Green Lantern Corps #30 - DC

I love the work that Peter J Tomasi is putting into this title. It was already a good book when this title was brought back. But, I think, since Peter's arrival as the new scribe, the quality and intensity of these stories has multiplied. I was talking about Geoff Johns in my last blog. Geoff's strong-point, I think, is his characterization. I don't feel Peter is as strong in this department, however . . . the complexity and nuances of his stories are incredible. I talked about Geoff's stories being multi-faceted, but I think Peter takes that approach to the extreme. But it's very smooth. As were going through this story were bouncing between the Sinestro, Kryb, stealing the babies of the Lanterns that he's killed, and the story-line about the Guardians going to Zamaron to ask them to stop spreading love. However, when reading it . . . really, it's seamless. And it both parts of the story there's little nuances to each character that are going to impact the story . . or create a new story-line as an off-shoot. Eventually, this story winds up with the Guardians returning to OA, and with their recent excursion they've decided to add another edict to the Book of OA. Their new law states . . "Physical relationships and love between Green Lanterns is to be forbidden within the Corps." This is going to have a far reaching affect on a lot of it's members. The way I kind of see this story going is that all of the facets of this new spectrum of power are going to be diminished until they can either work together, or . . integrate in to one. I mean, think about it . . to say that a member of the Green Lantern Corps doesn't feel love . . the purple spectrum . . or fear . . the yellow spectrum . . or rage . . the red spectrum . . would be insane considering that all of it's members are sentient beings. It's an innate part of the being . . their existence. To extinguish any of their base emotions would be the equivalent of cutting off one of their limbs . . or a piece of their soul. Anyways, this all shows the complexity of Peter's writing . . that all of these thoughts or paradigms are expressed through his scripts. I think it's fantastic. By the way, if I haven't mentioned it yet, I also think that Patrick Gleason is perfect on this series. He has brought a fantastic look and feel to this book. For the nature of this series, and the nature of it's characters . . he is absolutely the perfect fit. I really enjoy this title.