The Green Lantern: Season Two #8 is one that is going to challenge readers due to Grant Morrison's creative choice to literally tell the story from an antimatter universe point of view. It's wonderfully creative and requires the reader to do some thinking about how they approach the issue. I know I read it a few times before writing this review and having a great conversation about the issue in episode 178 of The Podcast of Oa, but with each subsequent reading, the story became clearer and clearer. Eight out of ten lanterns. Read Full Review

It's the kind of bold experimental storytelling that Morrison is known for, and it's definitely the best Green Lantern run since the heyday of the Johns run. Read Full Review

This second season of Grant Morrison's Green Lantern has not been nearly effective as Season One. The Green Lantern: Season Two #8 takes things a step backward as it doesn't quite deliver on things as effectively as it could. Issue #6 remains the high point of Season Two,with issue #7 coming in at a close second. Morrison aims high with issue #8 but doesn't quite connect with the audience. There are seeds of greatness therein, however the form distracts from the message instead of enhancing it. Read Full Review

At the end of this, it feels like we went in a giant circle, and some of the blanks still feel like they need filling, resulting in an issue that I probably need to read again to fully comprehend but honestly don't want to. Read Full Review

Absolutely brilliant.

The true war with the anti-world is not between the Lanterns and the Weaponeers, but between 666 and the Qwa-Masters.

"HATE DEATH PAIN KILL!"

666nestro, the ship I didn’t know I wanted or needed.

Another visionary issue by Morrison and Sharp. Morrison really gives the Anti-Matter U. a character of its own after decades of existence...and the perspective on the "Plus-Matter U." GLs was hilarious and unique.

The art was incredible, and I liked that Anti-matter Hal and Sinestro are lovers.

I liked this issue on its own, but I'll be completely honest and say, I have no idea how this connects to the rest of the series.

I liked it better after flipping the backwards dialog and reading in the reverse chronological order.

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Ulf - Oct 13, 2020

exactly! About halfway through I finally realized that's what was happening - I'm getting slow. But a lovely issue. Art as usual is superb, and the way Morrison wrote the Anti-Matter Unverse - absolutely fantastic. It felt like its own thing, for one of the first times I can remember. You really felt for 666 and his love affair with XXXX as well...unexpected, human and fabulous! Loved that it was almost all from the Anti-perspective.

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Great art.

Is deliberately making the storytelling as unorthodox and convoluted as possible considered to be some stroke of genius? I understand the plot just fine, it's just a chore to work through and smacks of the Morrison tendency to over-indulge himself.

Weird for the sake of being weird. Not a fan of doing an issue backwards either. Art is good but Morrison is still a bit out there with his story telling.