Tuesday, July 18, 2006

Green Lantern #12 - DC

Geoff Johns is really setting DC on fire, and he's continuing it with this series. Fantastic story and fantastic art by Ivan Reis. This issue has Hal going into the Manhunters quadrant of space, to the dismay and direct order not to, by the Guardians. There have been some Green Lanterns disappearing, and Hal wants to get to the bottom of it. He comes across the Manhunters being led by the Cyborg Superman, Hank Henshaw. After a short history lesson, and a severe trouncing, Hank hooks Hal up to a machine to try to draw out all of his bad memories, and turn Hal into a living Manhunter. As soon as Hal learns that it is a Nanite virus, he wills his ring to burn it out of his bloodstream one Nanite at a time. When he becomes coherent he starts hearing the voices of other Lanterns. He find hundreds of them in suspended animation. Lanterns that have been missing for years. Including Arisia. The final splash page has a giant Manhunter with Guy Gardner stuck inside of him. We also learn in this issue that Hal has a bounty on his head. But we don't learn by who yet, but we do see that some nasty bounty hunters are willing to do whatever it takes to get the contract. We also learn that Hal's and John Stewart's little foray into Chinese airspace last issue, is having some consequences. We don't find out what yet, but it looks like it's going to involve the Global Guardians, and Checkmate. Like I said, "Great Issue!!!" And I'll tell you what, nobody draws a fight scene like Ivan Reis. Somebody has seriously underestimated this guys potential. He's awesome. Serious props to Ivan. Can't wait for next issue.

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