Arts & Culture
On Newsstands Now...Green Lantern #28
Arts and Review Reporter
DC Comics’ “Green Lantern Corps” continues its most recent evolution this month as the organization goes through several more drastic changes. Originally a revamping of the 1940's era purple-cape wearing, mystical super-hero, the Green Lantern brand was re-launched in 1959 by the late editor Julius Schwartz as a uniformed cosmic police force. The Schwartz re-launch revolved around test-pilot-turned-Green Lantern, Hal Jordan of Earth.
As the series became more popular, the Green Lantern mythology expanded to include the Green Lantern’s trademark power ring and its inability to affect anything the color yellow, the blue skinned Green Lantern bosses, the Guardians of the Universe and the existence of thousands of other Green Lanterns patrolling various sectors of the universe, collectively known as the Green Lantern or GL Corps.
The current series features art by Mike McKone (Exiles) and is scripted by famous writer Geoff Johns (Booster Gold). The latest story is the third part of the new “Alpha Lanterns” storyline and follows the trial of Green Lantern Laira for the murder of Sinestro Corps member Amon Sur in the wake of the recent Sinestro Corps War. The courtroom drama unfolds under the supervision of the Guardian and examines the conflict between GL Corps members and Alpha Lantern Bookikka in her role as a cosmic internal affairs agent. Other story highlights include the unveiling of the second of the ten new laws governing the power of the GL Corps, a visit by Jordan to the prison cell of his arch nemesis, renegade Green Lantern Sinestro and the expansion of the all new Red Lantern Corps.
Will Laira by convicted? If so, what will be her sentence? What will be the ramifications of the institution of the Alpha Lanterns and the shocking second new law? Find out this month in Green Lantern 28. Green Lantern is published monthly by DC Comics and can be purchased for $2.99 at comic shops everywhere.