Some time ago, I reviewed the GL issue preceding this one, which featured GL’s gay friend getting beaten to death by a bunch of guys. I figured that they would touch up a little more on the case in their next issue. However, the DC guys must have been thinking something along these lines: Now that the more publicized issue is out, let’s have our second part shift gears to Kyle questioning his will to protect a world in which the bad outweighs the good. While we’re add it, let’s switch Green Lanterns between the guy we’ve just redone a few issues and that guy who is currently on the JLA cartoon… I have to question this decision.
In any case, the story that is presented is good. GL is questioned by his JLA buddies because of his un-heroic beatings on his friend’s attackers in the previous issue. It pretty much shows what is going through his mind; his friend is on the verge of death and he wants to change time to prevent it from happening. If a dear friend is dying, that’s what most of us would hope to do, but can’t.
If there is anything that bothers me, it is the need to switch from Kyle Rayner to John Stewart as the main hero of the Green Lantern comic. Why is it that just because John Stewart is on the JLA cartoon, it means we have to see him here? It’s probably the same thing behind the return of Aquaman, even though he’s not a regular on that cartoon. Also, we’ve just had GL Kyle redone with a new costume and a new haircut just a couple of issues ago. What was the point if you’re only switch GLs several issues later?
GL 155 is a moody comic with somewhat of a cop-out ending, but it’s a pretty well-done piece.
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