and Jessica and Simon were both on terrific journeys on this volume: Jessica needing to conquer her fear and Simon needing to conquer his lone wolf tendencies.
The cartoon featured the red lanterns as chief antagonists so I was pleased to see those rascals back again. This incarnation was pretty evil, will be interesting to see how their nefarious plans unfold.
Looking forward to reading more!
I love it when heroes need to learn a little something about themselves, and Jessica and Simon were both on terrific journeys on this volume: Jessica needing to conquer her fear and Simon needing to conquer his lone wolf tendencies.
The cartoon featured the red lanterns as chief antagonists so I was pleased to see those rascals back again. This incarnation was pretty evil, will be interesting to see how their nefarious plans unfold.
Looking forward to reading more!
iffer's review against another edition
3.0
I like the idea of this series, in theory, but my enjoyment of the title of itself falls short. I like the characters of Baz and Jessica, although it annoys me that they have to have a partner book, as if neither one of them could have enough of a market share to sell the title, so they just had to combine the Muslim dude with the anxious female to get enough buyers >< For some reason boring white dude after boring white dude of Green Lantern is a safer bet? I can shrug and kind of forgive this with the idea that both the characters of Baz and Jessica individually are interesting, but so is exploring their growth and synergy through partnership. Alas, while the book was entertaining enough, I don't think that the characters of the partnership were written well enough to do them justice. I just found myself irritated by both Baz and Jessica and them repeating their sob stories internally throughout the entire first trade due to the too much "telling" and not enough "showing" writing.
fistofmoradin's review against another edition
4.0
It wasn't amazing but I really enjoyed it and it got me wanting to go back and read Blackest Night.
rogue_leader's review against another edition
3.0
Kind of boring, but, I think there's potential. It took a whole volume for these characters to figure stuff out, and that got tedious, but I think it's going places. Having the red lanterns as the antagonists was nice, I'm not a huge fan of Sinestro. The art started out kind of weird, but it grew on me.
jhstack's review against another edition
3.0
A rough start for the rookie Green Lantern duo of Simon and Jessica, but a good start nonetheless. Some of the art could be a bit better, though.
old_tim's review against another edition
3.0
Those Green Lanterns are ok, it's just that those stupid Red Lanterns get as much page time as the new Green ones. And the Red Lanterns are terrible! Let's put them in a time machine & send them back to the 90s where they belong.
http://fedpeaches.blogspot.com/2017/02/straight-outta-90s.html
http://fedpeaches.blogspot.com/2017/02/straight-outta-90s.html
justabookholic's review
3.0
3.5 stars
A fun read that was a good introduction to the new Green Lanterns of sector 2814, Simon Baz and Jessica Cruz. I especially loved Jessica (finally a female POC Green Lantern), she was really relatable and surprisingly funny. The story beings with the two newly minted rookies, who are forced to work together by a grizzly old veteran (Hal Jordan), in order to save the world and possibly the universe. Not the most original concept but it was executed well enough where I wasn't to mad about the lack of innovation. Although this could be considered plot-heavy, the storyline mainly focused on the backstory and character development made by the two protagonists. It was written well enough, were it was easy to empathize with both Simon and Jessica despite their flaws and the mistakes they made. There is some anxiety rep. that I found to be pretty accurate (as someone who has anxiety). Although, the character's anxiety is a lot more severe than mine, it was easy to relate to how the person felt and the portrayal of it was done in a respectful way. Overall, the volume was a good jumping off point for the must-series storyline and despite the cliches within the volume, it was a good read. I plan on continuing with the series.
A fun read that was a good introduction to the new Green Lanterns of sector 2814, Simon Baz and Jessica Cruz. I especially loved Jessica (finally a female POC Green Lantern), she was really relatable and surprisingly funny. The story beings with the two newly minted rookies, who are forced to work together by a grizzly old veteran (Hal Jordan), in order to save the world and possibly the universe. Not the most original concept but it was executed well enough where I wasn't to mad about the lack of innovation. Although this could be considered plot-heavy, the storyline mainly focused on the backstory and character development made by the two protagonists. It was written well enough, were it was easy to empathize with both Simon and Jessica despite their flaws and the mistakes they made. There is some anxiety rep. that I found to be pretty accurate (as someone who has anxiety). Although, the character's anxiety is a lot more severe than mine, it was easy to relate to how the person felt and the portrayal of it was done in a respectful way. Overall, the volume was a good jumping off point for the must-series storyline and despite the cliches within the volume, it was a good read. I plan on continuing with the series.