Green Lantern #40

Review by changingshades:

Green Lantern #40

Written by Geoff Johns
Art and cover by Philip Tan and Jonathan Glapion
Variant cover by Rodolfo Migliari

Size: 32 Pages

Price: $2.99


What truly horrible art. I really hate Tan's work in this issue. Everything seemed flat and bland. There was no real sense of the great space opera that Johns is trying to put forth. It's a real shame since the cover made it look like there was going to be this epic and awesome fight. The story was okay. The Blackest Night's free comic preview spoiled how Agent Orange's power works so what might have been a really cool reveal ended up being a  ho hum that's nice moment. I understand that Kyle and Guy are getting their screen time over in GLC but John needs more face time. And I would be remiss if I didn't mention how utterly ridiculous Star Sapphire's costume looks. I don't blame Tan for that though It's always been stupid. I was utterly unimpressed by the back up story. Johns used to be really impressive with his ability to make us care for even a minor character in a back up story in 4 panels or less but here I didn't garner any sort of a damn about Glommulus or whatever his name is.  6/10

Story: 3 - Good Art: 2 - Average

Comments

Touche'.

It seems evident that the point of the origin story is to indicate the instability of the orange light due to Larfreeze's apparant talking-to-himself. Unfortunately it was actually more engaging than the main story.

Posted by Mangaman on 05/01/09 at 05:12 AM

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