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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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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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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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Green Lantern Corps #1
DC Comics
Tomasi, Pasarin & Hanna

Here is one of the few titles that DC made a new number one for that has no business being part of the relaunch. As such, this book is going to get judged as being a number one and it fails on multiple fronts to be new reader friendly. As an established fan I found there to be flaws as well as a narrow focus. The issue seems to have lost sight of what came before when it really shouldn't have. Overall, this is a tough issue to recommend but I suspect those that are picking up the entire Green Lantern line are going to buy it regardless. I can't imagine a new reader getting into this at all.

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Green Lanterns #1
DC Comics
Johns, Mahnke & Alamy

Green Lantern is not part of the reboot but rather just a re-launch – one that Marvel does with regularity. However, this book doesn't change creative teams, but it changes leads in the seat of the book. This book has Sinestro wearing the Green Lantern ring rather than Hal Jordan, but Hal's in the book almost as much as Sinestro. Overall, this re-launch breathes some new life into the title that had become slow and boring over the last year. This was a good start to an interesting direction for Hal and Sinestro. I definitely recommend picking this one up.

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Green Lantern Emerald Warriors #13
DC Comics
Tomasi, Frenz, Dell & Deering

The finale of this series provides a good one-and-done story that gives an entertaining read. Basically, Batman is investigating a murder that occurred on an international space station and Guy Gardner intrudes because space is his deal. What we end up with is a bit of a murder-mystery that just barely scratches the surface of a mystery and turns into an escape. The story is fine but doesn't really do much other than show that Tomasi can write both characters well and can put the two together without either losing much.

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Green Lantern Corps #63
DC Comics
Kolins, Prado, Williams & Hdr

Green Lantern Corps comes to a close with this issue as it waits for the relaunch/reboot with a story that tries to drive home what it means to be a member of the Green Lantern Corps. Unfortunately the issue attempts to divide the story up into chapters based on artistic team and character focus (while having the same writer for all four chapters) and we end up getting a story that doesn't stack up into anything remotely as powerful as it could have been. It's not even that the comic reads as a mash-up of leftover parts, but rather it reads as though the creative teams had different directions as to the focus of their characters, which seems impossible because Kolins wrote all four stories. Overall, this doesn't live up to the quality of one-shots we've seen from this line since the crossover ended and it certainly doesn't live up to the standard that this title has set up over the past five years. This was a very disappointing read.

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War of the Green Lanterns Aftermath #2 of 2
DC Comics
Bedard, Getty & Smith

The second, and final, oversized, four dollar, crossover epilogue hits with an issue that mostly sets up where all the key characters will land in the relaunch/reboot. On the surface not all that much happens. However, Bedard manages to tell an entertaining story over the course of the twenty-eight page story. With the Corps and the supporting character cast becoming so large in the last few years you can afford to have an issue that mostly deals with internal conflict and Bedard exposes quite a few of these in this good wrap-up issue.

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