GREEN LANTERN #42 REVIEW

[Walt Kneeland]

Review by: Walt Kneeland (walt.kneeland@gmail.com )
Quick Rating: Good
Story Title: Agent Orange part four

Hal and the GL Corps fight Larfleeze and his Orange Lanterns.

Writer: Geoff Johns
Pencils: Philip Tan & Eddy Barrows
Inks: Jonathan Glapion, Ruy Jose
Color: Nei Ruffino, Rod Reis
Letters: Rob Leigh
Assoc. Editor: Adam Schlagman
Editor: Eddie Berganza
Cover Art: Philip Tan, Jonathan Glapion, Nei Ruffino (variant by Eddy Barrows & Nei Ruffino)
Publisher: DC Comics

This issue resumes Hal's struggle with Larfleeze over the Blue ring, as we see the two trade colors' influences a couple times. When the Guardians step in to put an end to the battle, a new deal is struck with the Orange that would seem to be a sticking point in what's going to become the war of light. We see some development in other plots as well, as John Stewart faces Fatality, and a couple of GLs locate the Black power battery--which houses the corpse of the Anti-Monitor which they've been sent to recover.

The art continues to impress me with this issue. Though I particularly enjoy Van Sciver and Reis' work, Tan & Co. have been providing a consistent visual style of their own that seems to be quite compatible with the others' work, maintaining a consistency that does nothing but add to my enjoyment of the book's imagery.

The story is wearing a bit thin, and as with several recent issues, I find myself quite impatient to just get on with the Blackest Night story that's been floating out there for the last year-and-a-half-plus. However, while the story wears thin, there's no denying the importance of all this material that continues to build on everything that's come before, moving us toward that story. The conflict's been building, and we've been seeing more and more interaction between the wielders of the different colored rings, and this issue kicks off some further hostility between corps.

Johns has done a fantastic job of ratcheting things up as the story's built, and of showing simply how everything can fit together going back to stuff set before even Hal Jordan wore a ring.

I'm not sure if this is to be the final issue of this arc, nor if there's one more issue of this title before we're officially into Blackest Night. As a jumping on point, this isn't the best, though if you can locate the earlier issues of this arc, it's a good read and introduces Agent Orange (Larfleeze) and his corps.


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[Gabriel Sosa]

Those hipocrite guardians, oh but their due is coming of that I am certain

[Magnus2k]

Excellent issue. My goodness, I can't wait for Blackest Night. Isnt it funny how both DC and Marvels biggest events the past few years, the better ones have all been space involved?

[WhereIsTony]

Still enjoying this but, I am getting increasingly worried.

I hope

the sudden rise of so many corp, and the fact the hal is going to have used each and every type will be more than coincidence after coincidence