Green Lantern, Vol. 3: Power of Will

Green Lantern (2023)

by Jeremy Adams, Fernando Pasarín (Artist), Peter J. Tomasi

The seeds of war have been sown across the galaxy and now it’s up to Green Lanterns Hal Jordon, John Stewart, and Guy Gardner to stop it! But how far will they have to go, and what, exactly, is the secret of the Dark Star resurrection?

The Green Lanterns must deal with the fallout of Absolute Power and Green Lantern: War Journal in ways that will change the DC Universe’s cosmos forever! The Dark Star ring represents a dangerous and mysterious threat that only Hal, John, and Guy can get to the bottom of! But how far will they go, and where will this path take them? A brand new era of Green Lantern stories start here!

Genres: Comics, Dc Comics, Graphic Novels, Superheroes, Comic Book, Science Fiction, Fantasy

232 pages, Paperback

First published May 20, 2025

Reviews

[Khurram · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book contains a tie-in to Absolute Power in the current Green Lantern series, and then the second half of it is all reprints of the old series. I hope this has some bearing on the future or it is just a waste.

Hal Jordan has been captured and needs to fight his way back to the other heroes. However, in space, the Premier of the United Planets continues to consolidate his power. This is causing fractures in the emotional spectrum.

For the Absolute Power Tie-ins I would give this book 4.5 stars, the rest seems to be filler. I would rather have a shorter book than unnecessary stories. I do hope there was some point to the reprints in the future.

[Paul · Rating 3 out of 5]

3.5 stars

I wasn’t expecting much from this, it being composed entirely of crossover tie-in stuff, but was surprised to find myself quite enjoying it. The art was of a consistently high standard, too, which always helps.

[Bill Riggs · Rating 3 out of 5]

Very enjoyable. Not exceedingly great but still the storyline continues to be fun and entertaining.

[James DeSantis · Rating 1 out of 5]

Green Lantern Vol. 3 by Jeremy Adams is, to put it bluntly, a major letdown. It primarily serves as a tie-in to the Absolute Power event, and it fucking sucks. There's no other way to say it; this shit sucks ass. Instead of focusing on compelling narrative, the volume mostly features Hal Jordan aimlessly running around a space station he was a prisoner of. The entire premise feels incredibly boring, wacky, and, frankly, quite dumb.

The core issue is that this volume barely resembles a Green Lantern story. It leans heavily into a "beep-bop-boop", slapstick cartoon vibe, which is a disservice to the character and his lore. The three issues directly tying into the Absolute Power event are particularly weak, offering little substance or enjoyment.

To make matters worse, the volume includes a bafflingly long issue that inexplicably ties into Zero Hour, a completely different and much older event. What the fuck?

This feels like an utterly wasteful diversion that adds nothing to the overall experience. This volume is entirely skippable, and I'd strongly recommend readers to stick with the first two volumes, which are significantly stronger and more engaging.

[Anna Quilter · Rating 3 out of 5]

just a mix...
Absolute Power tie in story.
Back up story from early issues and
Zero Hour 30th anniversary story

[Dakota Morgan · Rating 3 out of 5]

Power of Will is a hefty volume that mostly fails to live up to the promise of its predecessor, though that's only partly because it's forced into a series of Absolute Power tie-ins. Honestly, most of those are pretty good and feature Hal getting to be all superhero-y in fun, character-focused ways. I even appreciated the issues starring the original Green Lantern (Alan Scott), showing how the Justice Society of America (plus Carol!) dealt with the Absolute Power event. Jadestone, the friendly Amazo, was unexpectedly a highlight. Carol's fiancee turning into a...Sorrow Lantern(?) was not a highlight, on the other hand.

