There's a lot of stuff going on this issue, but it's in bits and pieces. Everything that's happening in this issue is all connected to the mini-series, and next issues final chapter. So, since I don't want to miss anything, I'm going to handle this post a little differently and just list everything that's going on.1) Nekron is making his final stand in Coast City. The New Guardians have taken a stand against him, with their deputies, and the Guardians, but . . it doesn't seem to be having much affect.
2) The Black Hand show up and he's trying to take out the ring-bearers all by himself. He attacks Atrocitus because of when he tried to end this earlier. Remember? It happened during issues #29 thru #35 . . the Secret Origin story-line.
3) During the Black Hands attack, the Yellow Ring powered Scarecrow attack the Black Hand. I don't know how much affect he had on him, but he impales him with his pitch fork. Anyways, Luthor see this and the Avarice of the Orange Ring catches up to him. He decides that he has to have the Scarecrow's ring, so . . he takes it. And then he goes after Mera's.
4) Up in space, John Stewart faces the challenge of billions and billions of Black Lanterns converging on Earth from all over the Universe. That is until everybody teleports in from OA. Remember, they gathered all the various spectrums there and then came to Earth to protect it. So they're out there fighting all these Black Lanterns.
5) Dove shows up and her powers alone blink many of the Black Lanterns out of existence. She's fighting alongside the Titans and the JLA. And it's during their fight that they realize there's someone stuck inside the Black Power Battery.
6) Nekron kills one of the Guardians. He then gives him to the Black Hand, and as he's pulling his organs out we see that their comprised of all the various colors of the spectrum. And through this he makes contact.
7) The biggest secret of this issue . . 'The Entity! The living light bestowed upon this universe that triggered existence itself. The Guardians may be the oldest living beings, but lief did not begin on our world. Life began on Earth. We buried this fact to keep the Entity protected.' It's a being of White light, much as Parallax and Ion are a being of Yellow and Green.
8) Sinestro seems to be the most affected by this discovery. 'As you buried Parallax in the central power battery? As you buried the massacre of sector 666? Abin Sur . . when he was dying he knew all of this, didn't he? That's why he came to this wretched world. You let my friend die with everyone, with me, thinking him mad. You destroyed Abin Sur to protect your lies! You let the universe believe life originated on your homeworld to justify your authority. Now I will justify mine!'
9) Hal figures out that the Entity needs a 'pilot' in order to fight back, much in the way Parallax needed him. He decides to take control, but . . Sinestro cuts him off. He's decided that if anyone will get this power it will be him. And he will show the Universe . . 'I am the greatest Lantern of them ALL!!'
So . . as you can see . . this issue was comprised of a lot of connections to other books and chapters. And, if I have a complaint about this issue . . that would be it. It all seemed kind of hodge-podged together. I understand the reason for that . . this is the anchor that the rest of the stories spin off of . . at least until next issue. But . . it was just a little hard to follow the first time through. However, having said that . . I still believe that Geoff Johns is a genius. I mean, look at how all of this is going back to the very beginning of his run on this book. Plus, it pretty much ties up everything we've learned, or thought we knew about the Guardians or the Lantern Corps since the very creation of Hal's character. This story goes all the way back to Abin Sur, plus . . it's connected much farther back than that with the Guardians. I can't wait to see how this all comes out next issue. I think Geoff still has some surprises in store for us. We haven't learned everything, yet. Also, Ivan Reis turns in another fantastic art job. My hat's off to him. I think he's one of the best out there.
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