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A review by hypops
Green Lantern, Volume 1: No Fear by Simone Bianchi, Carlos Pacheco, Geoff Johns, Darwyn Cooke, Ethan Van Sciver
3.0
I have yet to find a creative team who lives up to the promise of this character. After fumbling haphazardly for a while through DC’s back catalog, I was pointed in the direction of this run. This first volume is engaging enough to get me through it, but I’ve little interest in continuing my way through the rest of this particular run.
Like so many other folks who have tackled the character, Geoff Johns and his rapidly rotating crew of visual collaborators do better with the patriotic jingoism of Hal Jordan’s backstory than they do with the imaginative possibilities of the ring. And for a ring that can effectively do or become anything, it pretty much just grabs and shoots things.
Perhaps there is so much imaginative promise built into this character and his many other incarnations that maybe it’s simply paralyzing to most creators. And even when those possibilities *are* indulged in (as with Grant Morrison and Liam Sharp’s current take on the character), it loses track of the human story undergirding it.
My search continues for a definitive run.
Like so many other folks who have tackled the character, Geoff Johns and his rapidly rotating crew of visual collaborators do better with the patriotic jingoism of Hal Jordan’s backstory than they do with the imaginative possibilities of the ring. And for a ring that can effectively do or become anything, it pretty much just grabs and shoots things.
Perhaps there is so much imaginative promise built into this character and his many other incarnations that maybe it’s simply paralyzing to most creators. And even when those possibilities *are* indulged in (as with Grant Morrison and Liam Sharp’s current take on the character), it loses track of the human story undergirding it.
My search continues for a definitive run.