It's New Comic Book Wednesday!
You know a book, an issue, is amaze-balls when you get to the last page and you say, out loud, WHAT THE F*@k?!? This is that issue.
So last week I complained about the plot of Stormwatch and how, after three issues, it had only spanned a short snapshot of time. It bugged me. But the same is true about this storyline. Perhaps it's the writing, the lack of characters to focus on or the clarity in the threat and action that makes this so much more appealing. Amazing what clarity can do to a story.
I am a bit puzzled by the fact that Carol (and the world) know the identities of Hal and the other GLs. While it's not shocking coming from previous storylines, it doesn't mesh with the JL story arc. Maybe I'm just missing the connection, or maybe there is none. I have to catch up.
Hal's "Do anything to get your life back" attitude is a pretty universal one, and I like the challenge he's faced with. He's forced to help someone bad, to do something good, hoping that he'll get back his reason for being in the end.
There's also this human side of Sinestro that Johns plays with. We forget that even the most evil people have homes and families and lives, and they aren't evil to everyone.
GINORMOUS SPOILER ALERT: I'm not sure why Hal trusts Sinestro, and I'm not sure what Geoff Johns did in three issues to make me trust him too, but he did. I don't think I'm enough like Hal, like Sinestro states "Because even if you're incapable of it, you always try to do the right thing." Yah. That's not me. But something inside of me, something about his need to fulfill his promise, to protect the people of Korugar, and his drive to annihilate those who are destroying his world, that something makes me do exactly what Hal did. Trust Sinestro.
Good God, why do we trust Sinestro? Charisma? It certainly isn't his pedophile looks. I can FEEL Hal's pain in the last panel as he curses Sinestro. But I think I'm sensing a little from Sinestro too. Darn you, DC. Hurry up with Issue #4!
Decision: Without a doubt, I will keep this. Of course, as a GL fan, I'd probably never give it up, but this is one I can preach about. HOLY MOSES!
So last week I complained about the plot of Stormwatch and how, after three issues, it had only spanned a short snapshot of time. It bugged me. But the same is true about this storyline. Perhaps it's the writing, the lack of characters to focus on or the clarity in the threat and action that makes this so much more appealing. Amazing what clarity can do to a story.
I am a bit puzzled by the fact that Carol (and the world) know the identities of Hal and the other GLs. While it's not shocking coming from previous storylines, it doesn't mesh with the JL story arc. Maybe I'm just missing the connection, or maybe there is none. I have to catch up.
Hal's "Do anything to get your life back" attitude is a pretty universal one, and I like the challenge he's faced with. He's forced to help someone bad, to do something good, hoping that he'll get back his reason for being in the end.
There's also this human side of Sinestro that Johns plays with. We forget that even the most evil people have homes and families and lives, and they aren't evil to everyone.
GINORMOUS SPOILER ALERT: I'm not sure why Hal trusts Sinestro, and I'm not sure what Geoff Johns did in three issues to make me trust him too, but he did. I don't think I'm enough like Hal, like Sinestro states "Because even if you're incapable of it, you always try to do the right thing." Yah. That's not me. But something inside of me, something about his need to fulfill his promise, to protect the people of Korugar, and his drive to annihilate those who are destroying his world, that something makes me do exactly what Hal did. Trust Sinestro.
Good God, why do we trust Sinestro? Charisma? It certainly isn't his pedophile looks. I can FEEL Hal's pain in the last panel as he curses Sinestro. But I think I'm sensing a little from Sinestro too. Darn you, DC. Hurry up with Issue #4!
Decision: Without a doubt, I will keep this. Of course, as a GL fan, I'd probably never give it up, but this is one I can preach about. HOLY MOSES!
Watch out for some mini-digis coming soon!
Next week: Green Lantern Corps #3 and Justice League #3
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