GREEN LANTERN #30
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This review contains spoilers, click here to read
Josh was right when he said it’s
about time that Hal got some character, how #29 made him feel a lot more human.
Sinestro Corps was awesome, but it was very plot-centric, and it was a good
move to follow it with a character-centric arc. There’s a really great moment
(amongst many) in this issue that I want to focus on: The 6 panel page where
Hal climbs into the wreck of his dad’s plane and says “Dammit, Dad.”
Ivan Reis gets better with every issue. The emotion on this page is tangible. The panel of Hal’s face staring at the wreck is really powerful in contrast to the tough-as-nails Hal we’ve see in the book so far. The way he grips onto the plane like he’s trying to touch his Dad is super heartbreaking. Rob Leigh’s lettering in the 1 word balloon deserves attention- the words are a little too small for the balloon, you really feel like it’s being said under the breath.
It peeled back
some layers in Hal’s character. The situation set up in previous issues is
this: Hal sided with no-fear Dad, his brother sided with super-afraid Mom.
Every
This gave me a Geoff Johns revelation. I was getting wary of what I saw as his 1-trait-per-character approach (more true of minor characters- John Stewart thinks of everything architecturally, Zoom wants to give heroes tragedy), worried that it led to 1- dimensional characters. This page made me realize that that 1 trait is not the entirety of the character; it’s a seed for future development. There are a lot of layers to exploit in even 1 trait. It can be deepened, expanded, subverted (like Hal’s ‘no-fear’ was on this page), taken in unexpected directions. Amongst all media and genres, this is unique to superhero comics. The longevity of characters and the diversity of creators working on them means that any character has near infinite potential. The trick is to find the potential that works, that resonates. That’s Johns’ great skill. Labor said on the forum (I think it was about Abin Sur coming to Earth to investigate the Blackest Night) how Johns has these great ideas that feel like they’ve always been there. That hits the nail on the head. He synthesizes concepts seamlessly, finds things about a character that fit with the past (which is not nostalgia, it’s utilizing all the cool stuff that’s been built up) and at the same time pushes forward to the future.
And-
However you can, GL fans really need to track down the story where the wrecked
plane first shows up: “Flight,” by Johns and Darwyn Cooke. It was originally
printed in ‘GL Secret Files and Origins
And- The Johns/Reis
run works really well with the Who Live at
Art: 4 - Very Good
Best live rock album ever.
Yeah. I just finally got the 2-disc one, with all of ‘Tommy.’ I’m never going back to the studio version. I think Neil Young’s Weld is #2.
Great review (and I love the soundtrack suggestions; there should be more of these!)
I’m just starting to catch up on Johns’ GL and your thoughts here help me put these issues in perspective. I agree that the idea of focusing on a single trait for a character, if it’s done right, doesn’t make them one-dimensional, but helps to focus and accentuate how all these traits fit together. It’s almost the only way to have characters be recognizable and make sense over a lot of years of stories and different writers.