Comic Book Review: Green Lantern Corps #40

Written by Peter J. Tomasi
Art and cover by Patrick Gleason and Rebecca Buchman

Plot: Arisia meets up with her dead family members. Kyle Rayner is bewildered and conflicted with seeing his dead lover, Jade, flying with him in the sky. Kryb, assisted by a Star Sapphire, looks for her children who have mysteriously vanished from their resting place. Clarissi gets into a power tussle with the Alpha Lanterns while Guy Gardner ends up killing an old friend who not too long ago was killed in action.

My Thoughts: I have decided that this particular title is an exceptionally difficult one to write for. There are so many plots going on at once, it takes a good writer who can make each storyline interesting and captivating for the reader. This particular issue is bleeding so rapidly with emotion; it makes me wonder how much worse things can get for the Lantern Corps. Tomasi has to be given such honorable mentions for his ability to handle such a difficult title to write for.

With that being said, I can’t help think that this title is always toggling month to month from being stellar to being very bad. And this issue weighs more towards the bottom of being good and bad. My personal tastes don’t lean much towards stories containing multiple plotlines. I find it confusing and/or too much to handle in a 22 paged book. I understand that the corps is spread out across the universe, but why focus on five plots in so few pages? Take the most important and vital plots for the Blackest Night Story and delve into those more and not waste time on the ones that don’t matter.

Overall, I wasn’t that impressed by this issue. Blackest Night is not doing so well in the pages of Green Lantern Corps thus far. Nothing was truly accomplished here and nothing new was learned either. I feel too much time is being wasted on continually bringing people back from the dead and not enough time is being spent getting to the point of Blackest Night. I sure hope we learn something new soon!

2 out of 5 stars

Next Month: Green Lanten Corps #41

The intense and horrific battle between the Green Lantern Corps and the Black Lanterns on Oa takes a turn for the worse! The Corps realizes that the abominable, ultimate goal of the Black Lanterns is not only to feed off the Corps' emotions, but to consume and decimate the main power battery and destroy Oa forever!