Media Release -- Hal Jordan and the Green Lantern Corps embark on their latest intergalactic missions as Warner Home Video (WHV) releases Green Lantern: The Animated Series — Rise of the Red Lanterns (Season 1 Part 1) on DVD. Based on the adventures of the popular DC Comics super hero, Green Lantern: The Animated Series, currently part of Cartoon Network's DC Nation programming block (Saturdays at 10 a.m. ET/PT), is produced by Warner Bros. Animation and animation legend Bruce Timm (Batman: The Animated Series; DC Universe Animated Original Movies). The two-disc DVD set featuring the first 13 episodes of the CG-animated action series will be available on August 28, 2012 for $19.97 SRP.

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Green Lantern #8
DC Comics
Johns, Mahnke, Alamy, Champagne & Irwin

Green Lantern continues to labor through stories with very lackluster issues that probably wouldn't make a lick of sense to any reader that hasn't read this entire run (or with Wikipedia handy). This issue marks the second chapter of "The Secret of the Indigo Tribe" and for the life of me I can't figure out what the goal of the tribe is. Add in that the issue has some very sloppy art in parts and I found myself disappointed with the comic book. I expect so much more from Johns.

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Green Lantern #7
DC Comics
Johns, Mahnke, Alamy & Champagne

There is a fine line between telling an entertaining and fun, decompressed story and putting forth an effort that seems to go nowhere while being mindless. To be blunt, I found this comic book to be boring and too familiar. Yes, Johns writes the characters well and Mahnke delivers some stunning visuals but that's just not enough. The seventh issue feels like we are watching scenes we witnessed in the second or third issue with dialogue cut directly from those issues. I can't just chalk it up to stretching things out. This issue is just not that good effort as a single issue.

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Green Lantern #3
DC Comics
Johns, Mahnke, Alamy & Champagne

Despite the cover artwork, the third issue of Green Lantern contains very little fighting in it. The bulk of the issue has Sinestro and Hal Jordan bantering back and forth. The dialogue is very good and makes the issue move quickly but the issue is basically sixteen pages where nothing happens before containing some fighting, which makes for a dull book generally. Johns has a tendency to draw stories out, which I can't stand, but this one at least has some witty dialogue to keep it interesting. Overall, this issue is a fine read.

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Media Release -- Green Lantern, a DC Comics mainstay for more than 70 years, will be seen in an entirely new way when Warner Bros. Animation's Green Lantern: The Animated Series - from world-renowned producer, artist and animator Bruce Timm (Batman: The Animated Series, Justice League) - comes to Cartoon Network in a one-hour special event. With stunning, stylized CG animation, Green Lantern: The Animated Series takes viewers on a journey of cosmic proportions as Hal Jordan and his band of heroes fight to save the universe. The special premieres Friday, Nov. 11 at 7 p.m. (ET, PT) as a precursor to the series debuting on Cartoon Network next year as part of the new DC Nation programming block.

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Green Lantern #2
DC Comics
Johns, Mahnke, Alamy & Champagne

The second issue of the re-launched Green Lantern is kind of a slow issue. While the issues provides some good moments between Hal Jordan and Sinestro it opens up to some questions that I'm not sure are going to have clear answers. Overall, the highlight of the book is the artwork but story-wise there just isn't much here. It feels like a stall issue, which isn't a good sign.

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Media Release -- Fan-favorite creator Ann Nocenti will be taking over as writer for GREEN ARROW in DC COMICS-THE NEW 52 – her first ongoing series for DC Comics. Nocenti has previously written for such iconic DC Comics characters as Batman, Poison Ivy and Catwoman, and is well known across the industry for her work on gritty, street-level heroes.

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Green Lantern New Guardians #1
DC Comics
Bedard, Kirkham & Batt

The first issue of Green Lantern: New Guardians represents the worst of the reboot/re-launch as it manages to both hinder a new reader's experience and annoy the long-time reader simultaneously. The artwork is very nice as the comic book provides a wide array of characters but the contents include a seven page origin story and a bunch of characters losing their rings and then converging on the character that had his origin told. There simply is no plot, no story and no definition to the book. Unless this book finds its place quickly it will simply be for the completists out there.

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