Green Lantern Corps Recommendations?
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Hmmm, well not in TPB yet but the Sinestro Corp War was done extremely well...
The two volumes of the Sinestro Corp Wars are now available. Just finished the second book. I recommend those as well.
I don't know if they "match" or exceed the quality, but you might want to check out the trade paperbacks of the current Green Lantern Corps series. The stories that led up to the "Sinestro Corps War" drew heavily from Alan Moore's stories. Ranx, the Children of the White Lobe, The Blackest Night Prophecy, Sodam Yat, Mogo, etc. are all integral to the plot.
Green Lantern Corps Vol 1
Green Lantern Corps, Vol 2.
The second trade, in particular leads into The Sinestro Corps, Vol 1 and Volume 2.
Incidentally, the current arc in Green Lantern[/url] is about Hal's origin and has ties to the Blackest Night prophecy as well.
Green Lantern Corps Vol 1
Green Lantern Corps, Vol 2.
The second trade, in particular leads into The Sinestro Corps, Vol 1 and Volume 2.
Incidentally, the current arc in Green Lantern[/url] is about Hal's origin and has ties to the Blackest Night prophecy as well.
Green Lantern: Rebirth and GLC: Recharge are the two collected minis that rebooted the GLC franchise for the new millenium, both are great. I've been enjoying the entire run of the new GLC, but the Sinestro Corps War was the high point. And like someone said, it's basically all a sequel to those little Alan Moore stories in that DCU trade. Hell, even Bolphangaa (sp) returns.
^ - Is that the bounty hunter who goes in search of Mogo without knowing what Mogo is?
It must have been in a Green Lantern Corps series. I have been slowly catching up on the trades for Green Lantern ( Rebirth, No Fear, Revenge of the Green Lanterns, Wanted, The Sinestro Corps War V1, The Sinestro Corps War V2, Tales of the Sinestro Corps, Secret Origin, Rage of the Red Lanterns) - it is a huge arc that Geoff Johns has mapped out - almost reads like a TV series where you have through-lines, continuity etc. And very interesting ideas to read, most of it is done really well. The art also is not bad (except for a brief time in Wanted (I think) where Carol Ferris again becomes the Star Sapphire).
Two things tho -
Rage of the Red Lanterns and also Secret Origin takes us back to Ysmault. Which is the planet that I first read about in a collection of Alan Moore's stories (DC Universe: The Stories of Alan Moore). I don't know whether it was a deliberate choice but Ysmault doesn't look at all like how we see it in the Alan Moore story. In Alan Moore's story, there are these mind-bending weird bridges, spans connected very haphazards. The whole effect is very eerie to read. You know that this is a weird planet. In the recent storyline tho' - Ysmault doesn't look very eerie at all. Just another random planet. There is no "look" to it. Also the prose is all wrong. And ...
spoilers......
Qull of the Five Inversions who so masterfully destroys Abin Sur is killed in a really stupid manner by Atrocitus. We have no idea if Roixeaume (another being present in Ysmault in the original story by Alan Moore) is alive or not. The new books also make their awareness of the future tie in to Entrail Reading - Atrocitus does it at least 3 times in the books. It kinda "debases" their villainy in my mind. Qull was of a subtle mind. Atrocitus is almost a one-note bad-evil guy. But most of the prophecy mentioned by Alan Moore takes place in The Sinestro Corps War trilogy ( i.e the parts which reference Ranx, the Sentient City attacking Mogo, the Children of Inner Lobe and the plan of exploding a blink bomb at Mogo's core). However parts of it are obviously not there. e.g. Alan's prophecy talks about the Empire of Tears (Qull, Roixeaume etc are what remains of the Empire after the Guardians take 'em down) joining with other enemies of the Guardians/Green Lanterns to start the Blackest night. That really hasn't happened (might be happening in Blackest Night - but it's not available in Trades as yet.)
The other thing has to do with Hal Jordan - who is the principal protagonist of most of these stories. He's not a sympathetic character at all - based on the writing itself. We've gone over his childhood, the link with Carol Ferris, the love of flying, his family life, his army life, Abin Sur and joining the Green Lantern corps, first meetings with Sinestro, but as a reader, I still don't "like" him. I am not quite sure why that is - a lack of warmth in writing the principal character. I think it might be a flaw in Geoff Johns' writing. I don't think this is how I used to think of Hal Jordan before now. Now there doesn't seem to be any selfless-ness in anything that he does.
It must have been in a Green Lantern Corps series. I have been slowly catching up on the trades for Green Lantern ( Rebirth, No Fear, Revenge of the Green Lanterns, Wanted, The Sinestro Corps War V1, The Sinestro Corps War V2, Tales of the Sinestro Corps, Secret Origin, Rage of the Red Lanterns) - it is a huge arc that Geoff Johns has mapped out - almost reads like a TV series where you have through-lines, continuity etc. And very interesting ideas to read, most of it is done really well. The art also is not bad (except for a brief time in Wanted (I think) where Carol Ferris again becomes the Star Sapphire).
