GREEN LANTERN #42

Review by: TheNextChampion

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Story: 2 - Average
Art: 1 - Poor
 

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  1. flapjaxx says:
    June 24, 2009 at 7:53 pm

    It’s good to see some dissent on Green Lantern–just for a change. I read about the first 27 issues of this series, thru the Sinestro Corps crossover–all over a span of like one week last summer. I needed to see what all the adoration was about. I found the series…okay. Kinda good, but just kinda. I always think about going back to it, but the insane amount of praise for Blackest Night actually turns me off and makes me less inclined to read Green Lantern again. Because I heard the hype for the series before, and it turn out to be just okay. And everything I hear about Blackest Night is just so…without content. "I’m soooo excited for Blackest Night!!!!!" They never really say WHY. Conversely, your review actually makes me a little more inclined to read Green Lantern again, just to see with interest how far the series falls from the mark of being the perfect-rating critical darling others still say it is. I mean, I still think it’s probably a pretty good book overall.

  2. Avatar photo PraxJarvin says:
    June 24, 2009 at 9:03 pm

    Was this arc great? No. However, I thought it was interesting. If you don’t like the execution that’s fine. However, I take issue with your not liking the Stewart/Fatality scene. Not knowing a character is going to happen in a serial medium. If you don’t like having to deal with that, get out now. As well, everything about her (one-note) character is explained over the two issues she appears. Quite frankly, this is the most interesting thing anyone has done with the character since Ron Marz introduced her. Granted, it’s hard to deal with a character introduced to deal with an oft-forgotten piece of continuity from "Cosmic Odyssey."

    Still, appreciate your negative review. Like Flapjaxx, I think it’s good that people are being cirtical of the book. Unlike Flapjaxx, I don’t think every issue of a book needs to be mind-blowing, medium changing or deep. Sometimes it’s nice to have a book I can turn to and enjoy for being fun action.

  3. Avatar photo TheNextChampion says:
    June 24, 2009 at 9:37 pm

    @Prax: I understand there are some characters used in a comic I dont know about. It happens occassionally with Deadpool and Incredible Herc time to time. But focusing on these two characters, who have no business doing in a Hal Jordan comic, really burns me. I understand it’s called ‘Green Lantern’ and not ‘Hal Jordan: Green Lantern’. But having Johns suddenly introduce these two last issue (I believe that or the one before, and very little mind you) and try to make us care about them. It was a bad attempt.

  4. Avatar photo PraxJarvin says:
    June 24, 2009 at 10:09 pm

    @TNC I’m unsure what you mean by John Stewart having no place in the book? He’s Hal Jordan’s partner – The Crocket to his Tubbs. It is not as if Stewart randomly started appearing in the book last issue. He’s been in the book since Issue 1 of this volume (and the last volume!). Obviously Johns is trying to set something up with the Fatality/Stewart thing. While it may be "boring" to you, it could very possibly play a big part in goings on in Blackest Night. As for the Ash/Saarek epilogue, the characters were both "introduced" (though, Ash made his first appearance way back when in Green Lantern Quarterly) in the Rage of the Red Lanterns arc where they were dispatched to find the corpse. I don’t really understand your dislike of… continuing plot threads introduced earlier in the book, I guess.

  5. Avatar photo TheNextChampion says:
    June 24, 2009 at 10:30 pm

    @Prax: Looking back, yes he does use Stewart in here….to a small degree. I just think a plot focusing on Agent Orange and the Guardians politics; this Stewart C plot really has no place here. Why not in GLC? Case that’s really where they are focusing on the Star Sapphires.

  6. Avatar photo PraxJarvin says:
    June 24, 2009 at 10:41 pm

    @TNC This is true, but that’s sort of the thing with running the two titles. GLC was pitched as being the place for Kyle, Guy and all the other 7200 lanterns. While it’s nice to have GL be the Hal-centric book, plot and story needs for Blackest Night have necessitated expanding the scope of GL to be more about Hal’s relationship with the Corps. And John’s role in the book has certainly shifted a lot, to being negligible but the book as pitched was going to be the GL book to see Stewart in. He’s Earth’s GL.2. The best idea was to have Stewart be the de factor JLA Green Lantern. He had his "own" book and added (much needed) diversity to the team.

    Alas. Good discussion. I’m shocked no one mentioned the one panel cut away of Sinestro. That has pretty big implications. 