Where Power of Will slips is when Hal Jordan leaves the book and we get... I'm not sure what, really. Back-up issues? One-shots that couldn't be collected elsewhere? First up, a series of shorts about Sinestro's abandoned son trying to live up to his father's legacy. These are fine, the art is fun, whatever. Then a long, alternate-universe special issue with Kyle Raynor and Parallax. If this feels like they rebooted an old storyline purely so the original artists could come back and draw again... that's because it's exactly that. It's deadly dull and silly in comparison to the Jeremy Adams stuff in the beginning of the volume.

Here's hoping we're back to Hal in the next volume!

[Robert · Rating 2 out of 5]

It was OK.

The additional materials to pad out the volume really didn’t add much, unless you’re one of Earth’s 3 or 4 Kyle Rayner fans.

[Adam Fisher · Rating 4 out of 5]

Again, we find a Volume that is heavily tied in with Absolute Power.
Highlights:
- Hal proves once again that he is amazing, escaping prison, reclaiming his ring, and finding love with Carol
- One of the Amazo bots absorbs Alan Scott's GL powers and begins to feel free will. Alan starts calling him Jadestone, and ultimately he rebels against Waller and helps Hal.
- Carol's ex fiance taps into something new and becomes like a Lantern, going by the name of Sorrow. Carol is able to overcome him with her power of love.
- We get the prequel to Sinister Sons, with Sinestro's son. Looks like it will definitely be a colorful book. Hope the stories are good too.
- We get to see a new Batman gadget: The Batwolf! A 4 winged Batwing, almost like a X-Wing, but has lots of unique nonlethal armaments.
- We see the rise of power for Lord Premier Thaaros. (Really hope to see the GLC take him out after the Absolute Power line is done.)

Overall a good read, but felt a little like setup for what is to come after.
Recommend.

[Ilan Preskovsky · Rating 3 out of 5]

The description of this trade is completely wrong. I assume it refers to volume 4. This current volume is, pretty much, all filler. Almost all of it is pretty fun filler, but it's filler nonetheless.

The first chunk of the trade is a tie-in to the Absolute Power event that, like most tie-ins, feels mostly extraneous to the ongoing story going on in Green Lantern, but it's still more enjoyable than this sort of thing often is. The only really notable thing here is the aftermath of Carol deciding to become Star Sapphire again and choosing Hal over her fiancee, who becomes yet another member of the overused emotional spectrum corps, but there's some fun stuff with the JSA, an Amazo finding free will and Hal trying to escape Waller's clutches without the use of his wrong. Great art too from Marco Santucci and Fernando Pasarin.

The middle part is a collection of backup stories from numerous issues of the series and though none are as memorable as the two from the previous volume that saw Ron Marz and Dale Eaglesham return to Kyle Rayner and Kevin Maguire return to Guy Gardner and Lobo, they're mostly decent. Though the prologue to the John Stewart GL book, War Journal, meant nothing to me as I haven't read that series, and there's also a lot of setting up another separate book called Sinister Sons that looks... fine.

My favourite part of the whole thing, though, was the surprise inclusion of the Zero Hour: 30th Anniversary special. I have a soft spot for that particular event as it was the first cosmic crossover I read after starting to read comics religiously a couple of years before, so much of my enjoyment for this was pure nostalgia, but I thought Marz and Jurgens came up with a novel way to celebrate this particular milestone and it includes some of my favourite artists from that era to boot. It kind of gets a thumbs up from me just for featuring Starman Jack Knight!

Which is all to say that if you're mostly just interested in the main story being told in Green Lantern you can safely skip this volume and you'll miss virtually nothing. If you do happen to pick it up, though, without knowing what it actually contains (as I did) or you're a completist, you'll still get a bunch of perfectly decent stories to tide you over until volume 4.

