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.

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