Green Lantern Corps #51 – Review

By: Tony Bedard (writer), Ardian Syaf (artist), Vicente Cifuentes (inker), Randy Mayor (colorist)

The Story: Revolt of the Alpha-Lanterns, Part Four: Cyborg-Superman-Psycho-Alpha-Lantern-Cult-Leader has Ganthet and “motivates” him to find out how to turn Alpha Lanterns back into real people. Our three intrepid Green Lanterns are still crawling through the remarkably clean sewers of the robot planet of Grenda. They call for some bad-ass help and try to rally the robots.

What’s Good: Bedard has a tight arc going on here. We started with a mystery of WTF is going on behind the screen of secrecy of Grenda? He revealed the Cyborg-Psycho after having put our heroes into great danger. They are not out of danger and the situation appears much worse, as the heroes are depowered, on foreign soil and on the run. What more could a reader want? Give me a hero in danger any day and I’ll show up. And the art team of Syaf, Cifuentes and Mayor delivers some fine matching visual work. Those creepy chest lanterns that the alphas are carrying around are unsettling, while the tech is shining and menacing and the heroes textured and emotive. In terms of faces, the Syaf/Cifuentes has a bit of a Jim Starlin stylistic flavor that is effective.