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I must admit, I think the initial run of three mini-series that tied into Blackest Night had an advantage over these later entries.  With the first 4 issues concerned only with Black Lanterns attacking and building up to Nekron’s return, they were freer to tell a story within themselves, unshackled by any other events in [...]

Since the two are closely linked, I’ll start by covering Green Lantern #48 which finishes filling in the story of how the Corps leaders get together, as Atrocitus and Larfleeze are saved from the Black Lanterns on Okaraa by the timely arrival of Hal, Sinestro, Carol, Indigo-1 and Saint Walker (with Ganthet and Sayd along [...]

Green Lantern #45 is a heckuva busy issue.  With last month’s Green Lantern #44 Geoff Johns was busy kick-starting Blackest Night by focusing on the Hal/Barry fight with the Black Lantern J’onn.   With Blackest Night now in full swing, he turns his attention back to the war of light, revisiting the various plot threads [...]

After two years of buildup, Blackest Night has finally arrived.
As Ganthet predicted during the Sinestro Corps War, the other Corps have risen and the War of Light is now in full swing, with the Alpha Lanterns attacking the Red Lanterns on Ysmault, Ganthet’s own Blue Lanterns under seige from Larfleeze and the Orange Lanterns, and [...]

Its another cracking finale to a Green Lantern arc, this time offering a little more closure than the Rage of the Red Lanterns arc, which followed much more directly into Agent Orange.
The resolution to last issue’s cliffhanger caught me by surprise, but made complete sense given what we’d previously seen of the blue rings.  However, [...]

While Hal still struggles with his blue ring, and the rest of the Corps and Guardians struggle against Larfleeze’s Orange Lanterns, we find out of the truth behind the ban on the Vega System.
This is very much a talking issue.  Aside from (as predicted) Fatality flying in to rescue John from the Orange Lanterns, the [...]

Picking up from the preview from earlier in this week, the GLC and Guardians are cleaning up the Vega System while the head to Okaraa to confront Larfleeze and the Orange Lanterns.
This issue is very much focused on introducing the nature of the Orange Lanterns, which is unlike any other Corps we’ve encountered. As [...]

IGN have put up a preview of this week’s issue #40, and it looks great
Philip Tan’s artwork continues to shine in this storyline, and I love the scenes of the GLC arriving to clean up the Vega System, now that its no longer off limits.   The implications this will have with the [...]

IGN have put up the solicits for the first month (July) of Blackest Night, and its looking very, very good.
A very interesting aspect to these solicits its the two issues of GL in July. Hopefully this is a sign of Doug Mahnke having had a headstart on the art duties, and we know from [...]

Continuing on from where Rage of the Red Lanterns left off, the new arc in Green Lantern, called Agent Orange picks up with the Controllers in the Vega System looking for the Orange Lantern, while Hal is on Odym trying to get Ganthet to remove the Blue ring he’s stuck with.
However Ganthet is powerless to [...]