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More progressive feminism from the franchise that brought us “women in refrigerators.” This book is repeating the already-rote subplot from the last book of having the villain lust after the hero’s love interest. He hasn’t kidnapped her yet... but there’s an hour left.

More progressive feminism from the franchise that brought us “women in refrigerators.” This book is repeating the already-rote subplot from the last book of having the villain lust after the hero’s love interest. He hasn’t kidnapped her yet... but there’s an hour left.

This book feels very... perfunctory? It’s taken a long time to accomplish very little. The last book was confusing and meandering, but it was at least imaginative and had a plot with forward motion. Here, both the hero and villain spend so much tine dragging their feet, their eventual confrontation feels forced.

This book suffers from pacing issues. We spend a lot of time on the origin and not much on the period where he’s active as Green Lantern before skipping to his time in the army. This part, at least, reminds me of the Wonder Woman movie in a good way as we meet the members of Alan’s squad, and we finally get something tying this to the plot of the first book.

Confusingly, this book seems to have nothing to do with Book 1, and so far is mostly a retread of Alan Scott’s origin story. It’s not a bad retelling, but the voice acting is cheesy as ever. Again, not that having one person trying to do ten different voices is necessarily better.