Unable to leave the atmosphere, the Green Lantern looks for help from a mystical source, which leads him to a mysterious gateway and surprising answers to the origin of Hal's ring.
Green Lantern #9 keeps the quality of one of DC's best rolling with a sensational issue that sets the stage for a major storyline to play out. Read Full Review
This is a welcome return to form, and it really seems that altogether, fans are witnessing the beginning of a new golden era of Green Lantern, and I couldn't be more thrilled. Read Full Review
Adams played it slow to start, but he's being rewarded with an excellent ramp-up to the next arc. Read Full Review
Green Lantern #9 keeps building momentum with the reveals as Jeremy Adams and Xermanico team up to deepen Green Lantern's mythology. Lots of changes are happening here. This is the start of a new era for GL, and it is not too late to jump on, charge up, and experience comics in a bold light! Pick this issue up, as this is a milestone moment in Hal Jordan's life. Read Full Review
Green Lantern #9 checks a lot of boxes for me as a veteran Green Lantern reader, and I feel like the series so far has been like the beginning of a roller coaster ride where we are just about to hit the top of the lift hill before the ride really begins. Jeremy Adams has been laying the groundwork for a great adventure and I feel like, as good as this series has been, we are just getting started.Nine out of ten lanterns. Read Full Review
Xermanico delivers some fantastic art throughout the issue. The character designs are beautifully detailed and the art offers some great moments of action and thrills. Read Full Review
Adams Hal stresses on his humanity, giving us a man behind the mask, and lets us in to see behind his eyes. These two have really given us the most grounded Green Lantern Ive read in quite sometime, and Im loving them for it. Read Full Review
Green Lantern #9 is the issue that pays off what's been lacking in this series - meaningful answers. With a new status quo for all GLs and badly needed canon fixes, Adams is on the right track to get the Green Lanterns back to their place of prominence in the galaxy. Read Full Review
Green Lantern #9 answers a ton of nagging questions in a short amount of time making this installment incredibly informative. Moreover, the premise by Adams was quite clever in how he intertwined some minor history to hammer out the why and provide a solid foundation for Sector 2814. Overall, Green Lantern #9 extended the answers that we needed in this run. However, it did so a bit too quickly and left this reviewer scratching his head in a variety of early parts. Moreover, I think the backup is taking some serious page count away from the meat of this series. I get the process BUT I think we need to move past it and let Adams just do his thing. Read Full Review
Green Lantern #9 brings a number of plot ideas together. It feels like the lynchpin to this series and everything will pivot off this issue going forward. The deep cuts are really exciting, as are the potentialities suggested in this issue with the Green Lantern Corps, Jessica Cruz and the United Planets. Read Full Review
Adams start to deliver on all of the set up he has been doing for the last year. He now is actively building on the Green Lantern Lore in a great way. Helping explain in a reasonable way, why there are so many human green lanterns, but also setting that explanation up for more deep lore further down the road. That is some excellent writer set up. Everything about this issue was great.
Art was great. Hal had some real character development. The nostalgia drops were nice. This run is developing very nicely.
The Jessica Cruz backup was actually well done. Wasnt sure but I liked it. While the leader seems easily tricked, he is also a megalomaniac who just wants loyalty to himself and his ego pumped (much like some real li more
Classic Green Lantern storytelling. Stunning visuals, I really loved the scene where Hal charges his new ring. Jessica Cruz side story was also a fun read
Adams does a good job of finding a good reason to have Tom Kalmaku show up, and makes a far more compelling justification for the ridiculous number of Earth Lanterns (although there are just too many imo). With Hal's ring restored the haze of self doubt has been lifted, and Hal has the clarity of emotion to make a crucial decision about Carol - and of course this just means that Adams will have Carol decide she wants to be with Hal since they can never both be in the same place emotionally.
This is all building towards a Green Lantern Civil War of sorts - and I can't wait to see how it all unfolds.
A step right back up in terms of quality, in my opinion. I found the new area that the power battery was in to be very interesting and I hope it's something Adams ends up revisiting. I also enjoyed the backup story for what it was, but I didn't find it was enjoyable as the Kyle Rayner story from the last issue. Either way, I'm really enjoying this series and I feel like something big is coming.
This week marked a turning point in Hal’s story as Jeremy Adams (@spacekicker) began solidifying the foundation he’s been setting up since the series debuted, setting up a ton excitement for the next arc.
Hal’s journey to discovering a previously unknown power source has been hidden on Earth was a well-executed plot device that also gave someone from Hal’s past a nice cameo. Hal is now in possession of three things he’s been sorely lacking: 1) confidence in himself; 2) the courage to leave those he loves on Earth behind; & perhaps most importantly, 3) a fully functioning ring. To say I’m excited for what comes next is an understatement & seeing Jo appear at the end has me anxious for the next issue. This continues to more
solid art, action, and plot from the Green Lantern team.
I liked a lot about this issue and it seems to be getting better. Aside from the mystery of the United Planets ringslingers being able to change colors at will, my biggest complaint with this portion of the story was the guy that Hal finds in the hole. Has the guy just been waiting down there for months or years for a GL to show up? If so, that's extremely far-fetched beyond a guy with a green ring. Then, when he finishes with Hal, he just walks off. Hal doesn't have to fly him out or anything which means he could have left at any time. I'm not a big fan of the Sector GL, Jo. I would have rather had Jessica in there instead of using her for the backup story.
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I'm not sure of how I'm feeling about these color changing Lanterns, back then only Kyle could do this easily, now everybody's doing it like it doesn't mean a thing. Let's see how it goes from here.
Also, Adams really is going back with MILLENNIUM. Trash saga, but he brought it back in a smart way.
Adams tried to explain why there are so many redundant earth lanterns. But this issue still failed to convince me of their validity. IMO they don't need to be legitimized. They need to be pruned.
And the Jessica Cruz backup story is so stupid. Thaaros just swallowed her clumsy lies and tricks like an idiot? That’s the big bad the corps are dealing with? Is this story written for infants?
Plus, too many earth lanterns are so boring. It would be much better if the one who rescued Hal is Arisia, Trilla-Tru, or Iolande, instead of Jo who nobody cares about.
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