Once again DC goes to the well of depowering the Green Lanterns - one of the least compelling tropes for the franchise. The issue starts out without any clue as to what's going on, making the story a jarring start. The writing on the John Stewart story is very weak as well, so it doesn't make a good impression about the guy who's going to be writing Green Lantern post-Morrison. After seeing some of the stuff he's said online I can't say that DC has done a good job of picking new talent - he's more divisive than talented and I doubt I'll stick around for his run because I can't get behind that level of toxic fanboyism.
The idea of G'Nort as Salaak as cosmic tough guys without their rings is laughable and I don't know if Thorne is trying to be clever or if he just doesn't know the characters. Plus, without the power ring there's no language translation, so are we supposed to make a leap and think that everyone speaks English in space? I didn't like the art at all.
The Jessica Cruz story is okay if you can get past the idea that three Yellow Lanterns actually being held off by someone without a power ring. I think the writer did a better job at incorporating Jessica's mental illness that Sam Humphries did in his Green Lanterns run. Sadly the story is ended too abruptly.
The Guy Gardner story was a lot of fun, and in checking who the author was I learned that he wrote a number of episodes of the Green Lantern cartoon series, so I'm not surprised that this was the most enjoyable story in the issue. Like the Jessica Cruz story this one could have been better served with more pages.
The book as a whole is a miss, with more pages dedicated to the weakest story. If Thorne and Raney are the new creative team, I think we're in for some dark days for the Green Lantern franchise. more
By: Ernie Altbacker, Sami Basri
Released: Jan 13, 2021
Assigned to map and contact new lifeforms past the 3,600 known sectors of space protected by the Green Lantern Corps, John Stewart and an elite team of Lanterns are trapped behind enemy lines and fighting for their lives when the Central Power Battery goes dark and leaves the entire corps defenseless. Meanwhile, across the cosmos, Green Lantern Jes...