GREEN LANTERN CORPS #61

Beware My Power

August 2011

Written by Tony Bedard

Pencils by Daniel Hdr

Inks by Keith Champagne

Covers by Tyler Kirkham and Rags Morales

Synopsis

With the war of the green lanterns over, those that were recruited to help destroy the corps are asked to turn in their power rings.  However, Qurina Vint of Calados refuses to give it up.  She is the only person from her planet to be inducted into the corps and she wants to prove it wasn’t a mistake.  Qurina goes to talk to John Stewart about what she should do.  He advises her to report for basic training.  Just then, she receives a distress call in her sector.  She rushes off to help. John follows.  In Sector 282, Qurina encounters a territorial conflict.  Qurina rushes in and disarms the combatants.  That only angers them more as they re-arm.  Meanwhile, John finds a way to settle the dispute without bloodshed.  Afterwards, he tells her she needs to approach the job with humility.

Review by Binkley (e-mail)

This issue started off pretty good with the idea that the new “recruits” were being forced (or asked as John suggests they didn’t have to) to discard the rings Parallax-influenced Mogo had given to them.  And it ended on an interesting with Qurina’s assessment of John and how he feels after he killed Mogo in order to save thousands of lives.  In between, however, was a very standard story of a new recruit and how she fares in her first mission.  Both the character and the conflict are not all the interesting, nor is the story all that compelling.  There is this feeling of been there, done that. 

Actually, I was kinda hoping when the issue first started that Bedard would find a way to tell the story that somehow involves fear.  Remember, to be inducted, one must be able to overcome great fear.  Was that also true when Mogo sent out the rings, or was it just looking for warm bodies to increases the number of the army.  I think it would’ve been more interesting to show a recruit much like Qurina who could not overcome fear and realizes they were not meant to be in the corps.  It certainly would’ve provided a more interesting story, I think.  

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