Green Lantern #15 – Review

By: Geoff Johns (story), Doug Mahnke (art), Keith Champagne, Christian Alamy, Mark Irwin, Tom Nguyen (inks), Alex Sinclair (colors)

The Story: Baz discovers one of a Green Lantern’s greatest weaknesses the hard way.

The Review: Lately, every time I read a Johns-penned issue, I think that he really missed his vocation.  The guy should be a door-to-door salesman; I can think of few other writers who have offered me goods that my voice of reason tells me shouldn’t work, and yet who manage to get me helplessly sold on them anyway.  I can’t tell you how many times I’ve gone into a Johns comic doubting its premise, only to have my doubt eroded away until I’m caught in his sell.

Take this Rise of the Third Army thing.  Even though I know the concept has been done to death, even within Green Lantern, Johns does manage to convince me to let my hang-ups go and take the threat seriously.  As the spread of the Army accelerates, with whole planets overtaken at a time, you do start getting a little nervous about how far this can go before the sentient universe is altered beyond repair.  Even that little bit of nervousness is a victory for an old story like this.