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Green Lantern (2005) (Collected Editions)
Green Lantern, Volume 4: The Sinestro Corps War, Volume 1
The landmark story arc that shook the Green Lantern Corps to its foundations is collected in this hardcover volume!
Sinestro's army of fear has gathered: Arkillo! Karu-Sil! The Cyborg-Superman! And hundreds more of the most terrifying villains the universe has ever seen! Hal Jordan has overcome great fear throughout his life, but what fear still lingers inside him? Parallax knows, and Hal's about to be reminded as he leads Earth's Green Lanterns on a life-or-death rescue mission in the middle of this war. Meanwhile, the Guardians of the Universe find dissent within their ranks as a bizarre prophecy is fulfilled.
Collecting: Green Lantern 21-22, Sinestro Corps Special; Green Lantern Corps 14-15
Sinestro's army of fear has gathered: Arkillo! Karu-Sil! The Cyborg-Superman! And hundreds more of the most terrifying villains the universe has ever seen! Hal Jordan has overcome great fear throughout his life, but what fear still lingers inside him? Parallax knows, and Hal's about to be reminded as he leads Earth's Green Lanterns on a life-or-death rescue mission in the middle of this war. Meanwhile, the Guardians of the Universe find dissent within their ranks as a bizarre prophecy is fulfilled.
Collecting: Green Lantern 21-22, Sinestro Corps Special; Green Lantern Corps 14-15
176 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 2008
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About the author
Geoff Johns
2,718 books2,410 followersGeoff Johns originally hails from Detroit, Michigan. He attended Michigan State University, where he earned a degree in Media Arts and Film. He moved to Los Angeles in the late 1990s in search of work within the film industry. Through perseverance, Geoff ended up as the assistant to Richard Donner, working on Conspiracy Theory and Lethal Weapon 4. During that time, he also began his comics career writing Stars and S.T.R.I.P.E. and JSA (co-written with David S. Goyer) for DC Comics. He worked with Richard Donner for four years, leaving the company to pursue writing full-time.
His first comics assignments led to a critically acclaimed five-year run on the The Flash. Since then, he has quickly become one of the most popular and prolific comics writers today, working on such titles including a highly successful re-imagining of Green Lantern, Action Comics (co-written with Richard Donner), Teen Titans, Justice Society of America, Infinite Crisis and the experimental breakout hit series 52 for DC with Grant Morrison, Greg Rucka and Mark Waid. Geoff received the Wizard Fan Award for Breakout Talent of 2002 and Writer of the Year for 2005, 2006, 2007, and 2008 as well as the CBG Writer of the Year 2003 thru 2005, 2007 and CBG Best Comic Book Series for JSA 2001 thru 2005. Geoff also developed BLADE: THE SERIES with David S. Goyer, as well as penned the acclaimed “Legion” episode of SMALLVILLE. He also served as staff writer for the fourth season of ROBOT CHICKEN.
Geoff recently became a New York Times Bestselling author with the graphic novel Superman: Brainiac with art by Gary Frank.
His first comics assignments led to a critically acclaimed five-year run on the The Flash. Since then, he has quickly become one of the most popular and prolific comics writers today, working on such titles including a highly successful re-imagining of Green Lantern, Action Comics (co-written with Richard Donner), Teen Titans, Justice Society of America, Infinite Crisis and the experimental breakout hit series 52 for DC with Grant Morrison, Greg Rucka and Mark Waid. Geoff received the Wizard Fan Award for Breakout Talent of 2002 and Writer of the Year for 2005, 2006, 2007, and 2008 as well as the CBG Writer of the Year 2003 thru 2005, 2007 and CBG Best Comic Book Series for JSA 2001 thru 2005. Geoff also developed BLADE: THE SERIES with David S. Goyer, as well as penned the acclaimed “Legion” episode of SMALLVILLE. He also served as staff writer for the fourth season of ROBOT CHICKEN.
Geoff recently became a New York Times Bestselling author with the graphic novel Superman: Brainiac with art by Gary Frank.
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November 1, 2017
Enter the Sinestro Corps!
This harcover TPB edition contains “Green Lantern: Sinestro Corps Special”, “Green Lantern” #21-23 and “Green Lantern Corps” #14-15. Featuring the first volume of the “Sinestro Corps War” event.
Creative Team:
Writers: Geoff Johns & Dave Gibbons
Illustrators: Ivan Reis, Ethan Van Sciver & Patrick Gleason
NOTHING WILL BE THE SAME ANYMORE
In Blackest Day… In Brightest Night… Beware your fears made into light, let those who try to stop what’s right, burn like my power… Sinestro’s might!
Here, the Sinestro Corps War begins and nothing in the comic books of Green Lantern will the same anymore…
…it will be better!
This is the first step into an age of Green Lantern storytelling as never before, expanding its universe to unthinkable heights.
Since 1959, when DC Comics editor Julius Schwartz did the complete overhauling of Green Lantern title (originally created in 1940), changing everything but the very name of the comic book: new lead character, new support characters, new villains, new origin, new costume, etc… never the title of Green Lantern had had such impressive massive expansion of its own inner universe bounds, inside of the DC Comics General Universe.
Sinestro was once considered the greatest of the Green Lanterns, then exposed as a ruthless tyrant on Korugar, his own homeworld, and also the rest of his own assigned space sector. He was exiled to the Antimatter Universe, and there on the planet Qward, the Weaponers made him a new power ring but a Yellow one, the only color which the Green Lantern rings didn’t work. For decades, even with that advantage, the overwhelming numbers of the GL Corps, lead by Hal Jordan, Sinestro was beaten over and over again. It was an impossible task of one against thousands. Finally, Sinestro was confined into the GL Central Power Battery…
…and THAT was the biggest mistake by the Guardians of the Universe.
Inside of the GL Central Power Battery, Sinestro discovered the truth behind the “Yellow Impurity”, the reason why the GL Power Rings didn’t work against the yellow color. It wasn’t an impurity, it was Parallax, the very spirit of the Yellow light of fear. Sinestro used Parallax to corrupt Hal Jordan, and he was successful provoking the fall of grace of Jordan, considered a villain for quite a while; but…
…when Hal Jordan was back along with the Guardians of the Universe and the Green Lantern Corps, and now without the limitation against the Yellow color on their Green Power Rings…
…Sinestro knew that it was time for another approach…
…it was about time to balance the numbers in this conflict…
…the Sinestro Corps are born!
