Green Lantern #28 Review

GREEN LANTERN #28
Written by Geoff Johns
Art by Mike McKone and Andy Lanning

Apparently murder isn't that big a deal on Oa. Laira is found guilty of murder, which she did in fact do, and her punishment is being relieved of duty and sent home to her old life. No prison time, no community service and no death sentence or any other kind of accountability. You can murder people and get away with it if you're a GL. Good to no. Sinestro's the bad guy, right?

Despite my misgivings over the retarded justice system on Oa, a lot of groundwork was laid this issue. We are introduced to the first known Red Lantern. If you can't guess who becomes it (hint: she's not a Green Lantern anymore and is filled with rage over being kicked out and wants to kill more Sinestro Coprs members), it's not much of a surpise anyways. I don't know if I agree with it, as it seems to come out of nowhere. We also see someone complaining about the greatest GL ever and names him as Sinestro, making him an old 'friend' of his from long ago. His sequence ended with a blood covered red lantern. He's rather alien looking, but could be the new corps' creator.

On top of that, the Controllers (the guys that made the Darkstars) are off trying to create an orange corps. The don't look like the preview for that corps from the end of GL #25 and I thought it would be a sort of one-man army corps unwilling to share, but it's still early, who knows what happens.

Finally, the Guardians enacted the "second law". First one was lethal force on the Sinestro Corps. Second one is? Lethal force on everyone. What's the point of the first law if you knew the second law would be full lethal force? Retarded is what this build up was. Third law is lethal force on yourself in case you get tired of redundancy.

Verdict - Check It. Still nothing I'd write home about. Well, technically I am writing about it, but the point stands. There's some neat things here, but nothing really holding it all together or forming a cohesive plot or story.

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