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A review by reanne
Star Trek/Green Lantern: The Spectrum War by Mike Johnson, Ángel Hernández
5.0
(I received a free e-arc of this from the publisher through NetGalley. Review crossposted from my book review blog.)
This is a graphic novel (i.e. a really long comic book), and it is very cool. As soon as I finished the NetGalley e-copy, I went on Amazon and preordered the paperback.
I’m not very familiar with Green Lantern. I saw the movie, I’ve seen some fanart online, and I saw one fanart breakdown of the various Green Lanterns once. I don’t think I’ve ever read a Green Lantern comic. Fortunately, I still didn’t have trouble following along with this graphic novel. I am a huge Trekkie, though. This story takes place in the reboot universe, so you really only need to be familiar with the two reboot movies to be totally caught up on that side of it. I snagged this from NetGalley because I like Star Trek, I like comics in general, and I’m a big, big sucker for crossovers.
The Spectrum War is pretty much everything I want from a comic. It’s got fantastic art, cool action, and some funny lines. It doesn’t have a whole lot in the way of character development or relationships, but that’s okay because it’s not that kind of story. It’s just a fun, awesome action story with lots of cool things that I don’t really want to explain so as not to spoil them. Let’s just say this story makes really excellent use of the crossover. (Yes, Enterprise crewmembers become superheroes, and it is amazing and I love it.)
Most of the questions I had while reading were probably because I’m unfamiliar with the Green Lantern story, such as: Wait, what do all the colors mean again? Why are they all called lanterns even though the green one’s the only one whose mark looks like a lantern? Why does that one lady have a huge, star-shaped hole in her shirt? How does it stay in position against all physics? Where are her nipples, anyway; I’m pretty sure they should be visible in at least some of those shots? But hey: because comic books, I guess.
The only down side to this comic was how things for the Enterprise crew went back to business as usual at the end (as they have to with the tie-in novels, for example). Which is a pity because I really wanted to see more of the superhero versions of the characters. (Although they don’t go totally back to business as usual. There are one or two cool changes which make me wish this story were canon and we’d see these in future movies, because they’re just super, super cool.) (P.S. This book was COOL!)
This is a graphic novel (i.e. a really long comic book), and it is very cool. As soon as I finished the NetGalley e-copy, I went on Amazon and preordered the paperback.
I’m not very familiar with Green Lantern. I saw the movie, I’ve seen some fanart online, and I saw one fanart breakdown of the various Green Lanterns once. I don’t think I’ve ever read a Green Lantern comic. Fortunately, I still didn’t have trouble following along with this graphic novel. I am a huge Trekkie, though. This story takes place in the reboot universe, so you really only need to be familiar with the two reboot movies to be totally caught up on that side of it. I snagged this from NetGalley because I like Star Trek, I like comics in general, and I’m a big, big sucker for crossovers.
The Spectrum War is pretty much everything I want from a comic. It’s got fantastic art, cool action, and some funny lines. It doesn’t have a whole lot in the way of character development or relationships, but that’s okay because it’s not that kind of story. It’s just a fun, awesome action story with lots of cool things that I don’t really want to explain so as not to spoil them. Let’s just say this story makes really excellent use of the crossover. (Yes, Enterprise crewmembers become superheroes, and it is amazing and I love it.)
Most of the questions I had while reading were probably because I’m unfamiliar with the Green Lantern story, such as: Wait, what do all the colors mean again? Why are they all called lanterns even though the green one’s the only one whose mark looks like a lantern? Why does that one lady have a huge, star-shaped hole in her shirt? How does it stay in position against all physics? Where are her nipples, anyway; I’m pretty sure they should be visible in at least some of those shots? But hey: because comic books, I guess.
The only down side to this comic was how things for the Enterprise crew went back to business as usual at the end (as they have to with the tie-in novels, for example). Which is a pity because I really wanted to see more of the superhero versions of the characters. (Although they don’t go totally back to business as usual. There are one or two cool changes which make me wish this story were canon and we’d see these in future movies, because they’re just super, super cool.) (P.S. This book was COOL!)