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GREEN LANTERN #48


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  1. Avatar photo stuclach says:
    November 23, 2009 at 3:56 pm

    Saint Walker vs. Sinestro.  It is a good thing Saint is such a religious man.

  2. Avatar photo vadamowens says:
    November 23, 2009 at 4:12 pm

    I’m thinking St. Walker will need a little more than religion to assist him against Sinestro.

  3. Avatar photo TheNextChampion says:
    November 23, 2009 at 4:16 pm

    Nice. Haven’t seen Saint Walker in awhile, but him fighting Sinestro? Could be epic!

  4. Avatar photo drakedangerz says:
    November 23, 2009 at 4:25 pm

    I like the idea of that cover, but it seems really…compressed.  Like someone took Saint Walker and smushed him a bit.  Oh, and I hope he punches Sinestro in the face.

  5. Avatar photo AmirCat says:
    November 23, 2009 at 4:42 pm

    awww birdies like Saint Walker.

  6. Avatar photo JumpingJupiter says:
    November 23, 2009 at 4:42 pm

    BN, got me reading this book! Good job, people in charge of taking my money!

  7. Avatar photo PraxJarvin says:
    November 23, 2009 at 4:43 pm

    In my head, Saint Walker is doing this dance DURING the attack by the Orange Lanterns. "Olala. The GLs and the Sapce Gods will save us! I don’t have a care in the world! Blind Faith is awesome! Lalala!" Really excited for this issue. It can only end up being… EPIC!

  8. Avatar photo stuclach says:
    November 23, 2009 at 4:51 pm

    @PraxJarvin – I picture you actually dancing around while you typed that. Please tell me that is how it happened.

    P.S. Blind faith is awesome.

  9. Avatar photo FACE says:
    November 23, 2009 at 5:09 pm

    @stuc – yeah, you can’t go wrong with Eric Clapton and Steve Winwood.

  10. Avatar photo stuclach says:
    November 23, 2009 at 5:18 pm

    @FACE – EXACTLY!

  11. edward says:
    November 23, 2009 at 5:36 pm

    @FACE and Stuclach: i’m pretty sure a whole generation went wrong with Clapton and Winwood.

    Saint Walker is a creepy dude, just like every religious person i have ever known. It’s funny, isn’t it how these comic book reflect real life, hey?

  12. Avatar photo Andrew says:
    November 23, 2009 at 8:30 pm

    "Tra-La-La-La" – Saint Walker

     

    Doesn’t blue ring only work when in proximity to a green ring? If so, how can he fight Sinestro alone? 

  13. MisterJ says:
    November 23, 2009 at 8:47 pm

    @Andrew-With hugs and postive reinforcement for appropriate behavior of course.

  14. Avatar photo ABirdseysView says:
    November 23, 2009 at 9:43 pm

    Aren’t they going to get Saint Walker because they need to team-up all the colors to fight the Black Lanterns.  I like that how even in the middle of a story when they characters already know they need to team up, the classic trope of a fight preceding the team-up stands strong.

  15. Avatar photo vadamowens says:
    November 23, 2009 at 10:49 pm

    @stuc and face. yes, all 6 of their songs.

  16. Avatar photo TheNextChampion says:
    November 24, 2009 at 12:34 am

    We’re not seeing the rest of this cover. I believe next to Walker, on the right, it’s that Elephant dude in the air…..He’s waiting to be caught by Walker to keep the ballet going.

  17. Avatar photo JumpingJupiter says:
    November 24, 2009 at 8:17 am

    He’s so badass, he ballets on death’s face!

  18. Avatar photo JumpingJupiter says:
    November 24, 2009 at 10:34 am

    @ Edward: You didn’t get hugged a lot did you?

  19. edward says:
    November 24, 2009 at 4:56 pm

    @JJ: maybe i was hugged too much at a young age…

                               and in the wrong place

  20. Avatar photo stuclach says:
    November 24, 2009 at 5:13 pm

    Wow.

  21. Avatar photo supertrackmonkey says:
    November 24, 2009 at 7:35 pm

    @ TNC: I was thinking Fantasia too!

  22. Avatar photo JMS74 says:
    November 25, 2009 at 11:08 am

    Big fan of Saint Walker as a character.. I’m excited to see more of him and hope he’s around for a while.  He provides a good counterpoint to everyone else.

    Re: Blind Faith- it’s only because of Winwood in that band that I can even tolerate Clapton’s paint-by-numbers playing.  Yeah, I said it.

  23. Avatar photo drakedangerz says:
    November 25, 2009 at 11:30 am

    Just a heads up, I’ve been told this should be read before Blackest Night #5.  

  24. Avatar photo JumpingJupiter says:
    November 25, 2009 at 12:34 pm

    Thanks Drake!

  25. Avatar photo stuclach says:
    November 25, 2009 at 1:09 pm

    Drake is correct. Read this first.

    SPOILER: That felt like filler.  Atrocitus was somewhat interesting, but everyone else just felt like they were on a road trip to BN #5.

     

  26. Avatar photo TheNextChampion says:
    November 25, 2009 at 3:55 pm

    The stuff with Larfleeze and Atrocitus was great at first.

    Then we get to the meat of the issue and I agree with @stuclach: It’s all filler. It’s the same speech we’ve been hearing for months now about not trusting the GL’s. But now it’s coming out of Atrocious and Larfleeze’s mouth. Nothing exciting storywise about this so it was pretty bland.

    Mahnke though does some fucking good work in this. He’s quickly becoming one of my favorite artists.

  27. Avatar photo Simon says:
    November 25, 2009 at 8:31 pm

    This is shaping to be like a RPG game I’d love to play. Also, would it be far-fetched to say that Geoff Jones approved the mention of Black Rings in Deadpool so he could be able to mention Scrooge and Gonzo in this comic? O_o… Just kidding!

