Every single member of the creative team brought their A-Game for this issue. There are some truly personal moments towards the end of the book that were my absolute favorites (you'll know it when you see it), and I loved the hints of mythology that were subtly peppered into the dialogue. This story is a prime example of why I love reading comics. If you haven't been reading this book, now is the time to catch up as Alan Scott: The Green Lantern keeps getting better with each new installment. The character moments are incredibly raw and genuinely impressive. Read Full Review

It's hard to find much to dislike aboutAlan Scott: The Green Lantern, and issue #4 is no different. Once again, DC has knocked it out of the park with a comic that begs to be read, analyzed, and reread over and over again. It will be interesting to see where this comic goes as the end approaches, and it's absolutely worth a read or four. Read Full Review

The art is strong as always, and Sheridan's deft, emotional script manages to perfectly capture the time period and make this feel like one of the most personal superhero tales on the stands. Read Full Review

The heart-break and heroics burn bright with another fantastic issue. Sheridan gives readers a closer look into devious intentions with sharp writing. Tormey and the rest of the creative team deliver the soul-crushing repercussions into vivid imagery. Brace for the final moments and dont dare miss this series. Read Full Review

Alan Scott's most personal conflict yet manifests in a backstory-filled, but still engrossing peak. Read Full Review

Alan Scott: The Green Lantern #4 gets to the heart of the issue by giving readers the full scoop on the Red Lantern's origins. While the reveal isn't the least bit surprising, it's well done. That said, Sheridan succeeds in building Red Lantern up by tearing Alan Scott down into a confused, chronically horny man whose libido clouds his judgment at every turn. Read Full Review

goated. Don’t listen to the homophobic fake reviews this is the best issue of this book so far. The complex relationship we’re getting between the green and red lanterns is awesome and if one of them was a woman those guys would all agree

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fatebuddy27 - Jan 30, 2024

Homophobic fake reviews from gay people who believe Alan's been intended to be read as gay since the 1940s... right, got it. It's a bad book, bud.

galactus420 - Jan 30, 2024

If it’s a bad book, why read it and review it? Unless you’re just a hater trying to put your thumb on the scales, fakebuddy. Go read stuff you like and let the rest of us like what we like

thecimmerian - Jan 30, 2024 (edited)

They were excited to read it in the beginning and even gave the first issue an 8.5. They said an epic gay comic was cool and needed. It looks like it just fell off for them. Seems like real critiques with what feels like honesty and they keep reading it not to "tip the scales" but in the hope that the book they once enjoyed gets better. If your still reading it why not review it? That's how it feels to me anyway.

fatebuddy27 - Jan 31, 2024

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tron - Feb 6, 2024

Continue to enjoy throwing out the phobics and ists for as long as it continues to last. Society is coming to it's senses and soon that shit won't fly as a go to. There are still assholes who hate everything different,because that's just reality, but soon it won't be as easy for people like you ( who are just as bad) to simply virtue signal other legitimate opinions into the cancleverse.

Smithd33 - Feb 6, 2024

You gave this a ten. That makes your opinion mute. A 8-9 maybe. 10? No. You’re just fluffing scores.

Amazing Psycamorean - Feb 29, 2024

If Tron could flirt harder with the enlightened centrist philosophy, I'd be impressed. He should change his avatar from V, an anarchist who blows up government, to a fence, something he loves to sit on while begrudging what other people decide to sit on.

tron - Mar 26, 2024 (edited)

If you could flirt harder with anything other than your left or right hands I'd be impressed. Fool. BTW, get a new stick. The one your beating that dead horse with is getting old.

Amazing Psycamorean - Mar 29, 2024

You're easily impressed. I guess flirting with anything is impressive work to you. I would beat a different horse, but you're an easy punchline.

tron - Mar 30, 2024

Your mother is an easy punchline. Speaking of punches, SHE'S the one who requests the donkey punch. So don't go blaming me for that. She's embarrassed by how loose she is. It's either from all the dudes in line before me or cause she gave birth to a kid with such a fat head.

Amazing Psycamorean - Mar 30, 2024

This is perhaps the most insecure response I've ever seen.

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I thought this was a well-done origin of Red Lantern here. I honestly don't really understand how some people can dislike this as much as I've seen. It's not anything groundbreaking or incredibly unique, but I think it's still an interesting and fairly well-written story. I think Sheridan did a good job with the dynamic between Alan and Vlad. I also thought it was pretty funny that Alan lured Vlad in just to absolutely deck him in the mouth.

Noting that Tim Sheridan is the writer behind the clusterfuck Red X reveals over in Titans Academy really shows how much better they are at breaking down reveals and twists now in this book. It's still a bit cliche and this story isn't anything you haven't seen as much as people whine about how it's ruining comics or whatever, but it's an enjoyable issue, I think.

Only praise I can give this issue is that the Red Lantern was interesting, and it builds off of what Geoff Johns introduced in the 2022 New Golden Age book. Everything else is boring, mainly Alan Scott. You can have gay characters with personality DC Comics, it’s not that hard.

It's like a bad joke: get a six-issue miniseries, fill it with flashbacks, advance the actual plot by one hour on a good day. Alan Scott: The Green Lantern is badly structured, there's no way around that, but it's such a deeply disappointing book that that's somehow the least of its faults.

First things first: time-travelling in order to pass through walls is needlessly overcomplicated. Alan has been able to phase through walls (in a ghost-like manner, is the image the 1940s comics want to invoke) since his very first appearance, he's also previously been shown as able to time travel (Gotham Knights #10 from December 2000 calling!), there's simply no possible need for one power to inform the other except in the service of this book's endless efforts to make Alan look as naive as possible in what should be the heyday of his career.

The "twist" is a far cry from what we've been told in Vlad's 'Who's Who' entry in The New Golden Age primer, and even details like the ring being from a women's college betray internal continuity errors (issue #1 of this very same series told us it's a Southern Conference College Baseball Championship ring -- very much a real thing). Then again, there seems to be no continuity or canon this miniseries respects (Alan owning lakefront property? I'd hazard a guess he wouldn't need to share a room with Doiby Dickles in All-American/GL/Comic Cavalcade if he was out there owning a house on a lake).

What's deeply troubling to me is the repeated portrayal of gay intimacy as purely transactional (the rent boys from the previous issue, Vlad & his commanding officer), gay love as built on lies ("I really could sell you on anything."), and gay characters steeped in stereotypes (the anachronistic use of "old queen" in #2, Alan's motel bath here). If the fact hadn't been highly publicized, I never would have guessed there are any LGBT creators involved in this book. At the end of the day, the main character has next to nothing in common with the Alan Scott we've come to know over the decades and that has nothing at all to do with his sexuality & all to do with his characterisation. more

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galactus420 - Jan 31, 2024

It’s a good book, bud

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