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Art and cover by DOUG MAHNKE & CHRISTIAN ALAMY
Variant cover by GENE HA
Size: 32 pages
Price: 2.99
This review contains spoilers, click here to read
To quote the philosopher Costanza: "That's it! I'm out!"
This issue was a continuation of everything I've come to not like about Green Lantern since the end of Blackest Night as well as an indication that it's not going to end anytime soon. After an all-too brief acknowledgement of Barry's presence from the last couple of issues, we're back to very crowded and convoluted fights between the Lanterns, Krona and the Entities, and then it all ends very quickly and we're thrust forward in time and told about things that happened in between and then Hal's off again with his new buddies to deal with gods-know what gods-know where and leaves his old buddies scratching their heads and saying "Oh, well." Yes, that was a run-on, and that's what it felt like reading this issue - non-stop motion with hardly a chance to stop and comprehend what was happening.
What worked: while the art was crowded, the individual figure work of Mahnke and Alamay was awesome. Having to draw such disparate characters as Atrocitus and Parallax and Ion and Krona is no easy task, but these guys knock it out of the park. But it was hard at times to appreciate the trees on account of the forest.
What didn't work:
1) Hal and the Green Lantern Universe in general are moving further and further away from the rest of the DCU proper in an almost "X-Men-ification" of the property. The Lanterns telling Batman and Superman that their help won't be needed in dealing with Krona pretty much tells me that Johns is positioning the GLU as a separate entity for the time being. I didn't like it with the X-Men, I don't like it here. Half the point of bringing back characters like Hal and Barry was to have them interact with the rest of the DCU, but now Hal is off doing special Lanterns-only things...again.
2) If you are going to go the X-Men route, can you have a "Hal and friends play baseball" issue at some point soon? Johns acknowledges this problem through Hal's friends asking him point-blank "When's the last time you took off the ring?" For that matter, when's the last time he checked in with Cowgirl? Or his family? Or Coast City? Or Green Arrow (lord knows he needs some help right now)? You would think after Blackest Night there would have been some kind of decompression issue, but we jumped right into the whole Entity kidnapping storyline as prelude to War of the Green Lanterns. Readers need those down-time issues once in a while just like the characters do to de-clutter and re-focus, and there hasn't been one here in a long time. Hell, if BATMAN can have a few panels of down-time, Green Lantern certainly can have an issue.
3) Why would Batman continue to harp on Hal's time as Parallax? Didn't we deal with this back in Rebirth six years ago? And why would Hal let him keep getting away with it? This is the same Hal Jordan who delivered the right hook heard 'round the world when Batman pulled that crap the first time, and since then Bats built OMACs to deal with his supposed friends (which killed a few folks too, if memory serves) and took in the grandson of Ra's Al Ghul. And went through his own Loony-Tunes experience with the whole Black Hand bit. This whole exchange just doesn't ring true for me.
If the buzz on War of the Green Lanterns is as good as or better than it was for Sinestro Corp War, I'll pick it up in trade. But for now, GL #62 is a harbinger of a direction I'm not really fond of for this character, so ta ta for now.
Art: 4 - Very Good
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