For today’s post, we’ll look at the first issue of Geoff Johns’ run on Green Lantern. As a new series, you might expect that the comic provides a lot of exposition & setup for the epic story to come. It doesn’t really do that much if at all. The cover, painted by Alex Ross in his realistic style, features Green Lantern Hal Jordan flying among the clouds on a bright, sunny day, reaching out toward the reader.
As I’ve noted elsewhere, I own more Green Lantern comics than any other title/franchise, so I suppose it’s not surprising that the random selection of the comics I’m reviewing would hit multiple GL issues so early. Green Lantern 046 is smack in the middle of Geoff Johns’ epic space opera run on the character, so this issue is pretty much 100% action–a stark contrast to the laser-focused character development of some other comics I’ve discussed recently.
I think that this might be the newest of all the comics I’ve reviewed so far. Green Lanterns is a series starring Simon Baz and Jessica Cruz, two novice members of the Green Lantern Corps, each saddled with their own hang-ups about being a hero. They were paired up by Hal Jordan and tasked with protecting Earth while he went out into outer space to locate the rest of the Green Lantern Corps (as they had gone missing at the time).