Very disappointing that Ram V totally messed up with Hal Jordan and John Stewart's characteristics. Hal is all about defying authority while John is the one who takes orders and follows the rules. Ram V reversed their roles just to prop up John and make Hal look bad. I feel that DC writers these days just can't write John Stewart without shitting on Hal Jordan.

This is one of the cringiest books I've read in quite some time. Keli is by far the poorest GL character since the creation of Simon Baz, so having both of them lead half of this issue was of little interest - and their half of the book was about as boring as the Geoff Thorne run. Meanwhile Guy Gardner jobs for Evil Star and the reveal of Narf's talents is too little, too late.

Meanwhile the art looks like Manga, and not good Manga at that. more

Well done, Al Ewing. The greatest Green Lantern punched and lectured by a shit character who can't sell her own book. Is that what you said "Absolute Universe is about modernizing the heroes while staying true to their core"? That is how you stay true to the core of Green Lantern?

Hilarious that Morgan Hampton hates hal jordan while using evil star, a villain in hal's rogue gallery.

A significant progress. And I've always loved to see Phantom Strangern and Hal teaming up.

DC should have known better than constantly making Hal a pathetic villain while price gouging his variant covers to make money.

Not bad. For the first time in a long while, Hal actually does something,
I can't help but find it amusing that on a crucial Corps meeting, somehow every member present is from Earth, including two actual children. Shame that Green Lantern, once a franchise represents space fantasy, now has become a private backyard of human chauvinism.

Isn’t the point of having a separate Green Lantern Corps book to have this be a Hal Jordan book?

That hater Morgan Hampton needs to fuck off.
And the scene of John and Shayera hiding in the closet is way too cringy and gross. It's like a creepy sex fantasy of a pathetic incel.

Boring and slow and lack of progress.
And it’s still hard to understand which genius came up with this idea that since Hal’s book sells well so it must be brilliant to shrink his role in comics.

Very disappointing that Jeremy Adams chose to pander to the DCAU fans who don't buy comics and ruin Shayera's character development. John/Shayera is just a shit pairng that has done dirty to the Hawks franshise. Also it is really a bummer that while every fan wants to see is Hal/Sinestro dynamics, Jeremy Adams stole Hal's frenemy relationship with Sinestro and gave that to John. Come on, hasn't John taken enough things away from Hal? more

Why the hell is Jessica Cruz giving speeches to all those senior lanterns? Who does she think she is?
Also way too many earth humams. When I read a Green Lantern books I expect to see aliens and weird cosmic stuff. This book is crowded with earth lanterns makes it so boring.

The writing and artwork are both okay. There are a couple of things that lower the score for me. What I thought made Geoff John’s run on Green Lantern good was that he had Hal as the focal point of the story and all the other lanterns as secondary characters. That makes sense to me. Here there seem to be many stories going on with multiple characters and too many Green Lanterns results in making the story boring. Also why are all the Green Lanterns hanging around Oa? Shouldn’t they be out patrolling their sectors? Isn’t that their job? Maybe there is an explanation somewhere in the books as I haven’t been faithful to this particular run, but kind of a head scratcher. more

I have high expectations for this book but it just keeps disappointing me. I’m sorry. Since the more we buy, the less Hal we get, I don’t see the point of supporting this book anymore.

Did adams know Hal is supposed to be the protagonist of the book? 3 points for Sinestro. Rest is abomination.

Hi mark I would appreciate it if you don’t let Hal be mind controlled everytime he appears.

I'm 100% sure Geoff was thinking of Hal Jordan when he wrote Rook.

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?