By: Geoff Johns (writer), Doug Mahnke (penciller), Christian Alamy, Doug Mahnke, Rebecca Buchman and Keith Champagne (inkers)
The Story: This is it! The endgame of Blackest Night. John Stewart leads an army of light against giant Black Lantern planet as it descends on the Earth. In the meantime, Hal Jordan is on Earth, fighting Nekron and the Black Hand with Sinestro. But something is up with Sinestro. He has become something new, the ultimate weapon against the Blackest Night!
What’s Good: Geoff Johns had me on the edge of my seat not only with the action, but with all of the explanations of the mysteries of the corps of light and the making of the final weapon, Sinestro. John Stewart has his hands full trying to stop a limitless swarm of black lanterns and a giant, dead planet. It ain’t a pretty place to be. And we see the origin of will, the origin of fear, the origin of love, and so on, and how they all feed into the corps’ final weapon.
And while we’re on the good stuff, I had to say that this was one of the best-looking issues of Green Lantern I’ve seen in a while. Mahnke, Alamy, Buchman and Champagne were in the zone. Take a look at the final splash page featuring Sinestro. The proportions are awesome, the dynamism of the pose Kirby-esque, the texture of the silvery costume evoking the *feel* of light. And the art team delivered some brilliant battle scenes, epic in scope and frightening in their violence. And the middle of Sinestro’s transformation, where light is pouring through his veins…brilliant (no pun intended). First class in every way.
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