As a Green Lantern fan, this title has held a special place in my heart, but it’s hard to ignore the lack of grace in its storytelling. For a year’s worth of issues, the characters have talked and fought their way through each story development without reaching that next level of depth and intrigue that we often seek out in today’s comics. The story bends at the whim of which spectacle it wants to show off next, and while it attempts to find a heart in Kyle Rayner, it never gives the reader a compelling reason to truly invest emotions in him.
Tyler Kirkham has a bombastic flavor to his character designs that play up the busty Fatality, the hulking Invictus, and the abs on anything with a stomach. With so many shots of all seven Lanterns sharing the page, it’s not hard to see why the composition can be thrown all out of whack. The action lacks a smooth flow necessary for a fight involving so many participants, not to mention some events happen for unknown reasons. There’s already a lot of exposition in this issue, so I dare to say that more is needed to help clarify the action scenes, too.
With the first big storyline coming to a head, Tony Bedard delivers a fitting conclusion. The idea of the different colored Lanterns coming together to form a team is ludicrous at best, so he plays it smart and goes for an ironic ending that promises to shake up the series during its next year. While this series still has a ways to go to catch up to the quality of the main Green Lantern title, it is still the place to go for brightly colored action, big personalities, and more rings than you can shake a construct at.
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