It was a great comics week last week. First up was Final Crisis #1, which I’ve already talked about and I enjoyed.

Next up was Green Lantern 31.   I admit, I wasn’t really looking forward to the retelling of Hal’s origin.   However Johns is doing a reasonable job of interweaving in new elements that play into the Blackest Night prophecy, while also establishing a new friendship between Abin Sur and Sinestro that’s added a new level to the mythology.

I do still hold onto my reservations about the “Hal Origin” parts of the story.  Most of them are things we’ve seen before and don’t really add anything new.   Granted the removal of the drunk driving from Emerald Dawn will please many (I personally enjoyed that series, but I can see the complaint), however some of Johns’ small retcons do niggle me in a fanboy way (no GL symbol on first getting the ring was previously a post-Rebirth thing - now its been retconned in as the way its always been.  Similarly all the GLs now sport the Rebirth-tweaking of Hal’s logo.  Really small things, but they do pull me out of the story slightly.  Still, this is New Earth, not the post-Crisis DCU).

I am enjoying the arc though, however without the Blackest Night stuff, it would be a fairy dull aftermath to the Sinestro Corps.

Morrison and Quitely’s All Star Superman had its penultimate issue hit the stands, and once again, its a doozy, that sees Superman putting his affairs in order as he knows he’s getting closer to death.

Everthing about this series just fits the “All Star” tag perfectly, and in a way that All Star Batman & Robin can only dream of.   While that later title is a parody of the Batman mythos, this really embraces everything that makes Superman popular, and then ramps it up.  Definitely a series I’ll pick the trades up for once the final issue is out.  If Final Crisis is half as good as this has been, then we’re all in for a treat.

Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic #29 sees the main story moving on now that the crossover Vektor has moved onto the Dark Times title.  The main cast are back in force, and picking up from the plot threads sown in Vektor, Zhane and the crew head to the Sith artifacts repository held by the Jedi Covenant.

While the art has improved from the Vektor crossover, its still a far cry from the quality this series had when it started, which is a shame.  However, unemcumbered by the crossover, it was great to have Jarael and the rest of the regulars rejoining the action.

While John Jackson Miller did his best to tie Vektor into his ongoing plot threads, it still had felt like too much of a diversion from this title’s story, so its great to have all the plot threads returning.   There’s definitely a feeling from this arc of things moving towards some kind of endgame.  Lucien Dray is now on the Jedi Council, although Master Vandar is smart enough to know that they need to keep an eye on them.  And with Zhane now on the offensive, determined to prove the machinations of the Covenant, clear his name, and bring them to justice for murdering his classmates, it really feels like its all kicking off.