[Green Lantern - No Fear]
- Green Lantern Secret Files & Origins 2005 - "Flight" = Beautiful. Darwyn Cooke man, doesn't get better than him. Scheduling a reread of New Frontier once I'm finished with this Infinite Crisis business.
- Green Lantern #1 - "Airborne" = Love it! So I'm assuming this new alien murderer arrived in the yellow vessel above Nevada, and he's searching for an older version of the Manhunter. The color scheme on the jet engine makes it seem like they're using manhunter tech to augment these new planes. The intro to Cowgirl and Shane Sellers was awesome, and I loved Hal's brother as well. Johns does a great job of hooking you into Hal's world, and I'm so excited to see how it flourishes over the course of his run.
- Green Lantern #2 - "No Fear" = Damn bro, RIP to Carlos Pacheco. His art in this brings such a Silver Age quality; a revitalization of the Gil Kane and Carmine Infantino art that brought these heroes to life 60 years ago! Having John pop up is awesome, and the interaction with Jim brings some much-needed introspection to Hal that dismantles any "cardboard-cutout" slander directed towards him. Who is the new Manhunter Grandmaster? Why is this new manhunter trying to destroy its predecessor? How did the military rebuild Abin Sur's ship?
- Green Lantern #3 - "Flight Delay" = The Lost Lanterns! Highlights had to be Jordan and the old Manhunter before detonation and his monologue when he returned to Coast City about fear. I also thought it was so great that they tied this into Engleheart's Millenium, such a weird but fun event! Johns is at home in this title, and I feel so much more passion in this and JSA then I sometimes do Flash. Green Lantern is just so much fun!
- Green Lantern #4 - "Alienated" = Holy final page! Loved this one, a triptych knitting three stellar sequences into the prime example of what a monthly comic should be! We get more context on the Guardians and the rebuilding of the GLC which will be tackled in Recharge, Hal pays a visit to his very own Doctor Psycho, while two unlucky skinny dippers turn into the Shark's midnight snack! Great opener as well with the Grey Alien turned into roadkill, but the best scene in this was Sonar's cameo in Belle Reve. So the aliens that sent the meteor that mutated Hector Hammond also created the Silver Age Shark (Karshon)?
- Green Lantern #5 - "Feeding Frenzy" =Extraterrestrial horrors unbound! Black Hand enters the mix after getting Jaime Lannister'd by Spectre/Hal in Rebirth, but after a gremlin upgrade he's eager to genocide a whole hospital. Battle against the Shark was super dope, and I'm seeing a reoccurring theme of evolution and survival of the fittest across this entire volume, from the Manhunters purging inferior models to space gremlins evolving and experimenting with natives. After using the power of Google Translate, are these gremlins working for Thanagar?
- Green Lantern #6 - "Black Sheep" = Would have loved Van Sciver to have finished this arc, but Bianchi has a certain quality that I appreciate, been a fan ever since he did Shining Knight with Morrison. Love that Johns tied this into the Rann-Thanagar War, but the hinting this early to Blackest Night from Black Hand was surprising as mess. He even made some deep comments about the emotional spectrum that I caught. The flashbacks were tragic as heck, but I'm interested to see how these snippets get put together once we reach Secret Origin. Hal and William are both Black Sheep from their own families! What changes occurred to Hammond as a result of the experimentation?
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