I’ve mentioned this before: The first comic series I ever picked up was The X-Men vs. The Fantastic Four.  And, knowing nothing about the characters, I fell right into the story, followed along, and loved it.  The next book I picked up was the first issue of The Days Of Future Present crossover, and I had no fucken idea who was who and what was happening.  There was too much focus on continuity rather than how characters were actually feeling.  A frenetic splash of character moving plot here, then mostly unrelated character doing something slightly different over there. I never really fell in stride with any of the characters.  I felt the same way reading Morrison’s Final Crisis.  And, sadly, that’s the way I felt about this issue of Lantern Corps.  Only, here, it’s a little worse.

I felt lost in Days Of Future Present because I knew barely any X-history.  I felt lost in FInal Crisis because the scope of the story was so large, that had many characters whose plots or motivations I knew nothing about.  I DO know all of the characters in this issue.  I’ve been reading their stories for the last four years fairly religiously.  But in this issue, Tomasi so intelntly wants you to feel the chaos and hopelessness that the corps feels that, well, I just couldn’t connect with any character.  I understand what he was going for, but, for me, it just didn’t reach that place.  At the end, I felt disheartened, not because I felt the lanterns’ failure was imminent, but because I felt the issue ended exactly where it begun, and not in that cool meta way.