Hal Jordan and the Green Lantern Corps Vol. 5: Twilight of the Guardians by Rob Venditti

My rating: 3 of 5 stars


We get two stories in the book. the Two Issue Mind Games and the titular Twilight of the Guardians.

The first is Mind Games which features a team-up between Hal Jordan and Superman. This is a follow up on a recent story in Superman where the man of steel was possessed by Parallax and met up with Sinestro and at first, it appears to Hal that Parallax is back. This is a decent story that does a good job focusing on the relationship between Hal and Superman.

The second is, "Twilight of the Guardians" which features all the surviving members of the Guardians of the Universe being kidnapped by the Controllers who come from the same planet of Malthus. This story featured a child from Xundar who became a Green Lantern and a husband and wife guardian pair. These were nice touches. They also tried to highlight a team dynamic between all four of the Human lanterns, which I don't think worked very well. The story seems in love with continuity with the Controllers not being a compelling villain and the series moving towards a more traditional status quo at the end. Reaching that point seemed to be what mattered most as opposed to telling a good story.

This isn't a a bad book, but it's below the standard of what I've come to expect from this series.



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