Well, John Stewart is back in the spotlight in the main Green Lantern book, presumably to cash in on his regular appearance on the Justice League cartoon. Not begrudging DC over this decision. It’s a smart decision to capitalize on the success of a hit cartoon by featuring characters from said cartoon. It’s just that I liked Kyle Rayner; that was my GL. It’d be nice to see Kyle in better stories that aren’t just “his friends keep getting hurt or killed or whatever.”
In any event, we have John Stewart’s first solo story in a while and how does it fare? Well, about as well as you’d expect… a man who hasn’t been on the job in a while, questioning whether Kyle made the right choice in trusting John, another look into the darker side of humanity at the beginning of the book, and then after a couple bits, he starts to ease himself in. It’s the kind of story you’d expect the new guy to get for their first outing and the issue did a good job of bringing readers up to speed on what John’s been up to without going too deep into things. If nothing else, it’s nice to read an issue of GL that has some levity to it. Maybe John can bring that here.
Art continues to be solid. Writing’s still good. No complaints going forward. We’re off to a good start for this latest new (old?) era of Green Lantern
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