Two things tho -
Rage of the Red Lanterns and also Secret Origin takes us back to Ysmault. Which is the planet that I first read about in a collection of Alan Moore's stories (DC Universe: The Stories of Alan Moore). I don't know whether it was a deliberate choice but Ysmault doesn't look at all like how we see it in the Alan Moore story. In Alan Moore's story, there are these mind-bending weird bridges, spans connected very haphazards. The whole effect is very eerie to read. You know that this is a weird planet. In the recent storyline tho' - Ysmault doesn't look very eerie at all. Just another random planet. There is no "look" to it. Also the prose is all wrong. And ...
spoilers......
Qull of the Five Inversions who so masterfully destroys Abin Sur is killed in a really stupid manner by Atrocitus. We have no idea if Roixeaume (another being present in Ysmault in the original story by Alan Moore) is alive or not. The new books also make their awareness of the future tie in to Entrail Reading - Atrocitus does it at least 3 times in the books. It kinda "debases" their villainy in my mind. Qull was of a subtle mind. Atrocitus is almost a one-note bad-evil guy. But most of the prophecy mentioned by Alan Moore takes place in The Sinestro Corps War trilogy ( i.e the parts which reference Ranx, the Sentient City attacking Mogo, the Children of Inner Lobe and the plan of exploding a blink bomb at Mogo's core). However parts of it are obviously not there. e.g. Alan's prophecy talks about the Empire of Tears (Qull, Roixeaume etc are what remains of the Empire after the Guardians take 'em down) joining with other enemies of the Guardians/Green Lanterns to start the Blackest night. That really hasn't happened (might be happening in Blackest Night - but it's not available in Trades as yet.)
The other thing has to do with Hal Jordan - who is the principal protagonist of most of these stories. He's not a sympathetic character at all - based on the writing itself. We've gone over his childhood, the link with Carol Ferris, the love of flying, his family life, his army life, Abin Sur and joining the Green Lantern corps, first meetings with Sinestro, but as a reader, I still don't "like" him. I am not quite sure why that is - a lack of warmth in writing the principal character. I think it might be a flaw in Geoff Johns' writing. I don't think this is how I used to think of Hal Jordan before now. Now there doesn't seem to be any selfless-ness in anything that he does.
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Following up to my own post.
Like Mr. Light pointed out - Bolphunga The Unrelenting returns in the GLC: Recharge trade - I just finished reading it. It does seem a little gratuitous the way Geoff Johns even gets Bolphunga who was first mentioned in a somewhat funny little piece about Mogo (the planet) Green Lantern that Alan Moore had written called "Mogo doesn't socialize" I think. The more I think about Alan Moore the more I get intrigued to try reading some of his other works. Besides "DC Universe: Stories of Alan Moore", I did read Watchmen (but it was a few months before the movie came out and on reading it I didn't "understand" the love for the Watchmen) and The Killing Joke (which has glorious artwork). Seeing the amount of things that Geoff Johns has reused - pretty much everything including Ranx - the Sentient City, the blink bombs, the Sodam Yat as the greatest GL of them all and even Bolphunga now.
And now with the IGN preview for Green Lantern 47 out (btw, heavy spoilers for Blackest Night at that link), it seems that things are going to revisit some more of the Alan Moore created characters. And I'm really excited - can't wait to read the trades for Blackest Night when it comes out now. I hope Geoff uses this "resurrection" the right way. If he gets this right, then Rage of the Red Lanterns can be forgiven... and it's sub-title of Prelude to Blackest Night really gains focus too.
Like Mr. Light pointed out - Bolphunga The Unrelenting returns in the GLC: Recharge trade - I just finished reading it. It does seem a little gratuitous the way Geoff Johns even gets Bolphunga who was first mentioned in a somewhat funny little piece about Mogo (the planet) Green Lantern that Alan Moore had written called "Mogo doesn't socialize" I think. The more I think about Alan Moore the more I get intrigued to try reading some of his other works. Besides "DC Universe: Stories of Alan Moore", I did read Watchmen (but it was a few months before the movie came out and on reading it I didn't "understand" the love for the Watchmen) and The Killing Joke (which has glorious artwork). Seeing the amount of things that Geoff Johns has reused - pretty much everything including Ranx - the Sentient City, the blink bombs, the Sodam Yat as the greatest GL of them all and even Bolphunga now.
And now with the IGN preview for Green Lantern 47 out (btw, heavy spoilers for Blackest Night at that link), it seems that things are going to revisit some more of the Alan Moore created characters. And I'm really excited - can't wait to read the trades for Blackest Night when it comes out now. I hope Geoff uses this "resurrection" the right way. If he gets this right, then Rage of the Red Lanterns can be forgiven... and it's sub-title of Prelude to Blackest Night really gains focus too.
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