  7. Avatar photo TheNextChampion says:
    June 24, 2009 at 10:57 pm

    @Prax: With BN coming up, yes more then just Hal should be focused on here. But John Stewart is not the 2nd Earth’s GL in my mind. Guy Gardner comes to mind immediately to me after Hal Jordan. But you stated my point: ‘GL is a Hal-centric book and it’s even more so with him being the focial point for the event’. The other stories should have Sinestro, or just on the other Corp colors in general with the event coming.

    If there wasnt an event coming, then the Stewart plotline would be fine with me. Now, not so much. Heck how important will this interaction be in the long run? I doubt very much. Also, yes I was intrigued with the panel of Jordan seeing Sintestro in the future. This could mean many things. Shame it was one of 3 minor things to like about this comic.

  8. Avatar photo PraxJarvin says:
    June 24, 2009 at 11:08 pm

    Well, while you may consider Guy Earth’s Second Lantern he is not. Stewart has been stated as such since the end of Rebirth. Guy is an honor lantern assigned to Oa. And I think during Sinestro Corps War he is considered Lantern 2814.3 (Where as John is 2814.2) While he appeared before John Stewart, it was only as a "What If" story. He didn’t become a lantern until after Stewart. And for the Guardians, seniority counts. 😉 

  9. Avatar photo TheNextChampion says:
    June 24, 2009 at 11:42 pm

    @Prax: Oh yeah well…..up your face! 🙂

    Seriously though; this Gardner/Stewart debate doesnt help the argument if this was a good comic or not lol

  10. Avatar photo JesTr says:
    June 25, 2009 at 8:27 am

    I have to agree with Prax on this one.  Stewart is in Green Lantern because it follows the Sector 2814 GLs, which are Jordan and Stewart.  At least that was the point of the book until Blackest Night.  The Green Lantern Corp follows the Earth Honor Guard Kyle and Guy and the rest of the GL Corps.  I do agree wth TNC that the GLC book is better than GL by far.

  11. Avatar photo Unoob says:
    June 25, 2009 at 8:50 am

    Its just my opinion but I think u might be suffering from Hype-atitus Champ. U hear all about something so much that when u get it, you sit there skeptically. open it, and say "Go ahead. Live up to the hype. Thrill me." I dont know, I could be wrong, but I think I might be a little right.

    I loved this book. I love everything about Blackest Night. Call me a fanboy if u must, but I know every time I read an entry of this opus, I sit there bathing in the afterglow when I am done. 

    You didnt feel any neat-o factor when Johns fed us that panel of Sinestro saying "I cant do this without you."? It didnt make your mind try and think to what may possibly come up to make that panel happen? 

    The reveal of the Black Lantern battery didnt hit you like the first time u saw the Death Star?

    This is summer fun comics. Big sprawling, huge explosion, big melodrama, pump your fist, kind of stuff.

    I am by NO MEANS invalidating your opinion, I am just trying to maybe change the paradigm of how or what you are expecting from this story.

    Either way. Keep on rocking with your bad self.

  12. Avatar photo Unoob says:
    June 25, 2009 at 9:10 am

    Oops. Looks like you did appreciate the Sinestro thing. What? U think I am gonna read EVERY LITTLE THING before I post?

  13. Avatar photo TheNextChampion says:
    June 25, 2009 at 1:03 pm

    @Unoob: Your required to read everything!! 🙂

    With the Power Battery ending, no I didnt find it all that shocking or great. We’ve seen what the battery looks like already and the fact that it has arms now….is just stupid and funny. I’m guessing that the dead body of the Anti-Monitor is going to be used for more then just a battery.

    So that’s two straight GL events with Anti-Monitor as one of the main baddies. *yawn*

  14. Avatar photo PraxJarvin says:
    June 25, 2009 at 3:41 pm

    @TNC You know, this is the GL events to end all events, I have the strangest feeling Krona is involved somehow. And Johns is a continuity master. So, I would get ready to see a who’s who of the Green Lantern Rogues Gallery during this event – live and dead. 

  15. Avatar photo TheNextChampion says:
    June 25, 2009 at 5:21 pm

    @Prax: I’m still looking forward to the event, cause it’s a great idea. But Johns coasting on this arc almost made me think twice of picking it up. Thank god for Tomasi and GLC.

  16. Avatar photo Unoob says:
    June 26, 2009 at 11:29 am

    Hey Champ. I have been reading your reviews. Gimme a shout at noob@newtocomics.com

     

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