DCU Comic Book Reviews

GREEN LANTERN CORPS #18

Hammer To Fall

January 2008

Written by Peter Tomasi

Pencils by Patrick Gleason and Jamal Igle

Inks by Prentis Rollins and Jerry Ordway

Cover by Andy Kubert

Synopsis

Sodam Yat, Daxamite and the current host for Ion, battles Superman Prime in the middle of the Sinestro Corps War.  In the midst of the fight, Sodam recalls his youth on Daxam when he grew wanting to explore the skies, a dream his parents tried to destroy.  When he refused to give into the fear that grips most Daxamites, Sodam was given a power ring.  Now, Sodam Yat is losing the fight.  Superman Prime kills him and asks the Green Lantern Corps:  “Who’s Next?”

Review by Binkley (e-mail)

Perhaps it is the cynical, jaded reader in me, but the moment I read the first page of the flashback to Sodam’s youth, I knew the character was going to die at the end.  It is such a cliché to have a character about to die to recall their life (like it flashes before your eyes).  I suppose it is meant to give the ending some emotional weight and it worked to a small degree, but since I knew it was coming, it didn’t work that well.  However, I must admit that Tomasi does a competent job with the story (as does Igle with the art) and I liked the peek into the Daxamite culture, but you could just see where it was headed. 

The strength of the issue was Gleason’s art for the fight, which is quite good, showing what a brutal battle it is between the two.  The problem, however, is that the fight lasts the entire issue.  I don’t think we needed the entire issue for the fight.  Because it feels like it was stretched out, this installment of the Sinestro Corps story feels like filler.  The true ending to the story will appear in Green Lantern in issue #25, which could easily convey Sodam’s death without needing 22 pages, which makes me thing even more this is just filler (especially when you consider that issue is late, to boot).  It was fairly good filler, but fill nonetheless. 

What struck me the most about the fight was that Sodam is supposedly the host for Ion and a Green Lantern and, yet, at no point during the fight does he actually use his power ring.  There are no constructs, no green creatures or knights or whatever for Superman Prime to fight.  It is strictly a fist fight or a fight between two Kryptonian-powered people. 

 

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