Well, its been a good couple of weeks, with Green Lantern #28 last week, and Green Lantern Corps #22 this week.
As shown in the preview, we got our first Red Lanterns in GL. The Empire of Tears are setup as the Guardians for the Red Lanterns, and (unsurprisingly) Laira became the first recruit we’ve seen.
The interesting thing was Laira’s recruitment. In a similar way to the yellow rings, the red rings don’t give you a lot of choice in your recruitment (athough Batman was able to force off a yellow ring, using a combination of will-power, and previous exposure to a GL ring). However, the red rings are a lot more violent. It looked like it was virtually burning itself onto her finger, and then she started vomitting up the red energy. It was an incredibly powerful scene, and I’m really looking forward to seeing more about the red lanterns in the upcoming story arc.
And, of course, we also got a tidbit about the Orange Lanterns (it’ll be interesting to see if most of the Corps are identified by their colours - or if we’ll get more different names a la the Sinestro Corps). I’ll be interested to see what happens with them, and when we’ll start seeing hints about the Indigo Lanterns.
This week, we got the second part of the Boodikka Alpha Lantern story. I’ve basically covered my feelings about this arc in a previous post (in a nutshell, I’m not a huge fan of the character, but I think its good to spend a couple of issues focusing on other Lanterns, and its a good companion piece to the main Alpha Lantern storyline in GL), however I’ll also say again that I really enjoyed the writing and art in these issues.
I hope Sterling Gates gets another GL gig soon (maybe similarly, filling in on a 2-issue arc spotlighting a GL outside of Kyle and Guy), and I really liked Nelson’s artwork. More from this team please.
Tags: Alpha Lanterns, Comics, DC Comics, Green Lantern, Red Lanterns
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