[Ya Boi Be Reading · Rating 2 out of 5]

2.5 rounded down. This isn’t a terrible trade but it isn't a trade of Jeremy Adams’ Green Lantern. It’s practically part of an omnibus for all things recently GL. The first two thirds are fairly light on Jeremy Adams’ Green Lantern but also the most we get of it in this entire book. The first 100 pages or so are tie-ins to Absolute Power though they do a great job of advancing the main GL storyline with the Sorrow Lantern (whose juicy drama as Carol Ferris' newly scorned lover was a nice touch). Then it's onto everything else for the entire two thirds with other stories such as the epilogue to John Stewart's recent two trade run which I'm curious as to why it's here considering he doesn't do much in this trade and is also just in the John Stewart final trade. Then it's some of the collected mini sidestories the main comics have been collecting which also feels like a tie in considering it's about Sinestro’s son who during Dawn of DC had a miniseries about him which is when Jeremy Adams’ started his GL run. But it’s woefully old from the single-digit issues when the Jeremy Adams’ issues are in the mid-teens here meaning in the future we might get more stuff like this. Finally it ends on a Zero Hour 30 year anniversary which is neat but again not Jeremy Adams. It’s just a bit weird to market it as the Jeremy Adams’ Green Lantern trade when two-thirds isn’t that and what are Absolute Power tie-ins meaning part of it isn’t really related to the actual storyline Jeremy Adams wants to tell.

[Eskana · Rating 2 out of 5]

I wish I could say this was continuing from the previous volume, but sadly, the action was interrupted and diverted into numerous Event titles as the "Absolute Power" DC event began. This volume doesn't do the storyline any favors; hopping here and there with every volume, and including continuations and conclusions of back-up stories from previous issues that hadn't been included before. All this makes for a very jumbled read... which isn't necessarily the fault of the author(s), but whoever assembled this book.... bless their heart?

It's hard to summarize the plot, so I will have to leave that to the issue-by-issue synopsis. As far as art goes, it changes frequently from issue to issue, and story to story, so I would just give it a middling grade.

If you absolutely, positively needed to find out what happened to GL Hal Jordan and Carol Ferris/Star Sapphire after the end of the last issue, have at it. Otherwise, it's a very confusing read.

*The "Absolute Power" event features Amanda Waller using Amazo robots to steal superpowers from all metahumans, and steal the special equipment from others. She has imprisoned any depowered metahuman she can capture and hunts down the rest. Thanks to AI, she has convinced the public that this is a good thing.

Issue-by-Issue Synopsis:
Issue #13: Cutting straight to the action, Hal Jordan has been captured by Amanda Waller and is beaten by King Shark in an attempt to force him to give her his ring. Hal eventually escapes and stumbles into the warehouse where Waller has storied all the supervillain and superhero equipment.
Meanwhile, on Oa, Jessica Cruz lets the other rebel GLs know that Hal got away, and as they plan to move, Kyle Rayner reveals that something is wrong with the Emotional Spectrum.
Meanwhile, on "New Korugar," where Sinestro, still a Red Lantern, decides to seek vengeance on whomever made him forget his fear powers and use anger.
Meanwhile, in Battery Park, NY, the JSA members fight the Amazo robots and Waller's troops. The Amazo has absorbed the power of Alan Scott's ring, and when it absorbs Jesse Quick's speed, it beats everyone. Only a few escape through magic.
Meanwhile, Carol's fiancé (ex?) feels sad that she disappeared. He is overcome with sadness, and becomes the first Sorrow Lantern.
Finally... not meanwhile, but in the past. We learn the backstory of Lord Premier Thaaros, the shapeshifting alien who controls the United Planets and the GL Corps.
Feeling whiplash? Yeah, this issue was crazy and kept jumping to a new location.