WILLPOWER VERSUS FEAR
Space Law and Universal Order.
Sinestro’s dream is an universe with order, and that’s why he accepted becoming a space cop.
Sinestro thought that he’d accomplish that, with the support of the Guardians of the Universe and the Green Lantern Corps, but he was wrong, they failed in their duty to enforce the law in space and to keep in order the universe.
Sinestro realized that he didn’t need them to bring order to the universe.
It was about time to raise his own Corps, recruiting from the far reaches of the universe, the most fearsome beings, each able to instill great fear in others, and each armed with a Yellow Power Ring;…
…and at the high command of the Sinestro Corps, reuniting the most unholy assemble of villains, each responsible in the past of almost destroying the multiverse by themselves alone, but now…
…together?
Have fear, have a lot of fear!
Sinestro was once the most trusted Green Lantern, therefore, he knows too well where to attack the GL Corps to put them against the ropes…
…since Sinestro still had “hope” for the GL Corps and he knows that if his insidious plans work…
…the Green Lantern Corps won’t be the same anymore!
And they’ll become exactly what Sinestro wanted since he joined them the first time.
The GL Corps only need a “little push” and now Sinestro has his own Corps to push them.
The Sinestro Corps War has begun!
This harcover TPB edition contains “Green Lantern: Sinestro Corps Special”, “Green Lantern” #21-23 and “Green Lantern Corps” #14-15. Featuring the first volume of the “Sinestro Corps War” event.
Creative Team:
Writers: Geoff Johns & Dave Gibbons
Illustrators: Ivan Reis, Ethan Van Sciver & Patrick Gleason
NOTHING WILL BE THE SAME ANYMORE
In Blackest Day… In Brightest Night… Beware your fears made into light, let those who try to stop what’s right, burn like my power… Sinestro’s might!
Here, the Sinestro Corps War begins and nothing in the comic books of Green Lantern will the same anymore…
…it will be better!
This is the first step into an age of Green Lantern storytelling as never before, expanding its universe to unthinkable heights.
Since 1959, when DC Comics editor Julius Schwartz did the complete overhauling of Green Lantern title (originally created in 1940), changing everything but the very name of the comic book: new lead character, new support characters, new villains, new origin, new costume, etc… never the title of Green Lantern had had such impressive massive expansion of its own inner universe bounds, inside of the DC Comics General Universe.
Sinestro was once considered the greatest of the Green Lanterns, then exposed as a ruthless tyrant on Korugar, his own homeworld, and also the rest of his own assigned space sector. He was exiled to the Antimatter Universe, and there on the planet Qward, the Weaponers made him a new power ring but a Yellow one, the only color which the Green Lantern rings didn’t work. For decades, even with that advantage, the overwhelming numbers of the GL Corps, lead by Hal Jordan, Sinestro was beaten over and over again. It was an impossible task of one against thousands. Finally, Sinestro was confined into the GL Central Power Battery…
…and THAT was the biggest mistake by the Guardians of the Universe.
Inside of the GL Central Power Battery, Sinestro discovered the truth behind the “Yellow Impurity”, the reason why the GL Power Rings didn’t work against the yellow color. It wasn’t an impurity, it was Parallax, the very spirit of the Yellow light of fear. Sinestro used Parallax to corrupt Hal Jordan, and he was successful provoking the fall of grace of Jordan, considered a villain for quite a while; but…
…when Hal Jordan was back along with the Guardians of the Universe and the Green Lantern Corps, and now without the limitation against the Yellow color on their Green Power Rings…
…Sinestro knew that it was time for another approach…
…it was about time to balance the numbers in this conflict…
…the Sinestro Corps are born!
WILLPOWER VERSUS FEAR
Space Law and Universal Order.
Sinestro’s dream is an universe with order, and that’s why he accepted becoming a space cop.
Sinestro thought that he’d accomplish that, with the support of the Guardians of the Universe and the Green Lantern Corps, but he was wrong, they failed in their duty to enforce the law in space and to keep in order the universe.
Sinestro realized that he didn’t need them to bring order to the universe.
It was about time to raise his own Corps, recruiting from the far reaches of the universe, the most fearsome beings, each able to instill great fear in others, and each armed with a Yellow Power Ring;…
…and at the high command of the Sinestro Corps, reuniting the most unholy assemble of villains, each responsible in the past of almost destroying the multiverse by themselves alone, but now…
…together?
Have fear, have a lot of fear!
Sinestro was once the most trusted Green Lantern, therefore, he knows too well where to attack the GL Corps to put them against the ropes…
…since Sinestro still had “hope” for the GL Corps and he knows that if his insidious plans work…
…the Green Lantern Corps won’t be the same anymore!
And they’ll become exactly what Sinestro wanted since he joined them the first time.
The GL Corps only need a “little push” and now Sinestro has his own Corps to push them.
The Sinestro Corps War has begun!
September 23, 2024
Better to rule with a yellow ring than serve with a green one - one of the most striking images ever in comics - Superboy Prime as herald of Anti-Monitor - darkness illuminated just long enough for the last light to fade from the universe. A cosmic opera that stands alone in dread and malevolence.
September 23, 2016
This is still, after reading it for the second time, the best part of Geoff johns green lantern run.
February 14, 2017
Holy shit!
The events that occurred in this volume was off the charts! So many stuff happened. So many stupid decisions were made. Damn. This was good. This was very, very good!
It's been said, again and again, that in order for a villain to be great, you, as a reader, have to be able to understand why they're doing all the fucked up shit they're doing. Sinestro is one of those villains. You hate him, but at the same time, you admire him for standing up for what he believes in. He believes fear would bring peace and order, which isn't wrong. I believe that in order for people to follow rules, they have to fear what the consequences would be if they don't follow the rules. If they don't fear, then they'll just keep on doing what they think is right, completely disregarding authority. I feel a little fear of the law won't hurt anybody. However, Sinestro has gone way too overboard with his shit.
Again, I love this! I hope when they make that Green Lantern Corps movie they won't fuck up the story because Green Lantern has one of the best stories out there. I'd hate for DC to wreck this one like they did the first GL film with Ryan Reynolds. Please... if you can't make GL good as a film, don't do it at all.
The events that occurred in this volume was off the charts! So many stuff happened. So many stupid decisions were made. Damn. This was good. This was very, very good!
