![]() Easily the weakest of the GL New 52 titles. All the splash pages look like the same type of Power Ranger assemblage, and the over use of all the corps colors make the action sequences messy at time. The super saturated colors of all the different corps just get in the way of everything. Invictus is a decent villain for an opening arc, but he's pretty lame as a Warhammer 40k meets Diablo III steroided space-angel dude.Ī lot of people are digging the art for this collection, but I wasn't. It's an interesting story granted, but I can't help but feels it works to dilute the overall impact and meaning of each individual corps now that a few of their members are able to work together. The plots are almost exactly identical save for the characters. This is basically the plot of Justice League International vol 1 spliced with the Green Lantern mythos. A lot of the story deals with all the various one-dimensional emotional lanterns trying to get along. The story is full of Guardian deceit (typical), and a universe level threat complete from a dude named Invictus. In the process he creates a forced team up of all of the lanterns of the corresponding rings he's sort of steals. It's not really a GL book, although it's in the GL sector of DC's diverse ecosystem.ĭC has taken Kyle Raynor – the perpetual worst Green Lantern in history, and given him control of a green, yellow, red, blue, indigo, orange, and pink ring. Green Lantern: New Guardians should really be called Emotional Spectrum Rangers DCU New 52. If you like Kyle as GL more than I do, you may love it. If you're into any of the Green Lantern books, check this out. I rounded my average down for this site and a couple others. Because of all the peaks and valleys in quality, I have to give this book a 3 star art score. He's capable of really good art, but rarely ever turns into back to back pages or panels that are equally as good. Then a panel or two that are decent looking before going back to something that looks rushed. I've seen his art before and I've never been highly impressed by his work. Tomasi helmed GL story, but it is still pretty good. The story is nowhere near as good as a Geoff Johns penned Lantern story. Glommy isn't a huge part of the story, but he steals the show later in the book and becomes the one character I look forward to seeing more of in the future. The people at DC gave the Red Lanterns their own book to start the New 52 and there are a couple of other Green Lantern titles, but the rest of the Lanterns Corps would be highly underused were it not for this series. As stated earlier, I don't really like Kyle, and it would have taken the most amazing story ever to keep me interested had he been the front and center the whole time. Tony Bedard, the writer for the series, kept me interested in the story, but that was mainly due to the fact that all of the Lanterns Corps were represented. ![]() The Guardians of Oa, Larfleeze, and Atrocitus all make appearances too before the story reveals who is the main villain of the arc. Glommullus from Orange, and one of the Indigo tribe are also involved. As is Arkillo from the Sinestro Corps and Bleez from the Red Lanterns. Walker from the Blue lanterns is present. Luckily for me, members of each of the other Corps are all equally showcased. I probably wouldn't have liked this series at all if it focused solely on Kyle. The only GL that I like less than him is John Stewart. In fact, I started 46 of the original 52 titles in the New 52 universe before coming to this one simply because of the fact that I've never been much of a Kyle Rayner fan. It took me forever to get around to reading this series. Recommended for fans of any of these characters! During a conversation with Fatality he says "and you are a walking contradiction Fatality, you spent years hunting the green lanterns, yet here you are with blood on your hands, wielding the violet light of love." Munk is supposed to be the living embodiment of compassion and he says that? My only Gripe is with the Purple Lantern Munk. Having all these characters try to work together when they are each so different from the other is the best part about this book apart from the fact Larfleeze is in it! The art is also solid throughout and beautiful to look at with all the different colours representing each Lantern Corps. The story is well written and continues through out to keep me interested. When 6 of the other power rings from the emotional spectrum show up on Kyle Rayners front door he has to try and figure what the hell is going on along with Red Lantern Bleez, Yellow Lantern Arkillo, Blue Lantern Saint Walker, Purple Lantern Munk, Violet Lantern Fatality and the Orange Construct Glomulus. This is one of the better New 52 Lantern runs.
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