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GREEN LANTERN CORPS #17

Endgame

December 2007

Written by Dave Gibbons

Pencils by Alixe, Angel Unzueta, Dustin Nguyen, Patrick Gleason

Inks by Vincente Cifuentes, Rodney Ramos, Rob Hunter, Marlo Alquiza, Prentis Rollins

Cover by Patrick Gleason and Prentis Rollins

Synopsis

On Oa, the Guardians finally realize that the target of the Sinestro Corps is not their planet, but rather Earth.  The Guardians know this is where they must defeat Sinestro.  To that end, they decide to reassign the Ion power.  On Earth, Salaak assigns the Lanterns to different locations to combat the Sinestro Corps.  After fighting a little while, the Lanterns are ordered to New York City.  There, the Anti-Monitor and Sinestro arrive for their final assault.  Sodam Yat attacks the Anti-Monitor, but is zapped out of the air.  However, Yat charges right back and attacks once more and gets zapped again.  He rises once more.  This time he is given the power of Ion.  Just then, Superman-Prime attacks. 

Review by Binkley (e-mail)

This was a good issue and a strong inclusion to the overall storyline, but a lot of this issue is marking time until the ending with Ion and Superman-Prime.  The Lanterns arrive on Earth, split up for some random fight sequences (or for a chit-chat with Guy Gardner) before getting the call to meet up in New York City.  It would’ve been just as easy to begin the issue with the Lanterns arriving on Earth and New York City just as Sinestro gets there (although I have to wonder, I thought he got there before everyone else did; what was he waiting for?).  Despite that, I still liked a lot of this issue; the fight sequences were fun to read (dropping an aircraft on Arkillo was a great moment).  The fight scenes give this entire storyline a broader scope to the war.  Geoff Johns in Green Lantern has focused on the main characters while Gibbons in this title has really brought out the war itself.  There are tons of characters and a lot of action, but Gibbons has done a good job to keep it controlled and readable, although the art by four different pencilers in this issue was a little jarring, especially since it didn’t look like it was divided by sequence.  Some of the characters and scenes look vastly different from page to page, and sometimes even panel to panel.  It is a shame, really, that this title doesn’t have one penciler to give it a visual imprint the way Ivan Reis has done with Green Lantern.  A more consistent visual approach would done wonders for this title.   

 

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