  28. Avatar photo drakedangerz says:
    November 25, 2009 at 9:57 pm

    @TNC and stuclach-Agreed.  I very much enjoyed the book, gave it a 5, but it was filler.  But it was required that they go over that again.  Consider the fact that a lot of people did not jump on to this title until BN started.  Johns needs to do a lot of extra work in order to get those fans caught up to what we knew way back when.

  29. Avatar photo zayaz says:
    November 25, 2009 at 10:53 pm

    I have to say when Mahnke came on board with the BN Prelude, his art was pretty solid. But in this issue it was absolutely awful, I had a really hard time reading this book due to the art. Otherwise, I good filler issue.

  30. Avatar photo Slockhart says:
    November 26, 2009 at 12:57 am

    Between the misleading solicit, the typo about taking place before BN #6 instead of #5, and the fact that Ganthet, Sayd, and Walker joining the team so fast last issue that I had forgotten it happened, it felt like they had printed the wrong issue.

    But yes, this was completely filler.  Damn-fine filler, but filler nonetheless. 

  31. Avatar photo WadeWilson says:
    November 26, 2009 at 5:17 am

    I wish I knew to read this BEFORE Blackest Night #5! D’oh!

    Kinda ruined it for me, like you guys said, it was total filler, because I read BN #5 & could have easily not read this & been fine with the story.

    But, yeah — awesome & entertaining filler is still filler. 4/5 for me. Art was KILLER story was filler. See? Told you I got skillz. No one is iller. 

  32. Avatar photo JumpingJupiter says:
    November 26, 2009 at 8:35 am

    I enjoyed this a lot! I like this Saint Walker dude.

  33. Avatar photo Noto says:
    November 26, 2009 at 10:06 am

    Yeah, I read this after Blackest Night too, specifically due to the typo on the first page. Oh well, it doesn’t really matter. Both books still made perfect sense.

  34. MikeFarley says:
    November 26, 2009 at 10:49 am

    BN #5 probably should have had a "Make sure you read GL #48 first, kiddies" blurb on its first page too.  I read ’em out of order too, but just assumed I’d forgotten somthing about the end of the last issue of GL.

  35. Avatar photo JumpingJupiter says:
    November 26, 2009 at 11:03 am

    "Shut up and light up"

  36. Avatar photo thescimitar says:
    November 26, 2009 at 1:16 pm

    I started reading BN#5 first, but knew I was clearly missing something from where we left off in BN#4.  BN#5 should have directed us to read this book first.

     

  37. Avatar photo theegreatone says:
    November 27, 2009 at 1:57 am

    How was this filler?

    Sinestro is going to align with Atrocious? 

    Whatsher face will be Larfleeze’s guardian?

    The awesome almost bond between Saint Walker and Atrocious.

     Hal saying he will never work for the Guardians again. 

     That was some huge stuff. 

  38. Avatar photo WadeWilson says:
    November 27, 2009 at 5:55 am

    @theegreatone- I can’t speak for everyone, but for me, I read BN#5 before this & didn’t feel like I missed anything. So, when I read this it seemed unnecessary to the story. BUT, it was still awesome/enjoyable, no question. 

  39. Avatar photo ABirdseysView says:
    November 27, 2009 at 11:11 am

    I agree with thegreatone, this was more than filler.  this gave us an idea of what could happen post-BN.  however, I found it funny that they skipped over the story beat eluded to in the solicit.  there was no scene convincing Saint Walker.  I suppose it would have been pointless though, because he probably didn’t need much convincing, but I was curious about his interaction with Sinestro.

  40. Avatar photo dneufeld says:
    November 27, 2009 at 2:29 pm

    I’m still really digging GL and GL Corps and I don’t mind a little filler here and there.  There were some forward strides in this issue however.  Great art by Mr. Mahnke, he’s really settling into this title nicely.  I was misled by the "before BN #6" typo, but through the wonder of comics, I figured it out.

  41. VicDeZen says:
    November 27, 2009 at 4:42 pm

    Second best book in the Blackest Night story.  I’m loving this comic book in this series.

  42. Avatar photo PraxJarvin says:
    November 27, 2009 at 6:25 pm

    I really enjoyed this issue. I did read it before BN #5, which may have changed my experience. Is it filler? Arguably, yes. However, it’s important filler. This is characterization for Atrocitus. He’s not just Angry. We’re also learning more and more about the Guardians being shifty, including Sayd. Ganthet seems none to happy she wants to be Larfeleaze’s Guardian. However, I understand the qualms people are having with this. Still, 5/5 for me. 

  43. Avatar photo PraxJarvin says:
    November 27, 2009 at 6:29 pm

    I forgot to mention… Mahnke’s art was a little loose and sketchy in the first half of the issue, not really recovering until the Sinestro/Hal/Atrocitus two page spread. It wasn’t bad, but I was a bit disappointed.

    @slockhart Essentially, we don’t see "Team Blue" join with Hal and the gang for the simple fact of it being a forgone conclusion. Saint Walker isn’t going to say no to Hal. Ganthet and Hal trust each other and Ganthet knows the shit hit the fan a while back. In most films, you don’t have long scenes of your character picking up his friends from his house who will most likely go out with him, you just start with three guys in the car on the way to pick up the last two.

  44. Avatar photo DarthDuck says:
    November 28, 2009 at 12:15 am

    I like the seeds being planted in this issue.  I like knowing that the Corps will conitue to be part of the GL mythos after Blackest Night.  Green Lantern, and all the other Corps, will still provide a lot of entertainment after this event.

    Unless we get thrown a huge curve and BL ends somehow wiping this all out, but I hope not.

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