Green Lanterns #1

Writer: Sam Humphries Artist: Robson Rocha Publisher: DC Comics Release Date: June 15, 2016

"RED PLANET" chapter one
New Lanterns Jessica Cruz and Simon Baz promised to protect others in brightest day or blackest night, but as "Red Planet" begins to rise, the partners find themselves confronted with a unimaginable threat from Bleez and the Red Lanterns!
THEY SAID IT: "I am psyched for GREEN LANTERNS!" says writer Sam Humphries. "Myself, Simon, and Jessica are all new to the DC Universe. We're gonna have a blast exploring it-if we don't destroy it first."

  • 6.0
    Gizmo Jun 19, 2016

    The inclusion of the FBI and ARGUS make things a little messy, and frankly, I don't have any interest in them sticking their fingers in a Green Lantern story. Simon and Jessica are playing off of each other better than they were in the Rebirth one-shot where they were just annoying. They still don't work well together, but that is how it should be because their characters barely know each other, there is plenty of time to build chemistry between them still. I'm looking forward to conflict with the Red Lanterns, though this Hell Tower is weird and I'm not sure what to make of it yet. Atrocitus threatening Bleez at the end for her failure was just awkward because she wasn't even on Earth. Hopefully this series can course correct and get streamlined, I think all the elements for a great comic are there, but it just needs some refinement. I wonder if this biweekly schedule is partly to blame for a lack of refinement, we'll see moving forward how other titles fare.

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