By: Geoff Johns (story), Dan Jurgens (layouts), Phil Jimenez (finishes), Doug Mahnke (art), Tom Nguyen, Keith Champagne, Mark Irwin, Christian Alamy (inks), Alex Sinclair & Tony Avina (colors)
The Story: Like any good mentor, Volthoom points out every mistake Ganthet has ever made.
The Review: So, after nearly ten years of dedicated work, the reign of Geoff Johns on Green Lantern ends at last. Can you believe that he’s been working on the series for so long that you’ve forgotten what it was like for it not to be written by Johns? I don’t know that we can accurately call this the end of an era—he is after all still going strong on Aquaman, Justice League, JLA, and Vibe—but it has all the bittersweetness of a finale.
The timing couldn’t be better, either. Green Lantern remains near the top of the heap in DC’s offerings, and it’s always great to go out on a high note. Besides, while I’m sure Johns still has more ideas left in his brain, I think we can safely say that he peaked somewhere during Blackest Night and has been stretching further and further for new arcs since. If you think about it, the emotional spectrum has been the basis of Green Lantern’s stories for a long time, and I think we’ve started scraping the bottom of the barrel where that concept is concerned.
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