The Green Lantern #12 is a true culmination of the previous 11 eleven issue. While the larger story is not over, this chapter or “season” is. Continued in Green Lantern: Blackstars, Hal Jordan's predicament will be revealed. This issue is a masterful segue and summation. Morrison proves he is still one of the best writers in comics. Read Full Review

The Green Lantern #12 is a packed finale to season one, filled with appearance by characters that have appeared throughout the run. This oversized issue shows that the creative team ended the first twelve issues as they began, a cohesive unit presenting readers with an ambitious story that throws big concepts at you while still delivering action, adventure and humor every step of the journey. Read Full Review

A lot of moving parts make for an exciting, if occasionally obscure, story that combines with Sharp's artistic chops to make for a great GL tale. Read Full Review

It's not the clean cut ending I was hoping for, but this issue is nonetheless an exciting, action-packed, twist-filled cliffhanger for what comes next! Read Full Review

Reading a Grant Morrison comic, such as The Green Lantern #12, is like taking an unexpected bus ride " you know what it's like to ride a bus, but you have no idea where you're going and it can be more than a little disorienting. But when it goes in the right direction, you get an experience unlike anything else. Read Full Review

With this being the last issue of Grant Morrison's current run in the series, it makes sense that he and his team would spend time a large portion of the story tying up loose ends. Some authors do this in rushed or forceful way, but Morrison ties them up like a bow. Read Full Review

Bottom Line: Morrison and Sharp delivered an ending to this first "season" that absolutely sticks the landing and leaves us with an intense cliffhanger that sees Hal Jordan's undercover operation possibly going over the edge. Only this creative team could pull off True Detective meets Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy. Read Full Review

Blackstars does get started with a decent cliffhanger and Morrison crafts an effective hook for the next story even if this isn't his strongest outing of The Green Lantern. Read Full Review

The battle with the Qwa-Man has become an extinction level event. Hal Jordan has literally put his life on the line to stop this menace from the Anti-Matter Universe. The Blackstars have also reared their ugly heads again, and still have plans for Hal Jordan that can potentially alter the fate of the multiverse in shocking ways. Read Full Review

"The Green Lantern" #12 refocuses the series to deliver a chilling final battle and cliffhanger. Read Full Review

A decent sci-fi storythat fumbles a little at the end by advertising other comics. Not that I won'tbe reading those comics, I'm just saying. It seems cheap. Read Full Review

The action early in The Green Lantern #12 is a high point followed by plenty of exposition with varying mileage, even for Morrison diehards. This is a relatively weak ending to a series that is well past its best issues. Read Full Review

I fucking loved this.

Morrison at his finest, with Sharp's pencils only amplifying the sense of amazement.

The Final Crisis tie-in and the multiversal elements are just the perfect finishing touches to this book.

I hope that they come out with a volume containing all 12 issues instead of the two trades.

Prelude:
It's the end of the first season of The Green Lantern. Let's see how it lands.

The Good:
It ties the first season up quite well.

Also provides some intrigue for what's coming up.

Art is great as well.

Oh, and Anti-Matter Sinestro is a really interesting character.

The Bad:
There isn't anything really.

Conclusion:
Return of the Qwa-Man ties up the series nicely and prepares us for Season Two and the upcoming Blackstars miniseries.

Wow, really good. This is great setup for the upcoming miniseries and the next green lantern book in 2020, presumably by Morrison as well. There's a lot going on, and if you don't know what's happening, you should read the rest of this series first. I love Sharp's art, and it really shows here with the detail during the fights and facial expressions. This book and Shazam are probably my 2 favorite books from DC right now simply because of how separated they are from the rest of the DC. It feels so quaint in comparison, and both of the books benefit from that, there isn't really a need to connect everything unless it has to do with Doomsday Clock, but we all know how that turned out...

Morrison and Sharp ended the series on a very high note, just as the whole book has been. I am so so excited about this not being the end yet.

Man, I love this book so much. What a great ending to "season 1". Grant Morrison is such a unique writer and paired with Liam Sharp the book has become really special. Can't wait for Blackstars #1

I feel as though I am growing ever more untethered from the details of the plot. Big fan of loveable rogue Sinestro though.

Good book.

I'd be lying if I said I knew what was going on at this point. I know the broad picture, but not the details. So this issue was pretty much fine, but confusing sometimes.

I don't know if I can really review this issue properly. The plot has become so convoluted, I've stopped following it. I'll give it a five, since I didn't really know what was going on, which prevented me from really having proper judgement of the issue. All I saw were scenes. The art was nice, though. I dunno. This series started off good, but really started to go downhill after the second arc started. I love Grant Morrison, but I don't know if I can bring myself to read anything else related to this issue afterwards.

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Br'er Lapin AKA 20-Ish Ceiln - Oct 9, 2019

I liked this, but I get you. This is one of the least penetrable books I have read in a long time. Grant pulls from so many stories and doesn't explain much to people who missed them. I personally really had that problem with the Annual and the 2 issues before this one. It got really complex and I had to read up on some of the multiversal stuff I was unfamiliar eith.

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ohhaimark - Oct 9, 2019

Thanks. Yeah, Grant's one of my favorite writers, and he really does understand the previous mythology/lore of any character he writes. Yeah, I struggled with those issues as well, especially as I'm not super keen on my Green Lantern lore. I'm glad you like the issue though!

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