Tuesday, December 22, 2009

Green Lantern Corps #43 - DC

What a great book. At the end of last issue we saw Kyle get killed in an explosion. He knew that it was gonna blow, but he wanted to take out as many of the Black Lanterns in the process as he could. So he sacrificed himself to give the rest of the Corps some breathing room. Now? Now Natu is trying to save him, and Guy has gone over the edge. Because of his rage for everything that's going on, not to mention losing his best friend . . a Red Lantern ring found Guy, and he accepted it gladly. So while Guy is trying to single handedly take out the Black Lanterns, pretty much everyone else is working by Natu's side to give her the time she needs to try to save Kyle. Even Munk, from the Indigo Tribe is right there to help. There is, after all, a whole bunch of severed Black Rings that are looking for a new host . . and with Kyle being recently deceased, they're attacking like piranhas. She needs all the help she can get to keep them off him. In the end though its a Star Sapphire that saves Kyle's life. She uses her power to share Natu's heart with Kyle, and Kyle's heart with Natu. They're even more connected now than they've ever been. Anyways, the Star Sapphire in on OA because she's brought Kryb to try to reunite him with his children. However, once they arrive they find out that they've already been killed and transformed into Black Lanterns. Although, my question is . . why is this so important? Kryb is all upset, but then the Star Sapphire can't stay to help him because she's called away on a mission of love . .'The heart is being attacked in sector zero. Death looks to extinguish eternal love.' Of course they're talking about Kyle and Natu. So then in all of his anger and rage Guy comes across Kryb and starts beating the crap out of him. Is he going to unwittingly turn Kryb into a Black Lantern? Maybe once Kryb does, because of the connection with the 'babies', the love for them will over power the Black Ring's influence. I don't know. I'm just guessing. But there has to be something important to the whole Kryb thing. I just don't know what it is. Anyways, after the Star Sapphires intervention Kyle does indeed rejoin the land of the living. But his first priority is to go save his buddy Guy and get that Red Ring off of him. But before they can do so . . Mogo shows up. 'I guess Mogo does socialize after all.' I thought this was a great issue of Green Lantern Corps. The Black Lanterns are still around . . still menacing, but . . at least we don't have to see much of them. Peter J Tomasi did a great job with the story and with handling the characters. And of course Patrick Gleason has made this book his own. I think this title is every bit as strong as the regular Green Lantern book.

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