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Comic Book Review: Final Crisis: Rage of the Red Lanterns #1
2008-10-30 16:00:00 The Revolution enjoyed the Sinestro War and is looking forward to the upcoming Blackest Night event. So, naturally, I am interested in Final Crisis: Rage of the Red Lanterns #1. I have a feeling that this issue will be a Final Crisis tie-in issue in name only and actually have nothing at all to do with DC?s current big event. I would expect that Final Crisis: Rage of the Red Lanterns #1 is designed to start building reader interest in the Blackest Night event. Let?s go ahead and do this review. Creative Team Writer: Geoff Johns Pencils: Shane Davis Inks: Sandra Hope Art Rating: 8 Night Girls out of 10 Story Rating: 6 Night Girls out of 10 Overall Rating: 7 Night Girls out of 10 Synopsis: We begin the issue with the statement that this issue takes place between Final Crisis #1 and #2. We start on Ysmault and witness the birth of the first Red Lantern: Atrocitus. Atrocitus narrates how the liquid fire of the red light fills his veins. Atrocitus begins throwing up blood. Atrocitu...
Comic Book Review: Green Lantern Corps #23
2008-04-15 15:30:00 Green Lantern Corps is quickly approaching the point where it falls victim to The Revolution?s dreaded axe. This title continues to be nothing more than a remarkably ordinary read. Green Lantern Corps #23 has to deliver something more than being filler for what is going on between issues over on Green Lantern. Let?s go ahead and hit this review.Creative TeamWriter: Peter J. TomasiPencils: Patrick GleasonInks: Prentis RollinsArt Rating: 6 Night Girls out of 10Story Rating: 6 Night Girls out of 10Overall Rating: 6 Night Girls out of 10Synopsis: We begin with Mongul picking some mystical flowers called the Mercy that have the ability to renew the spirit and fill up a being with hope and give them a clear mind and sense of purpose. Mongul fills a huge bag of the flowers and says that he is going to give these flowers to those that he deems are worthy of his considerations. Mongul then orders his ring to search for the nearest Sinestro Corps member and to take him there.We shift to Secto...
Comic Book Review: Green Lantern Corps #22
2008-03-15 18:55:00 Green Lantern Corps is a title that is fighting to earn a permanent spot on The Revolution?s pull sheet. I gave this title a try during the Sinestro War. Since I dig the Green Lantern universe so much and am looking forward to all the big events that Johns has in store for us over the next couple of years, I?m willing to give Green Lantern Corps a chance to impress me enough to add it to my permanent pull sheet. Let?s go ahead and hit this review for Green Lantern Corps #22.Creative TeamWriter: Sterling GatesPencils: NelsonInks: Nelson, Derek Fridolfs & Rob HunterArt Rating: 5 Night Girls out of 10Story Rating: 5 Night Girls out of 10Overall Rating: 5 Night Girls out of 10Synopsis: We begin with a flashback scene when Boodika tried to stop Parallax (Hal Jordan flavor) and Parallax ends up slicing off Boodika?s hand and taking her power ring. We zip back to the present with Boodika on Bellatrix attempting to bring her sister, Zale, who is a rogue Green Lantern, back to Oa. Howeve...
Comic Book Review: Green Lantern Corps #20
2008-01-15 05:59:00 I took a leap of faith way back in Green Lantern Corps, and to my chagrin, gave it the most scathing review I've written to date. Much has changed since then, both in the comic book and the folks working on it. Post Sinestro Corps, lets see what happens when we give the book another chance.Creative Team Writer: Peter TomasiPenciler: Patrick Gleason & Charles MagnoInker: Prentis Rollins, Tom Nguyen, Drew Geraci, Rodney Ramo, Rebecca Buchman Art Rating: 6 Night Girls out of 10Story Rating: 4 Night Girls out of 10Overall Rating: 5 Night Girls out of 10 Synopsis(Summary): Mongul acquires a Sinestro Corps ring, and learns all he can from it, and then uses it to leave the planet the dead planet he was on. Kyle Rayner and Guy Gardner decide to leave Earth and move to OA permanently. Guy will set up a new Warrior's Bar on Oa he will call Guy's Place and Kyle will be his partner. The Guardians track Sinestro Rings. Comments The Good: The art, while a little uneven due to the n...
Comic Book Review: Green Lantern Corps #19
2007-12-14 21:19:00 Green Lantern Corps #19 is an epilogue to the Sinestro War story arc. As a general rule, I find epilogue issues to be rather boring. They are mostly filler issues as the writer takes a break and burns some time before kicking off the next major story arc. I doubt that we will get much of an interesting story in Green Lantern Corps #19. Let?s go ahead and do this review.Creative TeamWriter: Peter TomasiPencils: Patrick GleasonInks: Prentis Rollins, Derek Fridolfs, Tom Nguyen, Drew Geraci, Dan Davis & Rebecca BuchmanArt Rating: 4 Night Girls out of 10Story Rating: 5 Night Girls out of 10Overall Rating: 4.5 Night Girls out of 10Synopsis: We begin with Guy and Kyle using their power rings to light up the Statue of Liberty?s torch. The two Lanterns hang out on the top of the torch and talk about the war that they just won. Guy asks Kyle what it was like to be possessed by Parallax. Kyle responds that he can still remember the looks on the faces of the Lanterns that he killed. Guy rem...
Green Lantern Corps #17
2007-10-22 02:38:00 Ok, now this is just filler. They held out with original material for a while, but the symptoms of a crossover will always, eventually manifest. Plus, there were like, five artists? I had been pleasantly surprised by the last two issues, but now I'm looking forward to the end of the Sinestro Corps war so I can drop this like a bad habit.
Green Lantern Corps Annual #2: a trio of great stories
2007-04-01 16:42:00 Here's another item from within my collection I'm going to write about, this one the Green Lantern Corps Annual #2 from 1986, which features a trio of short stories told by 3-4 different writers.The book begins with Steve Englehart's framework story featuring Sinestro in jail on Oa, which at the time was turned into a prison planet where intergalactic criminals could be kept. He's trying to make it seem as if he's got connections to some kind of space-lord out there, and that by telling some great stories, he can win a get-out-of-jail-free card. All the other convicts on his cell block are mighty annoyed by him, but along he goes and proceeds to tell a couple of short stories about occurances in the history of the GL Corps.We first start with one written by Mindy Newell, about a Han Solo-like soldier of fortune named Penn Maricc hanging out in one of these intergalactic bars who's approached by mysterious figures who ask of him to undertake the daring mission of rescuing an al... |
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