It's been said, again and again, that in order for a villain to be great, you, as a reader, have to be able to understand why they're doing all the fucked up shit they're doing. Sinestro is one of those villains. You hate him, but at the same time, you admire him for standing up for what he believes in. He believes fear would bring peace and order, which isn't wrong. I believe that in order for people to follow rules, they have to fear what the consequences would be if they don't follow the rules. If they don't fear, then they'll just keep on doing what they think is right, completely disregarding authority. I feel a little fear of the law won't hurt anybody. However, Sinestro has gone way too overboard with his shit.
Again, I love this! I hope when they make that Green Lantern Corps movie they won't fuck up the story because Green Lantern has one of the best stories out there. I'd hate for DC to wreck this one like they did the first GL film with Ryan Reynolds. Please... if you can't make GL good as a film, don't do it at all.
May 5, 2025
PT O universo cósmico da DC é, talvez, dos meus preferidos no que toca a banda desenhada de super-heróis — e o Lanterna Verde está bem no centro desse cenário.
A fase de Geoff Johns é amplamente reconhecida entre os fãs da personagem, e mesmo entre leitores habituais do universo DC.
Neste volume, acompanhamos a ascensão de Sinestro e do seu Corpo, portadores da emoção do medo, após o seu exílio como Lanterna Verde.
Uma leitura sólida, repleta de personagens já bem conhecidas deste vasto universo.
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EN The cosmic side of the DC Universe is perhaps one of my favourites when it comes to superhero comics — and Green Lantern is right at the heart of it.
Geoff Johns’ run is widely recognised among fans of the character, and even among regular DC readers.
In this volume, we follow the rise of Sinestro and his Corps, wielders of the emotion of fear, following his exile as a Green Lantern.
A solid read, filled with familiar characters from this vast universe.
A fase de Geoff Johns é amplamente reconhecida entre os fãs da personagem, e mesmo entre leitores habituais do universo DC.
Neste volume, acompanhamos a ascensão de Sinestro e do seu Corpo, portadores da emoção do medo, após o seu exílio como Lanterna Verde.
Uma leitura sólida, repleta de personagens já bem conhecidas deste vasto universo.
--
EN The cosmic side of the DC Universe is perhaps one of my favourites when it comes to superhero comics — and Green Lantern is right at the heart of it.
Geoff Johns’ run is widely recognised among fans of the character, and even among regular DC readers.
In this volume, we follow the rise of Sinestro and his Corps, wielders of the emotion of fear, following his exile as a Green Lantern.
A solid read, filled with familiar characters from this vast universe.
August 22, 2017
This has an epic feel to it. The Green Lantern Corps really has its back against the wall in this story. It's fun to see the crazy variety of aliens that are in the Green Lantern Corps and the Sinestro Corps. Also, there are some really creepy art pieces of Sinestro as well that are worth looking at. I wasn't a fan of what happened to Kyle Rayner, though. He deserves a little more respect as a character.
March 4, 2016
Holy poozers! This is action packed. The quick and dirty is that Sinestro has created his own army and seeks to destroy the Guardians, the Green Lantern Corps, and control the multiverse. And guess who's on his team? You'll never guess. This is event level action, splash pages filled full of characters, written at a breakneck pace. Holy poozers, indeed!
August 3, 2015
Three and a half stars.
Good story. Lots of action. High body count. And lots of characters popping up every page. Something that confused the hell out of me.
As for the art, it was good. There were some rough spots, but it did its job: telling the story.
High point for me is Sinestro. I'm really learning to appreciate him as a complex villain, who is evil but relatable.
Next volume of story is on the way to my local library. Can't wait to read it.
Good story. Lots of action. High body count. And lots of characters popping up every page. Something that confused the hell out of me.
As for the art, it was good. There were some rough spots, but it did its job: telling the story.
High point for me is Sinestro. I'm really learning to appreciate him as a complex villain, who is evil but relatable.
Next volume of story is on the way to my local library. Can't wait to read it.
February 8, 2019
Still one of the best events ever. Super high stakes, amazing fights, and some interesting twist. I did a much bigger review in my green lantern omnibus volume 1 review but Green Lantern Sinestro Corps War is some amazing stuff.
April 30, 2014
This has to be Geoff Johns best work if not could someone kindly tell me what is. I mean Jesus the amount of top tier baddies doing what baddies do best (i.e endlessly tormenting our heroes). Also the body count of fallen Green Lanterns in this volume alone is just mind blowing (I’m going to really miss you elephant’ish looking dude).
Really looking forward to reading the next volume.
Really looking forward to reading the next volume.
July 2, 2016
This volume was the most action packed comic I've ever read, so many things happening in every pages, so many fights, so many deaths. It was everything i wanted from a GL book. The characters were awesome, Geoff Johns' writing was solid, and so was the art.
December 28, 2015
Great story that leads into the Blackest Night Storyline.
November 9, 2024
4/5 Stars
Individual issues rated below -
Green Lantern #21: 4/5
Green Lantern #22: 4/5
Green Lantern Sinestro Corps Special #1: 4.5/5
Green Lantern Corps #14: 3.5/5
Green Lantern Corps #15: 3.5/5
Individual issues rated below -
Green Lantern #21: 4/5
Green Lantern #22: 4/5
Green Lantern Sinestro Corps Special #1: 4.5/5
Green Lantern Corps #14: 3.5/5
Green Lantern Corps #15: 3.5/5
December 9, 2015
Now this is what I'm talking about!
Oh I love me a good space opera with it's drama and simple emotions and hectic pace, this is what a good GL story is all about.
World: Johns has been pretty much doing a bang up job rebuilding the world and it's lore since taking up the job with Rebirth and now we see the first big event and status quo changing shifts in the GL universe. There are a lot of moving parts here and this is one of those cases where the multiple books really make sense in building a cohesive event and all taking up the world building load. The pieces that have been moved and put in play since both GL Rebirth and GLC Recharged is impressive. From Qwarth to Ranx to all the different sectors and locals this truly is a wonderful series if you love world building. I especially enjoyed the new look at Qwarth this arc and the reintroduction of the antimatter universe it feels so old school but at the same time new. Additionally the further introduction building of the Korugar story and Blackest Night prophecy are great setups for future storylines. Johns and Gleason clearly love this world and art using the world to it's full advantage. Amazing!