Issue #14: Hal fights the troops with crazy villain weapons. Meanwhile, an imprisoned Alan Scott plays chess with the Amazo who absorbed his ring's power. He calls the robot Jadestone and believes it now has free will. Jadestone goes to defend against Hal. Hal is able to use a magic wand to escape, and winds up with Batman, Superman, and Wonder Woman.
Meanwhile... in the Tower of Fate, Carol is hanging out with some magic folks and escaped JSA members. She is recruited to go out in public and try to find other heroes since she is an unknown. Unbeknownst to her, Nathan senses her and tries to find her.
In a backup story, one of the new United Planets GLs shares that he suspects that Thaaros altered the GL rings to choose people easily manipulated, instead of those with strong will. Thaaros then sent good GLs on dangerous missions, where they would probably die and their ring would find a new bearer. The GL dies on a mission, hoping he is far enough away that his ring will find a worthy bearer.
Issue #15: Apparently something happened in "Absolute Power #3," because Hal is now on a mission with Wally West. They go to an island owned by Bruce Wayne and take a jet (without Batman's permission.) Hal is hoping to reach the power battery he found in an earlier issue. Once he gets there, he is found by Jadestone, who decides to let him go and chooses to stay and guard the battery.
Meanwhile, Carol encounters Dove (of Hawk and Dove,) who is overcome suddenly with sadness... and they run into Nathan. Carol is able to overcome his sadness/depression power with love, but realizes she needs to help Nathan and find Hal. She finds him at the battery.
In a backup story, GL John Stewart works with John Henry Irons and his niece to test a new elevated train. John is apparently getting over his mother's death, but says his mother's soul is now in his ring. He is also accompanied by a projection of what is apparently his young sister, who died a long time before.
Absolute Power: Task Force VII #3: Flashback to a fight between the JSA and the Amazos... only this says "now." This must have come out concurrently or near the time of GL #13. It quickly becomes clear that the cliffhanger in Issue 12 must've resulted in this fight. The Amazo (who will become Jadestone) freezes when it absorbs Alan's ring, and the JSA escape with an unconscious Carol to the Tower of Fate. Jadestone begins to develop self-awareness and questions Waller's orders as it tries to track down the JSA. It crashes the Oblivion Bar and finds a way to the Tower of Fate, where, to prevent it attacking, Alan Scott surrenders himself.
Meanwhile, Steve Trevor has snuck onto Waller's island and disguised himself as a guard.

Combination of back-up stories from Issues 4 and 7: A young Korugarian (?) boy named Korg works for a thieves' crew but dreams of something more. He believes himself to be the son of Sinestro and idolizes him. He is able to beat the leader of the crew, and takes on the name Sinson. This story is continued in "Sinister Sons #1."

Zero Hour 30th Anniversary Special #1: A really long issue that focuses on Kyle Rayner, immediately after the "Zero Hour" event, which took place in the 90s, following the "takeover of Hal Jordan by the entity Parallax" (long story.) Anyway, Kyle is one of my least favorite GLs and so I only skimmed this story, but it involved Kyle traveling to some other time or dimension, encountering many different heroes (including Wally West, Batgirl, Donna Troy, and Obsidian), none of whom recognize him. Eventually he realizes the dimension is created by Parallax, and then everything gets blurred in a very Millenium-style story. Read if you care about this stuff, I suppose!

[Malum · Rating 2 out of 5]

This is is an event tie-in, which is almost never a good thing. You just get issues of random, confusing bits of a story. Also, you need to read so much to be caught up on everything that is happening, even once we get out of the tie-in nonsense.

[M · Rating 3 out of 5]

Jeremy Adams and a cadre of creators are united to forge the third volume of the latest Green Lantern saga, Power of Will. Due to a multitude of events occurring across various books, this collection contains snippets of larger story arcs affecting the DC Universe at large. The main title follows Hal Jordan's escape from Amanda Waller, reuniting with Earth's heroes to fight back against her plan to eliminate all superhuman threats. His quick thinking - and a cache of supervillain weapons - presents Jordan as a adaptive fighter, willing to press onward even without his universal weapon. The Absolute Power issue details the Amazo robot sent after the Justice Society, and its subsequent alteration after absorbing the mystical Starheart energy wielded by Alan Scott. Imbued with a level of free will, the newly empowered android begins to question authority; it adopts the name Jadestone and works with Alan to help the heroes evade arrest. Backup features from the various titles showcase John Stewart working for Steelworks in Metropolis, and a young Korugar refugee dubbed Sinson trying to emulate the fear-inducing power of Sinestro in order to uncover his true parentage. The book concludes with a Zero Hour throwback, sending Kyle Rayner to a world that should not exist. After encountering Batgirl, Supergirl, Donna Troy, and other 1990s-era heroes, Kyle must convince them to revolt against Parallax in time to prevent total annihilation. The sheer number of writers and artists makes this quite the quagmire, with jolting stylistic changes frequenting the pages. The primary storyline gets very little new material, while the ancillary features - presented as whole units for the first time in print - are able to demonstrate a more complete plot structure. Green Lantern: Power of Will offers snapshots of the bigger picture, but does not quite come together as a whole.

