Near the end of the Blackest Night crossover, the shine started getting scratched off of the Green Lantern books for me.  As such, I was using this issue as a barometer for whether or not I wanted to drop the series for a while.  And, at the beginning, I was weghing heavily on the side of crossing this book off my list (I’ve already dropped Green Lantern Corps).  Apart from what, I’m guessing, is a dig at Conor’s favorite book, JLA: The Rise Of Arsenal (Lobo says “Ya can’t swing a dead cat without hittin’ someone wearin’ a power ring anymore!”), I just wasn’t engaged in the main story of this issue at all.  It’s not the pacing.  It’s not the dialog.  It’s not the art.  I think I just have Lantern Fatigue.  And I have never really enjoyed Lobo, and this issue didn’t help win me over to wanting to read about him.

The “coming next issue” panel, however, has me interested in the next issue, and then…and then…and then Johns writes an origin story for Dex-Starr the Red Cat Lantern.  And it’s brief and fantastic. Davis’s art is focused more on the cat than the people, which is perfectly logical, and also quite enjoyable.