Story: Wow so many stories and so many events happen in this first half of the Sinestro Corps War event. I've been so very much exhausted with event books in the last couple of years, too many tie ins that are mediocre and pointless and just full of mindless action, this is not the case here. This is what an event done right feels like. Jumping off from the wonderful world building that has been going on in both the main GL book and the Corps book we have multiple storylines during this event that make sense. Add to that the interweaving of all of these stories into the bigger fabric of the greater story is great. All these stories happening with Hal, Guy, John, Kyle, Kilowag, Mogo, Stel, Arisa, Sodam, Ganthet, Sayd....the list goes on, but all of their stories matter. This is rare and I really enjoy that aspect. Each issue is a balls to the wall breakneck paced event that reads great but also serve the greater purpose of the war. GL has always been known to be a fast reading and space operay type of series and this book shows it in all it's full glory. It's loud, it's bombastic, it's melodramatic and I am loving all of it.
Characters: Wow there are a lot of characters to juggle and a lot of characters to deal with in terms of their emotions and arcs (as this series and the direction the Johns and Co. are taking it is the creating of the emotional spectrum). Everyone gets time to develop, some more than most but all of it is earned and justified. I really like how each of them much like GL Rebirth get a shot of development in terms of their relations to fear. Johns digs into each characters past and pulls out the emotional heart of what drives these characters fears and plays with them with great effect. Also with the wonderful world building all these things are linked by character development also. Characters like Mogo and Kilowag and the lost lanterns which were revived through wonderful world building now attribute to the series' wonderful character building and development also now. The characters are diverse and fun and even on both sides it's great. One last thing I would also like to say is that Sinestro is wonderfully written, much more than a mustache twirling villain he is regal and charismatic in his portrayal and his corps though emotionally understandable but motivationally murky are a fun group to read (It seems Sinestro the only one with a clear plan of using Fear to control the universe while all his minions are just people who like to scare...much like Monsters Inc :P).
Wonderful space opera at it's best and an example of how to execute an event without all the bloated pointless tie-ins of the modern event book (though Johns does fall prey to that eventually with Blackest Night). This is an event book that all GL readers should experience.
Onward to the next book!
Oh I love me a good space opera with it's drama and simple emotions and hectic pace, this is what a good GL story is all about.
World: Johns has been pretty much doing a bang up job rebuilding the world and it's lore since taking up the job with Rebirth and now we see the first big event and status quo changing shifts in the GL universe. There are a lot of moving parts here and this is one of those cases where the multiple books really make sense in building a cohesive event and all taking up the world building load. The pieces that have been moved and put in play since both GL Rebirth and GLC Recharged is impressive. From Qwarth to Ranx to all the different sectors and locals this truly is a wonderful series if you love world building. I especially enjoyed the new look at Qwarth this arc and the reintroduction of the antimatter universe it feels so old school but at the same time new. Additionally the further introduction building of the Korugar story and Blackest Night prophecy are great setups for future storylines. Johns and Gleason clearly love this world and art using the world to it's full advantage. Amazing!
Story: Wow so many stories and so many events happen in this first half of the Sinestro Corps War event. I've been so very much exhausted with event books in the last couple of years, too many tie ins that are mediocre and pointless and just full of mindless action, this is not the case here. This is what an event done right feels like. Jumping off from the wonderful world building that has been going on in both the main GL book and the Corps book we have multiple storylines during this event that make sense. Add to that the interweaving of all of these stories into the bigger fabric of the greater story is great. All these stories happening with Hal, Guy, John, Kyle, Kilowag, Mogo, Stel, Arisa, Sodam, Ganthet, Sayd....the list goes on, but all of their stories matter. This is rare and I really enjoy that aspect. Each issue is a balls to the wall breakneck paced event that reads great but also serve the greater purpose of the war. GL has always been known to be a fast reading and space operay type of series and this book shows it in all it's full glory. It's loud, it's bombastic, it's melodramatic and I am loving all of it.
Characters: Wow there are a lot of characters to juggle and a lot of characters to deal with in terms of their emotions and arcs (as this series and the direction the Johns and Co. are taking it is the creating of the emotional spectrum). Everyone gets time to develop, some more than most but all of it is earned and justified. I really like how each of them much like GL Rebirth get a shot of development in terms of their relations to fear. Johns digs into each characters past and pulls out the emotional heart of what drives these characters fears and plays with them with great effect. Also with the wonderful world building all these things are linked by character development also. Characters like Mogo and Kilowag and the lost lanterns which were revived through wonderful world building now attribute to the series' wonderful character building and development also now. The characters are diverse and fun and even on both sides it's great. One last thing I would also like to say is that Sinestro is wonderfully written, much more than a mustache twirling villain he is regal and charismatic in his portrayal and his corps though emotionally understandable but motivationally murky are a fun group to read (It seems Sinestro the only one with a clear plan of using Fear to control the universe while all his minions are just people who like to scare...much like Monsters Inc :P).
Wonderful space opera at it's best and an example of how to execute an event without all the bloated pointless tie-ins of the modern event book (though Johns does fall prey to that eventually with Blackest Night). This is an event book that all GL readers should experience.
Onward to the next book!
March 17, 2021
5 🌟
The Green Lanterns and Sinestro Corps fight.
The Green Lanterns and Sinestro Corps fight.
September 30, 2015
Meh... This was an okay read. So i think perhaps the reason why i gave this only a 3 stars is because it was over hyped, my one friend went on for years about how amazing this was, and now that i read it there was no way this book could match the over hype!
So let me break it down, the story is that Sinestro has risen an army and wants to kill the green lantern corp... that's about it..
The Positives i would say would be Ivan Reis artwork, and the story did have some great moments, some of the fight scenes Particularly ones with Superboy Prime (From Infinite Crisis) were intense!
The negatives, some fight scenes were bland, i didn't like the art whenever certain issues would switch to a different artist (But they quickly switch back to Ivan Reis); and the story being a lack there of. Honestly this was not a bad story at all, but please fight scenes are cool, but i want some story now and again, which this book does deliver but not enough. Overall this an okay story, and of course serves as a prequel to Blackest Night!
So let me break it down, the story is that Sinestro has risen an army and wants to kill the green lantern corp... that's about it..
The Positives i would say would be Ivan Reis artwork, and the story did have some great moments, some of the fight scenes Particularly ones with Superboy Prime (From Infinite Crisis) were intense!
The negatives, some fight scenes were bland, i didn't like the art whenever certain issues would switch to a different artist (But they quickly switch back to Ivan Reis); and the story being a lack there of. Honestly this was not a bad story at all, but please fight scenes are cool, but i want some story now and again, which this book does deliver but not enough. Overall this an okay story, and of course serves as a prequel to Blackest Night!
