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Great storytelling and awesome art makes this the very best story from DC Comics in the last year. I can't wait to read Vol. 2 and Sinestro Corps Tales. Geoff Johns really makes a good story; all his run in the GL regular series has been remarkable.
I follow a lot of series and characters from DC and this is an outstanding book. Countdown? Very bad. Grant Morrison's Batman? Absolutely dissapointing (and Batman's my favorite character). Green Lantern is the title to follow.
I recomend this book to everyone who likes a good plot, action, adventure, drama, heroism, some suspense, and off course, terrific storytelling.
This is Geoff Johns "Star Wars".
The quality of the hardcover book is great.
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This first trade chronicling the Sinestro Corps War knocked my socks off! It is so far beyond anything I have recently read that I can't even begin to compare it with any other comic currently in print. Only something as epic as the Star Wars films come to mind. Broad in scope, rife with action scenes and beautiful splash pages courtesy of artists Ethan Van Sciver and Ivan Reis, this Green Lantern trade holds a special place on my bookshelf, and what a handsome hardcover it is. Bloodthirsty space battles and incredibly shocking plot twists as well as wonderful characters populate the pages, and I gleefully read the entire trade through in one sitting. After that, I got up to make myself a coffee, lounged around for about ten minutes contemplating what I had just finished, then went straight back and read it again. Honestly, it's that good. Make no mistake: if you buy this book you definitely won't be disappointed. But, taking into account the readers who might not be as familiar with Green Lantern as ardent GL fans are, some parts, especially early on in the book, might prove confusing. Even so, there is more than enough story to draw you in and keep you reading until the final page, and then there's still the second trade which concludes this awesome epic in the annals of the GL Corps that is yet to be released, hopefully in June or July 2007. To give you a rough outline of the story, Hal Jordan (once THE greatest Green Lantern) faces the forces of Sinestro, his arch enemy, who wields a ring similar to Hal's own, except that it emits yellow energy and is powered by fear, whereas Green Lantern power rings are powered by will. Sinestro's Corps consist of the most fearsome beings in the galaxy, and they come in all grotesque shapes and horrific sizes. Everything from viruses like Despotellis to evil entities like Parallax and monstrous behemoths like Arkillo make life hard for the Green Lantern Intergalactic Police Corps, and where the GLs have their cosmically powerful Guardians as mentors, you'll never believe who the Sinestro Corps' Guardian is! I don't want to say too much, so I will cut this review short...but not before I state yet again that this book is an absolute MUST read for any comic fan.
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The only thing I know about the Green Lanterns was from the cartoon from the 80s and the recent Justice League and Justice League Unlimited cartoons. Still, I took the chance and bought this graphic novel and am very impressed. (I found out later that having read a few other graphic novels involving the anti-Monitor did help since I wouldn't have known that he was a big-shot otherwise.) I find it even more engaging than the Planet Hulk story, which was also very well thought out. I am looking forward to volume 2 and it is definitely a must-buy for me now that I have read vol 1.
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Dc has handled quite a few characters and events wrong in the past but, what they are doing with the Green Lantern Mythos right now is what makes comics great. The Green Lantern and GLC book have been building to this for awhile now dropping hints to set it up. In this book you get to see the emergence of the greatest threat in the DC Universe, The Sinestro Corps. While this book is great I'd have to say you need to pick up the rest of the GLC and GL graphic novels from the post Infinite Crisis series.
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I enjoyed the story for the most part, but two issues kept me from loving it. One, a hefty amount of DCU knowledge is required. If you don't know who Hank Henshaw or Ranx The Sentient City are (I didn't), be prepared to hit Wikipedia every few pages. Two, especially during the battle scenes (which are most of the story), the artwork is so dense I often had difficulty deciphering where the scene was taking place, much less what was actually going on. It got a bit exhausting and I found myself longing for an establishing shot. But on the whole I found it an entertaining tale, and I look forward to Part 2.
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