[Subham · Rating 2 out of 5]

This was such a wild graphic novel while the main story with Hal during the Absolute power event was so cool like he is powerless and captured and how he escapes is the story using other heroes gadgets to fight back and then teaming up with the other heroes to save the day and I really like that. Him flying the bat plane was the highlight and its one of those things that should have been done long before so really enjoyed that. There is one story with Alan and Jadestone (Amazo) that hints at how the latter gets the will/sentience so that was fun and really well done! There were moments with Carol that I really liked too.

Then there is the story of Sinson and how he is trying to escape this planet which I was not a fan of but its like 30ish pages and then the big story of Kyle in a world with the zero hour versions of the characters but how the events played out differently here and its a fine self contained story but cosmic timey-whimey explanation is confusing but still some good moments but wasn't a fan of it and honestly there was no need to include it here.

But oh well the absolute power tie in was cool and had some cool moments for Hal but the other issues just bogged it down. The art was fine nothing special and yeah I am a bit down on this volume because of the unnecessary filler material thats here.

[Mateo V. · Rating 2 out of 5]

Wow, what an unfortunate collection. I get the fact that the Absolute Power event was going on, but to have the majority of this be only tie-ins -- in addition to other back-up stories that I couldn't care less about (minus War Journal, I've been meaning to read that) -- was just frustrating and a waste of time. Granted, I did think it was interesting seeing how the different heroes react to not having their powers anymore and finding out ways to stop Waller; to the point where I will be checking out the main story about the main event soon. But as a volume in the Green Lantern series, I was tremendously let down. The art was lackluster and, as I mentioned earlier, most of the back-up stories were so uninteresting that I could not be bothered to read them. Am I missing out? I truly doubt it. I did like the one that explored Thaaros and the story titled, "The Shadow Lantern", but that is it. One thing, story-wise, that I really do not like is the way Carol treated Nathan. It is to the point that I just do not like her character in this. However, this is the first time I've Carol in a series so my opinion might be skewed. Overall, poorly collected and was such a slog to read. Hopefully, the next volume makes up for it. (Bat-X-Wing FTW!)

[Shannon Appelcline · Rating 3 out of 5]

The core of this volume, the Absolute Power tie-in, is quite good. It manages to be a superset of the crossover by showing how it's being manipulated by cosmic powers, and how Amanda's little power grab is unimportant in the scope of things. Plus, we get great interactions between Carol and Hal while Hal totally Jason Bournes it all.

But the problem is that this volume is just filled with junk.

There's another Absolute Power issue that's actually pretty closely linked to the plot, but out-of-place in this volume, so you read it after you already know everything about it. (Thanks DC Collection dept.)

Then three stories worth of Sinestro's son which are repetitve with bad art (but Sinestro's son is a fair character).

And then an unending Zero Hour story that makes little sense and is very, very boring. (I was skimming by the end.)

If that Absolute Power issue had been in the right place, and it was just that and the core Green Lantern plot, this would have been decent. Instead, you froget about the good stuff by the time you get to the sad, sad end of this volume.