November 24, 2020
This was a gigantic read, but quite fun! The start of the greatest GL story when Sinestro Corps invade Oa and destroy the different members of the GLC and in their reanks we have Sinestro, Superboy-Prime, Cyborg Superman, ANTI-MONITOR and so many more, its a war of fear and courage! In the first part we have them suddenly attacking, Hal having to reform the corps, sinestro origins and how he became the way he is, Kyle taken to Qward and becoming Parallax, Hal dealing with his fears, Kyle coming to terms with that painting, Lanterns having to rescue Ion and war for MOGO, so that it doesn't fall and Hal and others rescuing Guy and John! Its an epic start to a story that defines the GLC! Hal has good moments but the main focus is on other characters and the larger scope of the story and the art is gorgeous! So many splash pages and so many characters to follow, its so well done!
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
July 1, 2013
This is the landmark story arc that change the Green Lantern mythos forever. Sinestro finds the yellow element of fear and with it creates his own Lantern Corps. to seemingly replace the Green Lanterns and the Guardians of the universe. Hal Jordan, Green Lantern of earth must face his fears in order to defeat Sinestro. DC Comics fans get exciting surprises in this volume like the "Crisis" villains the AntiMonitor, Super-boy Prime and Cyborg Superman. The action never slows down and you will be cheering for the good guys all the way until the end. This is Geoff Johns best issues on Green Lantern thus far.The artwork is not that bad at all either. This is a must read for any comic book fan or anyone curious about Green Lantern.
October 22, 2013
Longer review possibly coming.
STORY/PLOTTING/PANELS: B to B plus; CHARACTERS/DIALOGUE: B plus;
ACTION: B to B plus; ARTWORK PRESENTATION: B to B plus; GREEN LANTERN MYTHOLOGY: B plus to A minus; OVERALL GRADE: B plus; WHEN READ: end of October 2013.
STORY/PLOTTING/PANELS: B to B plus; CHARACTERS/DIALOGUE: B plus;
ACTION: B to B plus; ARTWORK PRESENTATION: B to B plus; GREEN LANTERN MYTHOLOGY: B plus to A minus; OVERALL GRADE: B plus; WHEN READ: end of October 2013.
January 19, 2012
This book series is taking off like gangbusters. A must read!
June 19, 2022
this is so epic omg one of the best dc comics FR
January 10, 2011
So. Following reading Green Lantern: Rebirth, I wanted some more. It was nice to visit that universe again and the book itself, though a ‘complete story’ (beginning, middle and end), really did have that ‘jumping off point’ feel to it. They were intentionally setting up what was to come and drawing a line from which new people could hop on and old fans like me could dive back in. Really, it was the precursor to the whole ‘Blackest Night’ mega event crossover thing (which I came to hate when I was collecting comics).
Luckily for me, the sequel event/story was also available in trade paperback / graphic novel format, so I picked it up to check it out.
For those not in the know, Sinestro is the greatest enemy the Green Lantern has ever had. He was also their greatest member a long time ago.
The story goes that Sinestro was the greatest Green Lantern of all time; the Guardians on OA held him up as an example for all other Lanterns to follow and emulate. When the very first human from earth joined the corps, the Guardians decided that their greatest Lantern needed to be the one to train him, so they sent Sinestro to find and train Hal Jordan.
Jordan and he clashed from the get-go. Sinestro believed in his own brand of order and justice, so much so that he conquered his own homeworld, Korugar, and ruled there for years as a dictator. Eventually he was tried by the Guardians and sent to the antimatter universe where he allied himself with powerful beings there who forged a yellow power ring for him, yellow being the one color that a Green Lantern could not defend themself against due to an impurity built-into their power rings.
Throughout the years since, Sinestro fought and was defeated time and again by Hal Jordan and the Green Lanterns, so he was due a little retribution.
Enter: The Sinestro Corps War.
Paperback: 176 pages
Publisher: DC Comics (May 5, 2009)
The Sinestro Corps War is a trade paperback / graphic novel that compiles the events seen in Green Lantern 21-23, Green Lantern Corps 14-5 & the Green Lantern: Sinestro Corps Special all published by DC Comics.
If you haven’t read Green Lantern: Rebirth, you may want to stop reading this right now because there are spoilers going forward. In order to explain this books story, I have to give away that books secrets, which I avoided in my review.
So, you’ve been forewarned.
Go forward, get spoilers.
Okay?
Okay. So. The Green Lantern’s use power rings that are connected to a central battery on the planet OA, home to the Guardian’s. They created the battery, the lanterns that access it, the rings and the Corps. Originally, the Green Lantern Corps protected the universe sector by sector, one Lantern per sector. Today’s Corps uses pairs for each sector – so they’ve adopted the buddy system.
To use the power rings, one must have great willpower and little or no fear (or be able to conquer your fears). This is due to the yellow impurity within the rings energy, which is actually a living creature named Parallax. Parallax was able to infect Hal Jordan and do a ton of damage. A similar, willpower based creature also lived in the central core of the battery on OA, keeping Parallax in check at first and then, later, bonding with Kyle Rayner in much the same way as Parallax had infected Hal Jordan.
Thus, ION was born.
Kyle Rayner, once the ‘last’ Green Lantern, is now a beacon for the new Lantern Corps. When the story begins, we see Sinestro preparing something while Hal Jordan and the Justice League search for his whereabouts. Meanwhile, Ion comes across a yellow power ring making its way across the universe, then he realizes that it’s just one of many rings crisscrossing the universe in search of something.
Rayner captures a ring and then returns to OA where he finds the other Green Lantern’s from earth, Hal Jordan, John Stewart and Guy Gardner, all waiting for an audience with the Guardian’s. Suddenly the yellow ring, sensing Kyle’s despair over his mother’s recent death, goes crazy and captures him, transporting him to the antimatter universe and to the planet Qward where he encounters: The Sinestro Corps
Before the Green Lantern’s can mount a rescue, a coordinated attack happens all around the universe.
To their horror, the members of the Sinestro Corps, powered by yellow rings that the Lantern’s cannot defend against, begin killing Green Lantern’s all across the universe causing their rings to seek out new, worthy beings.
Back on Qward, Kyle Rayner is separated from the being that gives him his power as Ion and is instead infected by the creature known as Parallax.
