By: Geoff Johns (story), Doug Mahnke (pencils), Christian Alamy, Mark Irwin, Tom Nguyen, Keith Champagne, Marc Deering (inks), Alex Sinclair & Tony Avina (colors)
The Story: Caring for someone so much and wanting to kill them—classic sibling love.
The Review: This issue pops up with almost every legacy character, but anytime someone new takes up the cape or mantle or mask, you’ll have waves of protest and rejection across the comic book readership—just scores of folks saying they’ll never accept this interloper and ridiculing him to fringe status forever. Inevitably, of course, all that goes away and the new guy/girl ends up a fact of comics life anyway.
Some of you may hate to hear this, but in my head I’ve already begun accepting Simon as Green Lantern. Certainly I don’t consider him as the Green Lantern (obviously it’s Hal, but in my heart I’ll always hope Kyle Rayner makes a comeback), but I know that when all this—whatever “this” is—is over, I won’t have any problem with him keeping the ring.
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