It’s
training day for the newly formed GL Corps, several thousand millenia in the
past. The original Lanterns are completely unfamiliar with what being a GL is
all about, and have more selfish thoughts – wealth, power, comfort – to turn
the ring toward. Jessica is trying to be an effective training officer, and
Simon has precious little at hand to sway the others, his own ring having
explodiated.
An entire
issue of poorly developed lectures and ineffective exercises, culminating in a
catastrophe so vast, there’s no way these self-involved newbies can’t get on
board. Yes, it has political overtones, folks. Consider yourself warned.
We’re here
at the birth of the Green Lantern Corps, and no doubt Simon and Jessica will be
a bit of a paradox by influencing an entity which has come to define them as
heroes, thereby creating Moebius strip of culture. Which came first, the hero
or the ring?
The artwork
is typical for what we’ve come to expect from the series, as Pansica and Ferreira
develop a firmer grasp on depicting the near-magical scope of the power rings,
as well as the cosmos at large. Humphries, however, may have stumbled into a
rut, saying that a GL needs to have imagination in their constructs. But his
loop hole is not so much him saying it, as having Jessica (a less experienced
GL) say it.
Rating: 6/10