The Green Lantern’s, lead by Hal Jordan, mount a rescue mission into the antimatter universe while the rest of the Corps, lead by Kilowog, try to counter attack the Sinestro Corps but their inability to fight off the yellow energy of Sinestro’s forces, coupled with the fact that the Sinestro Corps can actually kill where the Lantern’s cannot, means that they keep getting pushed further and further back.
Oddly, in the middle of all of this, Sinestro himself takes the time for a side trip to his home world, Korugar, where he confronts and defeats the current Green Lantern assigned to that sector, Soranik Natu. I say this is odd because it seems to kill the pacing of the book even though it’s a very Sinestro thing to do given that he used to rule that planet and the people there still fear him and any Green Lantern.
The Guardians decide that there is really only one solution if they don’t want to lose the war they didn’t even know was coming, one thing they can do to tip the scales and give their Lantern’s a fighting chance.
Lethal Force Has Been Enabled. Lantern’s all over the universe hear the same message coming from their rings. The gloves are off, the stakes set. War.
Having said all of that, I want to add – this is a much more disjointed story versus Green Lantern: Rebirth. I think that’s because this is the first act of a greater story (the whole ‘Blackest Night’ mega-crossover-extravaganza-lollapalooza-lillth-fair-ozzfest-icecapades-thingie). They had to cut it up to make it readable as a single volume and they did the best that they could, but, as with all of these massive mega-crossover events, there are too many threads to compress down. So, there’s a second volume to this that I don’t have yet and, of course, the whole ‘Blackest Night’ thing after that.
Because this is a disjointed story, it’s much harder to follow along versus Rebirth. I keep saying ‘disjointed’ even though, really, I mean – they put it all together in the order that it appeared, so I guess it’s not really disjointed, it just feels that way. Is that poor storytelling or do you really need to have all the subsequent volumes to see the whole picture and have it all make sense? Probably. But that’s the problem with the crossovers like this. I think they go too far, they try for too much and, in the end, they lose the reader because of it.
I’m a fan of Green Lantern and I enjoyed this book, but nowhere near as much as Rebirth. I think, if you’re not a fan, you’ll struggle with this one.
The Sinestro Corps War will run you $15 at your local store sans any discounts you might receive or you can find it online for around $10.
~P
Luckily for me, the sequel event/story was also available in trade paperback / graphic novel format, so I picked it up to check it out.
For those not in the know, Sinestro is the greatest enemy the Green Lantern has ever had. He was also their greatest member a long time ago.
The story goes that Sinestro was the greatest Green Lantern of all time; the Guardians on OA held him up as an example for all other Lanterns to follow and emulate. When the very first human from earth joined the corps, the Guardians decided that their greatest Lantern needed to be the one to train him, so they sent Sinestro to find and train Hal Jordan.
Jordan and he clashed from the get-go. Sinestro believed in his own brand of order and justice, so much so that he conquered his own homeworld, Korugar, and ruled there for years as a dictator. Eventually he was tried by the Guardians and sent to the antimatter universe where he allied himself with powerful beings there who forged a yellow power ring for him, yellow being the one color that a Green Lantern could not defend themself against due to an impurity built-into their power rings.
Throughout the years since, Sinestro fought and was defeated time and again by Hal Jordan and the Green Lanterns, so he was due a little retribution.
Enter: The Sinestro Corps War.
Paperback: 176 pages
Publisher: DC Comics (May 5, 2009)
The Sinestro Corps War is a trade paperback / graphic novel that compiles the events seen in Green Lantern 21-23, Green Lantern Corps 14-5 & the Green Lantern: Sinestro Corps Special all published by DC Comics.
If you haven’t read Green Lantern: Rebirth, you may want to stop reading this right now because there are spoilers going forward. In order to explain this books story, I have to give away that books secrets, which I avoided in my review.
So, you’ve been forewarned.
Go forward, get spoilers.
Okay?
Okay. So. The Green Lantern’s use power rings that are connected to a central battery on the planet OA, home to the Guardian’s. They created the battery, the lanterns that access it, the rings and the Corps. Originally, the Green Lantern Corps protected the universe sector by sector, one Lantern per sector. Today’s Corps uses pairs for each sector – so they’ve adopted the buddy system.
To use the power rings, one must have great willpower and little or no fear (or be able to conquer your fears). This is due to the yellow impurity within the rings energy, which is actually a living creature named Parallax. Parallax was able to infect Hal Jordan and do a ton of damage. A similar, willpower based creature also lived in the central core of the battery on OA, keeping Parallax in check at first and then, later, bonding with Kyle Rayner in much the same way as Parallax had infected Hal Jordan.
Thus, ION was born.
Kyle Rayner, once the ‘last’ Green Lantern, is now a beacon for the new Lantern Corps. When the story begins, we see Sinestro preparing something while Hal Jordan and the Justice League search for his whereabouts. Meanwhile, Ion comes across a yellow power ring making its way across the universe, then he realizes that it’s just one of many rings crisscrossing the universe in search of something.
Rayner captures a ring and then returns to OA where he finds the other Green Lantern’s from earth, Hal Jordan, John Stewart and Guy Gardner, all waiting for an audience with the Guardian’s. Suddenly the yellow ring, sensing Kyle’s despair over his mother’s recent death, goes crazy and captures him, transporting him to the antimatter universe and to the planet Qward where he encounters: The Sinestro Corps
Before the Green Lantern’s can mount a rescue, a coordinated attack happens all around the universe.
To their horror, the members of the Sinestro Corps, powered by yellow rings that the Lantern’s cannot defend against, begin killing Green Lantern’s all across the universe causing their rings to seek out new, worthy beings.
Back on Qward, Kyle Rayner is separated from the being that gives him his power as Ion and is instead infected by the creature known as Parallax.
The Green Lantern’s, lead by Hal Jordan, mount a rescue mission into the antimatter universe while the rest of the Corps, lead by Kilowog, try to counter attack the Sinestro Corps but their inability to fight off the yellow energy of Sinestro’s forces, coupled with the fact that the Sinestro Corps can actually kill where the Lantern’s cannot, means that they keep getting pushed further and further back.
Oddly, in the middle of all of this, Sinestro himself takes the time for a side trip to his home world, Korugar, where he confronts and defeats the current Green Lantern assigned to that sector, Soranik Natu. I say this is odd because it seems to kill the pacing of the book even though it’s a very Sinestro thing to do given that he used to rule that planet and the people there still fear him and any Green Lantern.
