Thorne, along with artists Dexter Soy and Marco Santucci and all-time great colorist Alex Sinclair make this setup look great. However, a big but predictable twist ending isn’t a reason to dismiss a book. It achieves what it sets out to do-that is, finishing the refocus of the greater narrative of the book from a larger group into smaller, tighter groups of characters with their own sets of interconnected stakes and consequences-but the event itself feels a bit rote once the initial surprise has worn off. It is the more shocking but less satisfying bit of necessary table setting for the new series. The other good way to kick it off is through the explosion that rips through Oa shortly after John’s departure. Grant Morrison showed that there is a lot of possibility in the weirdness of the Lantern’s corner of the DCU, and this is probably the perfect way to kick it off. Green Lantern is usually at its best when it embraces space opera-style sci-fi, leaning more into Emerald Knights than Space Police. Oa joining the United Planets renders several Green Lanterns redundant, which sets them up for one half of the issue’s big narrative thrust: John Stewart is leading an army of Lanterns into deep space to investigate the Dark Sectors. This issue picks up a slight bit of time after the first, opening with a big action scene featuring Guy Gardner hitting a dragon in the face, followed shortly after by a burial ritual for the fallen Guardian.Īfter the ritual is finished, Thorne moves into sliding the rest of the pieces into place. But as a one-two punch to set up a status quo? It pays off.
Is it a sustainable mode of storytelling? Not in the slightest.
#Green lantern 2 series
His debut issue on the new series ended with the death of a Guardian, and this issue ends with the destruction of a large portion of the Green Lantern Corps. Geoffrey Thorne is moving from shock to shock.
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