[Josh · Rating 1 out of 5]

Well, that was a pointless volume. Despite my previous praising of how Adams has attempted to tie this run into other events, this volume is your standard collection of disjointed tie-in issue, this time to the dreadful Absolute Power. To make matters worse, the Absolute Power related issues are not even collected in the proper order. I am firmly ready for this series to start dealing with its own stuff instead of tying in to other things. Like, why even debut the Sorrow Lantern here if he's just going to disappear in the next issue with Carol not even mentioning him? Because Absolute Power. Right. Cool.

Then we have the prelude to Tomasi's Sinister Sons series, which I don't understand at all why it is collected here instead of the Sinister Sons trade that never was.

The last is a who-gives-a-fuck Zero Hour anniversary special that has no purpose to be collected here either. This is New 52 levels of bad trade collecting.

[Chris Lemmerman · Rating 3 out of 5]

This volume of Green Lantern is thin on the ground, mostly by virtue of being a collection of Absolute Power tie-ins.

The main three issues of the series are decent, but I've always found Green Lantern to be his least interesting when he's just doing Earth stuff. Hal's ringless, so he has to fight with some other stuff instead, which is always a fun time, but these issues don't really have the same flair as those around them.

Also included is the Green Lantern issue of Task Force VII (which goes to show which of these tie-in issues was important, since it's the only one collected outside of its own trade), which introduces new character Jadestone as he runs afoul of Alan Scott and makes some decisions for his little robot self.

Not bad by any stretch, but definitely a bump in the road between bigger stories.

[Ángel Javier · Rating 3 out of 5]

Un popurrí raro: después de unos cuantos cruces con «Absolute Power» (que no están mal, la verdad, por mucho que este tipo de cosas me repateen), tenemos una historia del supuesto hijito de Sinestro que me importa un pepino, y un especial de lo más bizarro conmemorando aquella mierdaca que fue Hora Cero, y cuyo único interés (siempre en mi opinión, claro está) consiste en ver al mítico Jerry Ordway marcarse algunas paginillas. Lo demás, caca.

En fin, como digo, un tomo perfectamente prescindible, si no fuera por los complementos cortitos, protagonizados por miembros de los Corps o villanos, que al menos hacen avanzar algo la trama principal de la serie, así como la aparición de ese villano emo pesadísimo que le da la brasa a Carol Ferris y que tendrá bastante importancia más adelante. Pero, vamos, que si este libro jamás hubiera existido, tampoco se habría perdido mucho...

[Chad · Rating 3 out of 5]

This is a catch-all of Green Lantern related stuff. It's the Green Lantern related Absolute Power issues along with Task Force VII #3 as Alan Scott and Carol are in that one. Then it's the Sinson backup stories from even earlier issues of GL. I don't know why those aren't in the Sinister Sons trade instead. Finally, is a 30th anniversary story for Zero Hour with Kyle in a pocket dimension and it feels like nothing but filler.

[Alex Baguley · Rating 3 out of 5]

Full of irrelevant tie ins that do nothing to follow the plot it’s also dragged down by the fact it’s tied into absolute power. Hopefully volume 4 picks up the actual story more as it is interesting when it’s not bogged down by everything else.

[Will Cooper · Rating 3 out of 5]

Green Lantern.

[Aaron · Rating 3 out of 5]

Overstuffed!

[Henni · Rating 4 out of 5]

7.5 / 10

[Mayssa]

probably my fault for re-reading geoff johns' run at the same time but this is just aggressively mid

[Edan · Rating 3 out of 5]

2.5

[Anthony · Rating 3 out of 5]

This was really good, and then they jammed Wayward Son in the middle with childish art and a nonsense story. Remove that and it's a 4.5 star book

[Ronald Esporlas · Rating 2 out of 5]

I don't like this volume because it has been plagued by crossovers and events. I wish it went back to its regular programming.

[Ross · Rating 3 out of 5]

Essentially, Absolute Power tie-ins with a smattering of new plot points...

-Sinestro is now a Red Lantern
-Sorrow Lantern is a thing (awwwww...so sad)
-Lord Thaaros is a little bit cray
-Jadestone now has a ...Star(heart)

...and oh, look Zero Hour had an anniversary?