The Guardians decide that there is really only one solution if they don’t want to lose the war they didn’t even know was coming, one thing they can do to tip the scales and give their Lantern’s a fighting chance.
Lethal Force Has Been Enabled. Lantern’s all over the universe hear the same message coming from their rings. The gloves are off, the stakes set. War.
Having said all of that, I want to add – this is a much more disjointed story versus Green Lantern: Rebirth. I think that’s because this is the first act of a greater story (the whole ‘Blackest Night’ mega-crossover-extravaganza-lollapalooza-lillth-fair-ozzfest-icecapades-thingie). They had to cut it up to make it readable as a single volume and they did the best that they could, but, as with all of these massive mega-crossover events, there are too many threads to compress down. So, there’s a second volume to this that I don’t have yet and, of course, the whole ‘Blackest Night’ thing after that.
Because this is a disjointed story, it’s much harder to follow along versus Rebirth. I keep saying ‘disjointed’ even though, really, I mean – they put it all together in the order that it appeared, so I guess it’s not really disjointed, it just feels that way. Is that poor storytelling or do you really need to have all the subsequent volumes to see the whole picture and have it all make sense? Probably. But that’s the problem with the crossovers like this. I think they go too far, they try for too much and, in the end, they lose the reader because of it.
I’m a fan of Green Lantern and I enjoyed this book, but nowhere near as much as Rebirth. I think, if you’re not a fan, you’ll struggle with this one.
The Sinestro Corps War will run you $15 at your local store sans any discounts you might receive or you can find it online for around $10.
~P
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
February 14, 2021
As fun as it is seeing the culmination of Hal Jordan's saga as the reborn Green Lantern, it is a major bummer that a major turning point in the plot revolves around authorizing the Green Lantern Corps to use lethal force. Turning space cops into killers as the only way to defeat the bad guys just doesn't sit right with me.
July 16, 2023
Woah.
Epic, action-packed, colorful, nonstop, and beautiful! This was amazing! I loved it so much and I can’t wait to read Part 2.
Epic, action-packed, colorful, nonstop, and beautiful! This was amazing! I loved it so much and I can’t wait to read Part 2.
January 4, 2018
This is like.... the absolute definition of "that escalated quickly."
July 10, 2023
o geoff johns ser um lixo torna o fato disso aqui ser TÃO bom triste, né?
June 18, 2021
5 🌟
Sinestro has created the Sinestro Corps and made their base in the dark matter universe. They attack the Green Lantern Corps. The Guardians are afraid the Blackest Night Prophecy is coming true.
Wanted to see what I was unable to enlarge in the kindle edition.
Sinestro has created the Sinestro Corps and made their base in the dark matter universe. They attack the Green Lantern Corps. The Guardians are afraid the Blackest Night Prophecy is coming true.
Wanted to see what I was unable to enlarge in the kindle edition.
February 5, 2012
(Note: This is a review of the paperback: Green Lantern: The Sinestro Corps War the twelve chapter collected edition that republishes Green Lantern #21-25, Green Lantern Corps #14-19 and Green Lantern: Sinestro Corps Special. I have noticed that some of these reviews are of a different book that only contains half of this material.)
As the title suggests, The Sinestro Corps War is about a war, but it isn't like any of those wars you hear about on the news. In this war the enemy consists entirely of sadistic, merciless monsters, who joined their side for no other reason than the desire to kill and inflict suffering. They aren't depicted as having fears or families or any aspiration to ever do anything positive, just a wonton lust for blood. Don't you wish real wars were like that, with no shades of grey at all? It would make it so much easier to support without any pangs of doubt.
The book is 90% pure action, and when I say action, I mean crowded, confusing splash pages of "pew, pew, pew, BOOM!" and good luck guessing what you're looking at, whose getting killed and whose winning. These pages would make marvelous posters, but sequential art is meant to tell the reader a story, and the art in this book downright fails to do that. When it's not splash pages, the panels are laid out so awry that I'm never sure what direction to read in, and this is a minor complaint, but often small panels are placed in the middle of the crease between pages making it impossible to get a good look at the art in this thick collected edition.
The book is culled from four issues of Green Lantern and five of Green Lantern Corps and switches back and forth between THREE different writers with each chapter, often depicting the same event multiple times, even leaving us wondering how this could all fit together. Don't get me started on Geoff Johns cumpulsive need to kick off every one of his chapters with two or three pages recapping Jordan's origin, his actions while under another's control, death, rebirth and the story IN THIS BOOK so far. It features a cast of seemingly thousands of two-dimentional characters that the reader won't get straight before they're gleefully killed off by the authors, yet the four Green Lanterns from Earth plus fan-favorite Kilowog predictably breeze through all conflicts to fight another day, despite these same five depicted dead on the cover. Things get so over the top, three full chapters are focused on a battle between two sentient planets. There's a useless subplot about a Daxamite (read Kryptonian) Lantern with a destiny that goes absolutely nowhere, save straight into a wall. Several characters readers surely never wanted to see again surface, including one that was originally created as a love letter to DC's fans, but recently (at the time of publication) repurposed as an insult to the very same. A few things that happen at the end, I can't reveal without spoilers, but the logic of these actions astounds me.
And in the end we're told this overblown technicolor spectacle of fire and light is nothing more than a tease of something even more massive in scale to come.
Event comics suck when not done right. and "right" is once every 15 to 20 years.
As the title suggests, The Sinestro Corps War is about a war, but it isn't like any of those wars you hear about on the news. In this war the enemy consists entirely of sadistic, merciless monsters, who joined their side for no other reason than the desire to kill and inflict suffering. They aren't depicted as having fears or families or any aspiration to ever do anything positive, just a wonton lust for blood. Don't you wish real wars were like that, with no shades of grey at all? It would make it so much easier to support without any pangs of doubt.
The book is 90% pure action, and when I say action, I mean crowded, confusing splash pages of "pew, pew, pew, BOOM!" and good luck guessing what you're looking at, whose getting killed and whose winning. These pages would make marvelous posters, but sequential art is meant to tell the reader a story, and the art in this book downright fails to do that. When it's not splash pages, the panels are laid out so awry that I'm never sure what direction to read in, and this is a minor complaint, but often small panels are placed in the middle of the crease between pages making it impossible to get a good look at the art in this thick collected edition.
