Name: Absolute Green Lantern (2025-) #13
Rating: 3.48 (18 reviews)

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April 10, 2026

That was completely unexpected and totally brilliant, I love it!! Our focus is completely shifted this issue, instead of opening with OA and the ring communicating with someone…we start with the blackstar computer program running through its checks. It looks over the different protocols (black, red, green, yellow) and finds all of them working well…but then it checks pink, and as if responding to Hal’s change last issue…something is wrong, it begins to error out but it can’t track the error the man that has escaped them. So it contacts a local agent…SIN/ES/TRO. It very much sounds like the blackstar program is built on Manhunter code. It seems Sinestro is aware of the situation and is jumping ahead of it, he could deal with one Tomar Re without issue, especially as he is red, but now there is two and the new one comes from the green and if they are working together that poses a problem, especially as Earth is outside of their sector of control. Sinestro is of course on the way to face the green lantern stationed there with Mogo…but the planet moves at its own pace and he is worried they will come after them with the lantern first. As such Sinestro contacts their small team stationed on the world on the outer rim of their control…Rann! Sinestro wants Rann to be ready with their heavy hitters if the lantern passes by, he wants them to take their shot. But the overseer doesn’t have much to work with, he has already had trouble converting the locals to the blackstar way as they know he is an outsider. But even so Sinestro orders them to take every black hand they have to ready them to take the largest shot they have if the lantern passes by…whelp, let’s hope there is nothing on planet that requires heavy weapons, lol.

Rann exists there is a high chance Adam strange may as well, and the overseer Sinestro is talking to has a very Adam Strange-esque helmet. But that is just the general helmet design for blackstars this far out. Plus as the overseer takes his next meeting…we get to discover exactly who he is. Suddenly Sardath (what’s up dude!) is dragged in as he has been testing with sciences against their rule, specifically he has been testing with communicator beams he calls zeta beams which they fear he could be using to call for help. But it turns out it was not the helmet of the overseer I should have been paying attention to…but his suit, as he bends and shapes before Sardath we find out that their overseer is none other than Shade the changing man!! WOAH!! He has tuned the M vest to Sardath’s perception to become a large monster. And much to Sardath’s dismay overseer Shade is not a man of science, at one point he studied to be a poet but then the world forced a change upon him as the “sacred laser” was used to drill into his skull and carve out all of the childish parts…leaving a large x scarred across his forehead. And today his service as overseer shade, servitor of meta-zone and the black star way, is to decide what to do with Sardath. The scientist continues to explain that the zeta beam is for communication across dimensions and he thought if he could be helpful they would tell him what happened to his daughter, Alanna. Shade calls to his intelligencer assistant to bring her to them. For most that lead a retrace against them they exile them to the zero-zone, where the knot way out is deeper into the zone of madness in the M-zone which may ultimately hold the truth of reality…but so far anyone who has ventured into the depths have not returned without screaming into their hearts give out.

But then Alanna is brought forward, her fate was not to meet the M-zone…instead the same sacred laser used on shade was used against her as she was forcefully turned to the black star way as a member of the New Rannian Society. Shade then orders her to put her gun against her father’s head. He gives Sardath one last chance to tell them the true purpose of the zeta beam of his ow daughter “negates” him. Sardath calls them utter monsters…and shade orders her to kill her own father as Alanna ultimately feels nothing. Absolutely horrific but I have to say I love the full embrace of shade’s backstory and inclusion here, for the different zones to words like Negated instead of death according to Metan crime code. Shade then brings Alanna with him into the field so they can check out the sets. Wan for themselves. As they fly across the city Shade modifies his suit projections to the people, creating the image of a long monster grabbing across the city as ran is how they are seen…large and terrifying. As they approach Alanna suggests moving in with a small team on case her father left behind any traps, Shade agrees and sends her with two N-agents while he waits outside. The three boar down the door and walk inside without any traps or anyone waiting for them. Alanna steps forward to figure out the zeta beam still actively running and creating a portal near them, she knows her father’s tech better than anyone alive but still doesn’t understand who he is communicating with as beam seems to be feeding back into itself, the other agents recognize it as Metan technology as it is opening a gateway into other zones. Her father must have copied and recreated it from memory. Alanna suggests he was talking to rebel elements in the meta zone, but the other agents correct her as there are no rebel elements there, and she should know better as their society is perfect, everyone has been touched by the sacred laser and know there is nothing to be gained by rebelling so there is no urge to rebel especially as everyone knows what they do with criminals once they are sent to the zero zone.

That’s when it clicks with Alanna, he could have been trying to reach the zero zone to talk to her but he didn’t know she wasn’t there. But suddenly the zeta beam begins to light up as it locks onto a new target and suddenly a woman with red hair and a rockin style pops out. The 2 guards immediately aim their guns at her to stop in the name of the blackstars…she simply stares them down and attacks them, twisting and jumping around as she disarms one to take out the other one…stopping when she gets to Alanna who is not looking to fight. The woman is speaking an alien language to them and Alanna calms her down and keeps her talking so their auto translator can pick up on the words to translate for them. Suddenly they begin to understand each other and the woman asks if she is in the future…Alanna isn’t sure and asks what’s the last thing the mysterious woman remembers. Her name is Emily Hawke, an O.S.S. Agent, who last remembers shooting Baron Blitzkrieg in the face…cool to know he existed in the absolute universe, but this means she popped out from WW2 and is a completely original character!! Ewing…you’ve outdone yourself, this is awesome.

The last thing Emily is prepared to do is surrender, the next moment we see her she is running out of the lab the moment shade notices the giant green lantern passing overhead. But he won’t be there to fight against it as Emily runs forward guns blazing, taking out his other agents, only for shade to shift into a monster to throw her around. She takes a few good hits but then Shade decides to tune the best to her to find out what she sees in him…but instead of shifting into a giant monster he shrinks and shrivels up…shade bit off more than he could chew. Emily suddenly runs over, jumps over him and snaps his neck. The only thing she sees in him is “another weak little fascist.” I love her so much. The overseer is dead all while the black hands are engaging the lantern overhead. But then Emily begins to fade out of existence as she is taken back to the zone of madness…the curse of the zeta beam. But as she is there we start to get a glimpse at the truth of reality…and it looks a lot like the manhunters.

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Absolute Green Lantern (2025-) #13

Al Ewing, Eleonora Carlini (Artist)

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