War! Huh! What is it good for? Well, a rollicking issue of GLC for a start.
Its all-out chaos on Oa. With the Black Lantern assault in full swing, Peter Tomasi deftly jumps between the different main characters of the series, ensuring all get their chance to shine in this latest issue. While this issue doesn’t really move the story forward, it doesn’t matter, as its obvious that the focus for this issue was simply to focus on the Oa under seige aspect of the storyline. On one hand you’ve got Soranik and Iolande struggling to save the wounded members of the GLC (from the previous Sciencell riot), while Guy fights against Black Lantern Ke’han and Kyle is still facing off against Black Lantern Jade.
While neither part of the story gets more than a couple of pages, the story still succeeds in leaving you feeling everyone got their chance to shine. Its something that didn’t quite work in this month’s Green Lantern, where John only got a single page and that plot left me feeling unsatisfied. Here, despite the Lanterns being solely on the defensive, it still feels like each character had their due, and the story still moves forward, the Indigo-2 arriving in time to ward off the Black Lantern Children.
The Black Lantern children themselves are quite a dark creation. They’re obviously the children Kryb had been searching for with Miri, having now died of starvation. And this is after Kryb killing their (Green Lantern) parents and taking them for her own. They’re quite a powerful storyline of the dangers of being in the Corps, and with Kryb and Miri on their trail, it’ll be interesting to see how this plotline develops. If nothing else, we’ve now got an Indigo Lantern on Oa, and with a Sinestro Corps member and a Star Saphire in pursuit, then it points to things evening up against the Black Lanterns on Oa.
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