By: James Robinson (story), Nicola Scott (pencils), Trevor Scott (inks), Alex Sinclair (colors)
The Story: Hiring a perpetrator of genocide as crisis consultant? Desperate times…
The Review: The more I read this title, the more I admire Robinson’s approach to making Earth Two a true parallel world. This Earth clearly has elements inspired by the one bearing most of the current DC features, but they don’t have any direct counterparts to each other. In some cases, Robinson amalgamates concepts together (Alan Scott as both Green Lantern and a Superman-type figure); in others, Robinson puts in so much of his own ideas, they’re only barely familiar.
The Grey and the Green obviously fall in the amalgam category, being fusions of Green Lantern and Animal Man/Swamp Thing mythology. Coincidentally (or not), the Grey is making a play for the whole planet just as the Rot is doing in “Rotworld.” The big difference is the Grey isn’t letting the grass grow under its feet—so to speak—in the process; Earth Two faces its demise at the hands of Grundy in less than a day.
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