The book is culled from four issues of Green Lantern and five of Green Lantern Corps and switches back and forth between THREE different writers with each chapter, often depicting the same event multiple times, even leaving us wondering how this could all fit together. Don't get me started on Geoff Johns cumpulsive need to kick off every one of his chapters with two or three pages recapping Jordan's origin, his actions while under another's control, death, rebirth and the story IN THIS BOOK so far. It features a cast of seemingly thousands of two-dimentional characters that the reader won't get straight before they're gleefully killed off by the authors, yet the four Green Lanterns from Earth plus fan-favorite Kilowog predictably breeze through all conflicts to fight another day, despite these same five depicted dead on the cover. Things get so over the top, three full chapters are focused on a battle between two sentient planets. There's a useless subplot about a Daxamite (read Kryptonian) Lantern with a destiny that goes absolutely nowhere, save straight into a wall. Several characters readers surely never wanted to see again surface, including one that was originally created as a love letter to DC's fans, but recently (at the time of publication) repurposed as an insult to the very same. A few things that happen at the end, I can't reveal without spoilers, but the logic of these actions astounds me.
And in the end we're told this overblown technicolor spectacle of fire and light is nothing more than a tease of something even more massive in scale to come.
Event comics suck when not done right. and "right" is once every 15 to 20 years.
March 1, 2008
This review appears for both volumes of the collected Sinestro Corps War story.
How about that, they made me a Green Lantern fan. You know, the superhero with the magic ring that makes him travel around space as a bright green policeman? Geoff Jones and a wonderful art staff managed to grasp all the best parts of this superhero mythos and create some very engaging fantasy by tapping into grand themes. Green represents life and willpower; the absurd weakness to yellow is because yellow represents fear, and this storyline is about the war between an army of fear-mongers and the army of just, strong-willed people. Here we see great compromises: emotion is sacrificed for logic, morals against killing are bent for survival, and even the villains have grand motivations that far transcend the old "I'll get you, Green Lantern!" Saturday morning cartoons. One villain serves the fear mongers out of a hope to end his immortal life; another to reach his ideal home world, viewing our earth as a moral wasteland; still another has a motive I can't dare spoil, but it's bloody brilliant. The heroes likewise avoid being pure moral goody-goodies and the newer cliche of the hopeless post-modern anti-heroes, though they are still honestly upstaged by the generals of the yellow army. The battles are some of the grandest in all comics, which should satisfy that burning desire for superhero readers. The scale of the armies and the powers of their generals are genuinely impressive, in no small part because of the beautiful art. But what's really moving in this is all truly human insecurities and struggles embodied in the major characters of this war, accomplished better than most prose fantasy and science fiction novels.
How about that, they made me a Green Lantern fan. You know, the superhero with the magic ring that makes him travel around space as a bright green policeman? Geoff Jones and a wonderful art staff managed to grasp all the best parts of this superhero mythos and create some very engaging fantasy by tapping into grand themes. Green represents life and willpower; the absurd weakness to yellow is because yellow represents fear, and this storyline is about the war between an army of fear-mongers and the army of just, strong-willed people. Here we see great compromises: emotion is sacrificed for logic, morals against killing are bent for survival, and even the villains have grand motivations that far transcend the old "I'll get you, Green Lantern!" Saturday morning cartoons. One villain serves the fear mongers out of a hope to end his immortal life; another to reach his ideal home world, viewing our earth as a moral wasteland; still another has a motive I can't dare spoil, but it's bloody brilliant. The heroes likewise avoid being pure moral goody-goodies and the newer cliche of the hopeless post-modern anti-heroes, though they are still honestly upstaged by the generals of the yellow army. The battles are some of the grandest in all comics, which should satisfy that burning desire for superhero readers. The scale of the armies and the powers of their generals are genuinely impressive, in no small part because of the beautiful art. But what's really moving in this is all truly human insecurities and struggles embodied in the major characters of this war, accomplished better than most prose fantasy and science fiction novels.
May 6, 2014
Traditional meets contemporary in Green Lantern: The Sinestro Corps War, written by Geoff Johns and Dave Gibbons. The tried and true villain-fights-hero plot is peppered with more modern notions of character development and emotional conflict as former allies become foes and the fate of the galaxy is at stake.
Sinestro, the once exemplary member of the Green Lantern Corps, was banished for harnessing the power of fear and now seeks to destroy his former brethren and take over the galaxy. And he’s amassed an army of familiar villains to do it. With nightmare-worthy characters like Parallax, Karu-Sil, and Cyborg Superman, the Sinestro Corps (otherwise known as the Yellow Lanterns) certainly seem up to the challenge of defeating the apparently endless supply of Green Lantern Corps members, including Guy Gardner, Kyle Rayner, and of course Hal Jordan.
My favourite part of this graphic novel is the art, which is detailed and dark without being overly traditional and stiff. Big names such as Ivan Reis, Patrick Gleason, and Ethan Van Sciver blend their new school and old school styles to create a unique aesthetic that is both recognizably “comic book,” but also dynamic in its use of colour and colour transition.
Good for both hardcore comic fans and newcomers alike, Green Lantern: The Sinestro Corps War is certainly a book I’d recommend to anyone interested in taking up a quick two-volume series. Though the expansive Green Lantern universe can seem daunting, this graphic novel provides enough backstory to make sense, and compartmentalizes enough to not be overwhelming.
(via theotherpress.ca)
Sinestro, the once exemplary member of the Green Lantern Corps, was banished for harnessing the power of fear and now seeks to destroy his former brethren and take over the galaxy. And he’s amassed an army of familiar villains to do it. With nightmare-worthy characters like Parallax, Karu-Sil, and Cyborg Superman, the Sinestro Corps (otherwise known as the Yellow Lanterns) certainly seem up to the challenge of defeating the apparently endless supply of Green Lantern Corps members, including Guy Gardner, Kyle Rayner, and of course Hal Jordan.
My favourite part of this graphic novel is the art, which is detailed and dark without being overly traditional and stiff. Big names such as Ivan Reis, Patrick Gleason, and Ethan Van Sciver blend their new school and old school styles to create a unique aesthetic that is both recognizably “comic book,” but also dynamic in its use of colour and colour transition.
Good for both hardcore comic fans and newcomers alike, Green Lantern: The Sinestro Corps War is certainly a book I’d recommend to anyone interested in taking up a quick two-volume series. Though the expansive Green Lantern universe can seem daunting, this graphic novel provides enough backstory to make sense, and compartmentalizes enough to not be overwhelming.
(via theotherpress.ca)
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