The Green Lantern Annual #1

The Green Lantern (Single Issues)

by Grant Morrison, Guillem March (Cover Art), Alex Sinclair (Cover Art)

A Green Lantern tradition is reborn when the annual Jordan family reunion takes a turn for the bizarre, leaving Hal and his nearest and dearest on the front line of a terrifying invasion from an impossible reality that’s closer than you think!

 There’s only one way for intergalactic lawman Hal “Green Lantern” Jordan to prevent the ultra-crime of the millennium—but what will be the outcome when Green Lantern takes on a young superhero sidekick? And who will it be? Also featuring an incredible guest appearance by the strangest Lantern of all—you must not miss THE GREEN LANTERN ANNUAL!

Genres: Comics, Dc Comics

41 pages, Kindle Edition

Published July 31, 2019

About the author

Grant Morrison has been working with DC Comics for twenty five years, after beginning their American comics career with acclaimed runs on ANIMAL MAN and DOOM PATROL. Since then they have written such best-selling series as JLA, BATMAN and New X-Men, as well as such creator-owned works as THE INVISIBLES, SEAGUY, THE FILTH, WE3 and JOE THE BARBARIAN. In addition to expanding the DC Universe through titles ranging from the Eisner Award-winning SEVEN SOLDIERS and ALL-STAR SUPERMAN to the reality-shattering epic of FINAL CRISIS, they have also reinvented the worlds of the Dark Knight Detective in BATMAN AND ROBIN and BATMAN, INCORPORATED and the Man of Steel in The New 52 ACTION COMICS.

In their secret identity, Morrison is a "counterculture" spokesperson, a musician, an award-winning playwright and a chaos magician. They are also the author of the New York Times bestseller Supergods, a groundbreaking psycho-historic mapping of the superhero as a cultural organism. They divide their time between their homes in Los Angeles and Scotland.

Reviews

[Mizuki · Rating 5 out of 5]

"Who bought this guy?"

"Who do you think?"

"Who else spends his time hanging out with creepy aliens?"

My goodness, who would have guessed family's dinner is so difficult to live through?

I think the highlight of this short story is to see Hal's nephews and niece trying to help a cute looking 'radio' alien and the 'trial by fire' within the Jordan Family, a.k.a their family's dinner. XD

and allow me to pimp my Christmas drawing here:

[Al · Rating 3 out of 5]

I have been reading Morrison's Green Lantern and not sure what others think. For me, it is exactly what I hoped for.

That said, I don't have a particular preconception of the title, so I might be more open-minded than most. For me, it hits a nice balance of Morrisonesque weirdness without being some obscure unreadable mess.

The things that have worked well for the ongoing monthly are all here in the Annual. The best thing is the clever Morrisonisms (knowing nod to conventional tropes, snappy dialogue by characters too clever by half, lines that make you smirk). The plot is action driven- simple, Blockbuster movie style action. Art is well within the normal Green Lantern/DC universe, but pretty clean.

The annual is a stand-alone issue that lays outside of any current storylines. I have no problems with the Annual. It's main problem is it's a bit of a throwaway- in short, the monthly is better. Not bad, by any means, but maybe not the kind of memorable story that an annual might warrant.

There's enough moments here, that, this is required reading for DC fans. More casual comic readers and budget conscious or time-constrained readers should hit up the Morrison Green Lantern collections which should come along soon.

[Lucas Savio · Rating 3 out of 5]

Continuo n entendo nada e parte disso é pq n comheço muito a family jordan já que comecei a ler lanterna pela fase renascimento

[Murphy C · Rating 3 out of 5]

A fun story poorly told, though, with bad writing, often nonsensical dialogue, and lazy, sloppy artwork.

[Lillian Francis · Rating 4 out of 5]

Fun stand-alone story, with the Jordan family life doing much of the work. Artwork was great, although I missed Liam Sharp's visuals.

[Roland Baldwin · Rating 3 out of 5]

Well it’s not the normal amount of weird. It’s bizarre to the nth degree. A family gathering goes bonkers as only Morrison can write. It feels like he’s transplanted and invented a family for Hal and done some bonkers story like he would have done for Wally in the 90s. It makes no sense and the absence of Liam Sharp who usually decodes Morrison’s bizarre plottery is unwelcome as the art chores are a huge tonal shift from other instalments in this series. It can be easily skipped. You can’t give 2.5 stars so it gets 3 but just elevated by Hal’s cool nephew

[Robert Hultman · Rating 3 out of 5]

This is an okay annual. Basically a quick sci-fi one-shot. No Liam Sharp for the artwork. Just okay.