Sinestro #3 – Review

By: Cullen Bunn (story), Dale Eaglesham & Rags Morales (art), Jason Wright (colors)

The Story: As with most former dictators, it’s hard to wring an apology out of Sinestro.

The Review: So I saw Transformers: Age of Extinction last night, the first Transformers film I’ve ever seen beyond the trailer. This isn’t really the time and place for a fully-fledged review of the movie, but for those curious, I’ll say that it’s extremely distressing to see how much money could be spent to produce something so soulless and utterly lacking in redeeming quality other than visual spectacle. Clearly very little of that $210 million budget was expended on the writing.

More than anything else, I’m angry at myself for actually paying money to see the film and thus indirectly supporting such wanton lack of integrity. That’s the upside of reading comics; even if you feel like you’ve wasted your money on some bad issues, you can take comfort in knowing the profits aren’t terribly encouraging anyway. And with that, I think I’ve successfully brought us back to our real topic of choice, Sinestro #3, which might not be exceptional, but at least it has characters with dimension, which can’t be said of certain works with a gajillion times the resources.

Green Lantern New Guardians: Annual #1 – Review

By: Keith Giffen (Writer), Scott Kolins, Andrei Bressan (Artists), David Curiel (Colorist)

The Story: Arkillo, Carol and Saint Walker get into the Tenebrian Dominion thanks to the help of Jediah Caul, a green lantern. In there, they find the harsh reality of this space sector on the planet called Tolerance.

The Review: Annual issues are not exactly the easiest kind of issues to review. The reason why they usually are is because of one thing: their purpose. An annual can be written for many reasons: it can be a celebration of everything the series stand for in a standalone tale that is usually inconsequential to the actual storyline, or it can be setup for something much larger in the work for the series.

Unfortunately, this annual is neither of those options, as it tries to be two things at once and fails at both. It tries to be about the New Guardians, yet it also tries to set up some important characters and information about the new ongoing from Keith Giffen, Threshold. Why it fails is very simple: the focus is never really well divided, providing us with neither enough information about the cast of Threshold, like Jediah Caul, but it also gives us only half of the New Guardians cast in a story that has not much purpose in their actual storyline. I doubt very much that Lady Styx will pop up in New Guardians anytime soon.