I hate the idea of Sinestro’s son. Tomasi really left a bad load of shit before moving on ghost machine. Tomasi is clearly putting in a lot of effort to portray the children as adorable, but they come across as annoying instead.

Disappointing.
1. Hal is portrayed like a fool and out of character. I know Jeremy wants to introduce the situation to readers through the dialogues between Hal and Jo, but don’t you have a better way to do this? Where’s Hal’s questioning spirit? His problems with the authority? His sharp instincts? His leading qualities?
2. This book is bloated with earth humans. We finally made it into the space yet all we can see are still earth humans. This is soooooo boring. Hey, Jeremy, we haven’t seen Salaak for a while, would you mind giving him a line? I’m sure he is the veteran here instead of Jessica Cruz, Simon Baz or Jo Mullein.
3. Hal saves the day in this issue because he got a ring from his friend Tom. So why is he the greatest Green Lantern? What’s so special about him? He is the protagonist of the book after all. We are supposed to expect something exciting or extraordinary from him..
4. I genuinely think Keli should be never mentioned again. This character is an abomination.

As I can see, Jeremy Adams is now making the same mistake as Robert Venditti did in his repulsive run. more

Although I enjoyed Hal's scene in this issue, a glaring issue with the current run has become too significant to overlook: Hal appears on merely a quarter of the pages.
It frustrated me and keeps frustrating me that we only get one book of Hal per month, ONE BOOK, yet it is not entirely focused on Hal. Meanwhile the other Green Lantern book, War Journal, is completely dedicated to John Stewart. Buying Hal's book, I am compelled to tolerate Jo Mullein, Jessica Cruz, Kyle Rayner, the fxxking stupid Teen Lantern, and now JSA, whose storylines do not contribute to the protagonist of the book. These characters have become a hindrance in my reading experience.
And the sorrow lantern is just a bad idea. The continual arrival of new lanterns has become redundant and exhausting. Come on, It's a big universe, with countless things to explore. It's better to leave the emotional spectrum alone before it become repetitive and draining. Additionally, Adams may need to reconsider: does he truly wish to make a man sharing the same surname as Hal's co-creator a villain?
I rate this issue a 2.5 as it is a quarter of the total 10. more

It's nice to see some HalCarol stuff but I can't help but ask, has Jeremy Adams ever thought about it, what's so great about Hal when he leads his teammates to a wrong way and relies on his girlfriend to be saved?

I don’t like how Williamson handled Merlyn. He’s making him the reverse flash of green arrow.

A great book with fascinating art. I'd love to see more Geoff's touch though.

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. more

I probably like this more than the average reader, but this felt like this issue had everything you would want to move the plot forward. You have some serious foreshadowing that stuff in space has got really f'ed up with all the emotional spectrum cores blowing up and the fact the United Planets Corps are able to use a variety of colours. We get some good fights, Hal sass (always up for it), and some relationship drama (short but nice subplot). Seeing some magic involved as a guest start was also nice. Art is ace as always.

Back up was much better than before (better art). Really enjoy seeing Kyle again, even if the scene was quite sad. This book felt like it was worth every penny. I dont get that feeling often. more

I hate the idea of Sinestro’s son, no matter he is his true son or not. Tomasi, just stop this farce. Write your overflowing paternal love for Ghost Machine or something. Stop messing up DC’s characters.

Very promising. I wish you all the best, Geoff.

Seriously?
Our hero is scouring the docks looking for sex and another hero later tells him that's okay. This is now the calibre of person(s) we have as examples to look up to.
In the Concise Oxford Dictionary the word hero is defined as: 1. a person, typically a man, who is admired for their courage or outstanding achievements.
What's to admire in this sleazy and sordid episode? Pathetic. more

This is trash. Art is good. Story sucks. Dc has been pulling this B.s for forty years.

I really love the interaction between Hal and Sinestro in this issue.
Also the backup story is shit. Just stop it, Tomasi. Nobody likes your cheap copy of supersons.

I'm enjoying this run. It's fresh but grounded in tradition. All of the main characters are spot-on. The art is spectacular. I would grade it a 10 but for the backup story. Good to know this is spinning off as a new title because I could not have less interest in a book aimed at 10-year-olds. I would have preferred another 8 pages of the main story. I hope future issues don't include back-up stories a la Tales of the Green Lantern Corps. However, with the team splitting off in different directions, it would appear inevitable. As long as the tone and quality of the main story are maintained, it will be OK with me. more

I don't understand how can Alan still be called a superhero now. He wields so much power that can overturn every regime of this planet. He can and ought to protect his kind, fight for them. That's what a hero does. That's what the old Alan would do. Yet he used it to run away from the police when he was seeing a prostitute. Alan used to be a tough guy, an old class hero. I don't appreciate why they want to turn him into a pathetic hypocrite. more

If the last two issues had limited themselves to a couple retcons here and there, Alan Scott: The Green Lantern's worst quality is in full swing here. We get Alan visiting male prostitutes on the waterfront, and it's only downhill from there.

What is it about a character that's seemed agnostic, if not downright indifferent to religion, in eighty-something years of publication that inspires the creative team here to base his internal turmoil around Catholic guilt? Why not the real life consequences that could affect the life of a young man as concerned with his career in radio as Alan had once been characterized to be? The Spectre's reassurance that homosexuality is not a sin is sort of undercut by the fact that he could've only known that about our hero because of his ability to sense sins in people, and it's further rendered meaningless by the most modern-sounding dialogue this side of any attempt at a 1940s period piece. The hug is pretty much insulting, and certainly doesn't help the sanitized feeling of this book as it resorts to children's cartoons' idea of conflict resolution. The 'twist' at the end is not even worth touching on.

And that's not even remarking on how at odds the Jim Corrigan presented here is with any previous version of him, not just lacking in the period-appropriate homophobia he'd demonstrated in John Ostrander's 1992 run but showing very little in common with any major incarnation of an endlessly interesting character.

In a book where transwomen are stereotypes in wigs with a guaranteed 'bad' end and gay intimacy has to be paid for, it's a little hard to see what's meant to be so appealing to LGBT audiences. Mr. Scott had had more heartfelt tales back when it was all told in subtext. more

It would be nice if Alan could do something other than standing around moping. Spectre and the Flash’s appearances added way more excitement for the story to me than Alan Scott.. the titular character.

I'm sorry Geoff. You screwed Alan up.

Boring and mediocre.

I have to say this issue gives us the most boring fight between Sinestro and Hal since Silver Age.
Yeah the art is good and the action scene is exciting. But the dialogues are just rough.
I think Adams is a great writer as he is very good at telling stories, but the problem is, he hasn't understood Hal that well. Nor has he understood the relationship between Hal and Sinestro and what makes it unique.
If they fight, I want to see how their past haunts them, how their visions conflict with each other.
However, all I can see is Sinestro suddenly snapped and Hal kept saying "Sinestro stop being mad!"
What's the difference here if we just change Sinestro into another random villain.
I hope Adams prepared something else in next issues. Or this is just disappointing. more

The writing is not bad but this is not Alan Scott. How can you explain Molly and Alan's children?