Green Lantern: Sleepers

Green Lantern: Sleepers #3

by Christopher J. Priest

The final volume in an epic trilogy, Sleepers, Book 3 features Hal Jordan, the most famous of Earth's modern-day Green Lanterns. Hal has been stripped of his powers, but it is up to him to fight the clones of the villain Sinestro, set loose by actions in the trilogy's first volume. In order to save the Earth, he may have to sacrifice himself by taking the Sinestro power rings on a one-way trip to the anti-matter universe.

Genres: Comics, Audiobook, Superheroes, Fiction, Science Fiction, Dc Comics, Adventure

1 pages, Audio CD

First published September 9, 2005

About the author

Formerly (before 1993) known as James or Jim Owsley.

Christopher James Priest is a critically acclaimed novelist and comic book writer. Priest is the first African-American writer and editor for Marvel and DC Comics. His groundbreaking Black Panther series was lauded by Entertainment Weekly and The Village Voice and will serve as the basis for the 2018 Marvel Cinematic Universe adaption.

Besides Black Panther, Priest has written comics for Conan, Steel, Green Lantern, The Crew and edited The Amazing Spider-Man. He also co-created Quantum & Woody along with Mark Bright and co-founded Milestone Media.

After a decade long hiatus he is currently writing comic books again and recently concluded a stint writing the comic book Deathstroke (2016-2019).

In addition to being a writer, Christopher J. Priest is also a baptist minister.

Reviews

[elef · Rating 5 out of 5]

why didn't we get that as a comic? it was so good

[Steve Joyce · Rating 3 out of 5]

Christopher J. Priest is a decent enough prose writer and can turn a phrase.

However, like all superhero books that I've read of late, I ended up giving it a "Gentleman's C" (i.e. 3 stars)

I suppose that the problem is that I read these novelizations of my favorite comic characters to put me back to who I was between, say, ages 6 and 16.

Trouble is ~ I'm not that person anymore. So, I get a kick out of reading about Hal Jordan and all of his gang (or Tony Stark and all of his ... or ... ) for mainly nostalgia reasons. But that only goes so far. Possibly a tad unfair but that's the way it is.

Misc: This Green Lantern book has been on my "Currently Reading" list for quite a while. I thought for a while that it might stay there forever since I couldn't locate it. Turned up on a window sill behind a curtain. The Spectre probably knew it was there but didn't tell me. I think he was duty-bound not to.

[emma 🤦😓 · Rating 4 out of 5]

I was tempted to give this 5 stars based off of the charismatic characterization alone tbh

Personally I didn’t like that Sinestro was turned into a sleeper virus because it kinda made the previous two books’ climax / BBEG fight kinda… one dimensional? This book kinda dragged on for me, but then this book’s climax was fucking buck WILD, there were like 20 fights all in a row.

I think I would’ve given this book 5 stars if it had a more…satisfying ending? But Hal just goes back to being the Spectre and presumably terrorizing and brutalizing teenage moms down on their luck again which like…really ?? I don’t think it was supposed to be a fairytale happy ending but is that really supposed to be his role in the universe? Ik the whole point is that he needed to stop thinking like a hero or else he’ll get a god complex again but Idk. I just kinda closed the book and went wtf?

[Kyle Dinges · Rating 1 out of 5]

Nope nope nope. The same terrible characterizations and problematic themes that plagued the first book in the series return even stronger in this final installment. The second book was just a generic Green Lantern story, and thus, was tolerable, but I can't with the handling of Carol's character and women in general. And once again, the story itself is probably a C- and that's just nowhere good enough to overcome the glaring flaws.

If you're interested in this series at all, I'd say go for the second one, as these aren't all that connected and it's fine, but skip the first and third. I found them both to be pretty horrible and I'm not sure why I made it through this entire series without giving up.

[Chris Hamilton · Rating 4 out of 5]

This was a very strange trilogy for me personally. I haven't read much of Green Lantern, although I've heard there are many good stories out there. I mostly only knew of Hal Jordan, with a little knowledge of Alan & Kyle. The production was top notch as always from GA and I liked that each one of the novels featured each one of those Green Lanterns. The story was a bit confusing with the anti-matter people creating a Sinestro virus in the rings that take over each person and they literally start transforming into Sinestro. Overall, it was entertaining but a bit hard to follow at times.

[Ian Miller · Rating 4 out of 5]

The Hal book, by Priest, which is why I bought the package of Graphic Audio books. Really good, though sadly a bit of a filler arc in that all of the changes are pretty much reset. And it was fun to see the seeds of Deathstroke in Carol Ferris's backstory. The excerpts of the novel on his website show that editorial generally massaged the book to be a bit less cynical and despairing.

[aiyonna · Rating 2 out of 5]

the misogyny is rampant in this one.

there’s a lot of interesting insights and characterizations - hal wasn’t drunk driving when he crashed in his origin?? - but it’s hard to look past hal
saying things like carol is evil deep down or calling her a bitch. i thought they were friends ??

[Derek Jordan · Rating 5 out of 5]

This really opened me up to Hal Jordan as the Question and some really cool elements in storytelling for this conclusion. I enjoyed it.

[Suraj · Rating 4 out of 5]

An apt conclusion for a good GL Series.

[Steven Shinder · Rating 4 out of 5]

To me, this was the strongest in the trilogy. I liked the dimensional problems that Hal Jordan encountered.

[Steven · Rating 2 out of 5]

Wow...this was endless.

[Dale · Rating 1 out of 5]

As a lifelong, massive Green Lantern fan and a self-directed student of any and all things comicbooky, from live-action movies to cartoons to spin-off novels, I had such high hopes for a trilogy of books about the characters from Green Lantern comics, written by someone who has direct experience writing some of those comics, no less! But the ambition outstripped the execution, unfortunately. The three matching hardcover books will look nice on my Green Lantern-themed bookshelf, but I'll have to dust them now and then, since I can't see myself ever re-reading them or pressing them into anyone else's unsuspecting hands. Ah, well.

I did a more in-depth breakdown of what didn't work for me about the book over on my blog, if you're morbidly curious: Parenthetical Asides. Or even if you're not morbidly curious about prose renderings of 50's sci-fi superheroes, feel free to swing by for my thoughts on a variety of other geeky topics!

[Christie · Rating 3 out of 5]

Out of the three books in the trilogy, I'd have to say the 3rd installment was by far my favorite. Although the story started out dragging and lots of pieces felt like an element was missing, I did enjoy how we got to see each Green Lantern and how they handled life as super heroes. I have always loved Star Sapphire so it was really great to see her come back out in this story. It was a small disappointment how she lost her power so easily though. All in all, the story was enjoyable.

[Victor Rodriguez · Rating 3 out of 5]

Un buen final para la trilogía de los durmientes de GL. Aquí el protagonista es Hal Jordan, en su época en la que ejercía de Espectro. Está muy bien ver a Hal recuperar su humanidad durante un breve espacio de tiempo para luchar contra los durmientes de Qward. Guy Gardner, Kyle Rayner y el resto de la JLA tambien aparecen de invitados, así como Carol Ferris y su alter ego Zafiro Estelar. Pese al sempiterno flashback de origen con Abin Sur, es un capítulo final digno y entretenido.

[Alan · Rating 3 out of 5]

Very good Graphic Audio version of an original story. Longer review here: http://eyesandearsblog.blogspot.com/2...