ScottWilliams
Thursday, November 26, 2009, 02:39 AM
Title: Green Lantern #48
Rating:
Publisher Website: DC Comics (http://www.dccomics.com/dccomics/)
Writer: Geoff Johns
Pencils: Doug Mahnke
Inks: Christian Alamy, Doug Mahnke & Tom Nguyen
Colors: Randy Mayor with Gabe Eltaeb
Number of pages: 20
Price: $2.99
Color: Color
Safety Content Label: A - Appropriate for age 9 and up.
Reviewer Comments:
I can't complain about this issue, it wasn't a full five stars, but it was good none the less.
Johns explains a few things in the panels of GL #48. If you're like me and hurried to read Blackest Night #5 before you read this, there were a few things in there that threw you off, but knowing that it was Geoff Johns, you knew it would be explained, and this is the comic were he did it. This issue explains how Atrocitus and Larfleeze ended up joining the "Rainbow Rodeo" in the crusade against the Black Lanterns.
It also shatters anyone's ideas that there may be some sort of permanent alliance of some of these Corps when Blackest Night comes to an end. Sure, a few of them might become allies, but that's assuming they make it out of this whole story with their skins intact. The way Johns is killing people off left and right, we have to assume that at least some of them will come back, but whether or not some of these Corps of light will make the cut is something of a guessing game.
I love the way Johns writes Sinestro - pompous and arrogant... and then he summarily puts him in his place. There's also a panel where we read "Hal Jordan of Earth" in a black bubble indicating Nekron is speaking. Now if you read BN #5 I'm pretty sure you can figure out the word that is likely to come next issue.
I'm pretty sure that word will be "DIE!"
I had previously written off Saint Walker as pretty much a useless character in this arc, but between this issue and BN #5 John's has found a way to make even Walker a valuable member of the team. Now if he can only do the same for Carol Ferris.
Doug Mahnke's pencils remind me (in places) of Mark Bagley's shadowing in the latest issue of JLA but the colors done by Randy Mayor and Gabe Eltaeb compliment the pencils instead of reinforcing the darkness as was done in JLA. The stunning colors used in the different Lantern Corps likely help with that, but it works for me at least. This book is definitely staying on this Fanboy's pull list.
Rating:
Publisher Website: DC Comics (http://www.dccomics.com/dccomics/)
Writer: Geoff Johns
Pencils: Doug Mahnke
Inks: Christian Alamy, Doug Mahnke & Tom Nguyen
Colors: Randy Mayor with Gabe Eltaeb
Number of pages: 20
Price: $2.99
Color: Color
Safety Content Label: A - Appropriate for age 9 and up.
Reviewer Comments:
I can't complain about this issue, it wasn't a full five stars, but it was good none the less.
Johns explains a few things in the panels of GL #48. If you're like me and hurried to read Blackest Night #5 before you read this, there were a few things in there that threw you off, but knowing that it was Geoff Johns, you knew it would be explained, and this is the comic were he did it. This issue explains how Atrocitus and Larfleeze ended up joining the "Rainbow Rodeo" in the crusade against the Black Lanterns.
It also shatters anyone's ideas that there may be some sort of permanent alliance of some of these Corps when Blackest Night comes to an end. Sure, a few of them might become allies, but that's assuming they make it out of this whole story with their skins intact. The way Johns is killing people off left and right, we have to assume that at least some of them will come back, but whether or not some of these Corps of light will make the cut is something of a guessing game.
I love the way Johns writes Sinestro - pompous and arrogant... and then he summarily puts him in his place. There's also a panel where we read "Hal Jordan of Earth" in a black bubble indicating Nekron is speaking. Now if you read BN #5 I'm pretty sure you can figure out the word that is likely to come next issue.
I'm pretty sure that word will be "DIE!"
I had previously written off Saint Walker as pretty much a useless character in this arc, but between this issue and BN #5 John's has found a way to make even Walker a valuable member of the team. Now if he can only do the same for Carol Ferris.
Doug Mahnke's pencils remind me (in places) of Mark Bagley's shadowing in the latest issue of JLA but the colors done by Randy Mayor and Gabe Eltaeb compliment the pencils instead of reinforcing the darkness as was done in JLA. The stunning colors used in the different Lantern Corps likely help with that, but it works for me at least. This book is definitely staying on this Fanboy's pull list.