GREEN LANTERN #41

Review by: TalkNrdy2Me

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The debate can go back and forth whether or not Geoff Johns
is doing a phenomenal job on Green Lantern; that he’s telling an epic, space
soap opera filled, with the entire raw, emotional spectrum we can handle or
that this particular storyline is just the stuffing before getting to the
turkey that is Blackest Night. I love the Green Lantern book, but there’s this enormous
story looming in the background and I think I’m getting anxious.  I think too anxious to care about Larfleeze/Agent
Orange any longer.     

Agent Orange has been hinted at for months and then finally
we’ve gotten to see him, but it’s been a sluggish show and tell. The overall tone
and storyline has been intriguing, but this is issue was lackluster. We’ve been
in this holding pattern with the story progression. Giving us an origin story at
this point slowed down the pace of this issue a lot. This could’ve been a set
of backup stories, instead of the Animal Man preview DC keeps running
throughout their books.  

We’ve been teased with the orange power of avarice for
awhile now and it’s slowly paying off. As villains go, I have not felt Agent
Orange has shown any real sense of dread or ruthlessness until this issue.
Juxtapose to the threat of the yet unseen Black Lanterns seemingly more dour,
Larfleeze seems inconsequential at this point. His connection to the Guardians in
this issue made my jaw drop, but thinking back, it has been the only draw
dropping moment since Laira was killed by Sinestro four issues back.  

Then there’s Hal Jordan. His lack of personality lately is
staggering. My fear is that once Blackest Night starts how central Hal will be
to that plot when you can already see that it’ll involve a great majority of
the DCU? Will we care about Hal when this all starts?  The Green/Blue ring subplot has been a slight
annoyance only because he’s been almost every color now. Green, yellow, green
again, then red, then blue and now he’s this aquamarine color. Is there any
true power in that blue ring? Why did Ash’s search for the remains of the
Anti-Monitor abruptly stop? What is Fatality’s purpose now? There’s just several subplots going on with no clear destination on where they’re going. This begs the
question, what’s the story reward after all of this is through? I guess we’ll
see soon enough.

Story: 2 - Average
Art: 2 - Average

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