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GREEN LANTERN CORPS #23

RingQuest, Part Two

June 2008

Written by Peter J. Tomasi

Pencils by Patrick Gleason

Inks by Prentis Rollins

Cover by Patrick Gleason and Prentis Rollins

Synopsis

[Continued from issue #20]

In Sector 2261, Mongul prepares to find the nearest member of the Sinestro Corps.  In Sector 3550, Mongul finds Duel Eknham.  Mongul asks Duel, will you follow him or will you die?  Meanwhile, the Guardians orders several members of the corps back to Oa.  There, they are told they have been tasked with finding the yellow power rings in the Vega system.  In Sector 2828, the team splits up into teams of two to search for power rings.  Kyle Rayner and Guy Gardner find a ring, as do Vath and Isamot.  Sadam Yat and Arisa come across an institution for the criminal insane, where they find 1,012 dead bodies.  When they fail to report, the rest of the team decides to find them, against the wishes of the Guardians.  In Sectro 2261, Mongul discharges his multiple yellow power rings to the core of his home planet while nearby Duel Eknham watches as he holds onto Yat and Arisa.

Review by Binkley (e-mail)

Despite the fact that this is the second part of the storyline, this feels like the beginning of the story with the traditional gather the troops issue.  The troops, in this case, are the same characters that have been populating this title since the beginning of the series.  It was nice to se all of them in the same place, and the same story, for the first time.  One of the problems I had with earlier issues was that the multi-story issues tended to fracture the plotting and pacing of the stories.  Tomasi removes that obstacle by putting them together.  He also makes a wise choice with these characters in two regards.  First, he shows us what each of them have been doing since the end of the Sinestro War, providing a little bridge between the end of the big story and this one.  Second, the scene is short, limited to one page.  Frankly, it would’ve been nice to see more, but given the large cast of characters, more of each would’ve derailed the momentum of the plot.  What Tomasi provided was enough for new readers to become familiar as well as long-time readers to remind us why we like (or don’t like as the case may or may not be) the characters before diving headlong into the story. 

My only concern in this issue is the portrayal of Sadam Yat.  For someone who has the Ion symbiote and is also powered by our yellow sun (and has a green power ring), he seems to get his ass handed to him fairly easily in this issue.  Granted, we don’t see it, but Yat fought against the Anti-monitor and Prime in the Sinestro Corps War.  Now, I am not saying Mongul couldn’t win, but Yat should be able to fight well enough to provide warning to the other Green Lanterns, or perhaps give Arisa a chance to either go for help or help herself.  Really, Yat should be more formidable than he is shown here.   

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