At this point, Geoff Johns has convinced me that I can enjoy almost ANY Green Lantern story without getting everything DC prints that's colored green.
I picked up my copy of
GREEN LANTERN #65 from my local comic shop (which also happens to be PART 4 of the
"War of the Green Lanterns" crossover) to choose for my review this week because my other co-hosts on the
FANBOY BUZZ podcast are starting to school me on my Green Lantern knowledge, so I thought it best to really get my head in the game and start seriously reading this title again, insead of putting it off.
GREEN LANTERN is one of those titles you can't just flip through to get the jist of the story, because the story is that good. Sure, you might catch a fun moment here or there hidden in a splash page or large panel, but you'll never get the full enjoyment of the story if you just skim it. In fact, I would compare reading Green Lantern is alot like eating steak. Every bite's delicious if cooked just right, there's never enough and it's always a meal you look forward to.
In this issue,
Hal Jordan and
Guy Gardner make a speed run to join up with
Kyle Rayner and
John Stewart on OA. The influence of Parallax is strong inside their rings, so Hal whips out some other rings that readers might be familiar with in shades of red, yellow, blue and violet for them to gear up with.
There's some great dialogue in this series, and it's so nice to see that Guy Gardner has come leaps and bounds since his days of the "BWA-HA-HA" Justice League. The relationship between these guys are written very strongly...not quite like a family...but certainly like men who work beside each other every day. They know each other's strengths and weaknesses and as a reader, I enjoy that "team" mentality in this book.
Any bad points? Only seeing John Stewart in a compassion-colored bandana. That was a little weird. Other than that, I enjoyed this book alot...and that's from someone who hasn't picked up ANY part of this series EXCEPT GL.
So ring-sling over to ComicCollectorLive.com and get yourself one of two different flavors of GL #65...where you'll find copies of the 1:10 variant cover of this book for less than $5 a copy as I write this! Look under "NEW RELEASES", find GREEN LANTERN, say the oath and have no fear. You're off and running!