Well, the war between the Green Lantern Corps and the Sinestro Corps is well and truely underway. The one-shot was just cracking stuff, with fantastic art by Ethan Van Skiver, and Geoff Johns’ story really started strong with Ion defeated by the entire Sinestro Corps.

The second part was definitely a lot slower, although no less enjoyable. The emphasis in this issue being Hal Jordan’s characterisation, and a lot of obvious build up for the Hal/Parallax rematch, with Hal having to face his two greatest fears (his father’s death, and his betrayal of the Corps at the hands of Parallax).

Kyle as Parallax is an interesting idea. I don’t believe at all that its going to be permanent. Rather, I suspect Geoff Johns is going to use it to allow Hal to forgive himself for what happened. As he sees what Kyle does under Parallax’s influence, I suspect he’ll come to realise he’s not truely to blame and finally move on from that part of his life.

I like the way Johns has handled the fallout from Parallax. It would’ve been too easy after Rebirth to just sweep it under the rug and blame it all on the big, yellow space bug. But with Hal still blaming himself for what happened I think Geoff Johns did well building on that period of the Green Lantern mythos rather than just ignoring it.

Turns out Morrisons is a regular treasure trove of old cartoons on DVD. In addition to stocking Transformers: Robots in Disguise and MASK, I managed to pick up a triple-pack of the He-Man DVDs for only £5.99. Its a great trip down memory lane

It also re-affirms what a great re-imagining the 2002 series was. They really operated under the “if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it” mentality for that show, and only did minor updates to the characters to bring them into the 21st century. They stuck to a lot of the underlying plots and characterisations from the original show.

Nice souls that they are, Blizzard sent me a free copy of the WoW expansion: The Burning Crusade complete with 10 days free gametime.

Sadly I think that having 2 MMOs on the go is more than enough at the moment (and that’s ignoring all the other games I want to find time to play). However, life’s not affording me much gaming time at the moment.

I did play WoW for a bit, and it was quite fun. Sadly the minute I had to go into a new zone, I found myself unable to move without being slaughtered, which really kind’ve spoiled the game for me. Although I do team sometimes, I generally play solo quite a lot, and I got the vibe that World of Warcraft wasn’t really going to suit solo players.