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Title: Green Lantern: The Sinestro Corps War, Vol. 1
ISBN: 1401216501
Author:
Geoff Johns
Dave Gibbons
Ethan Van Sciver
Publicate Date: 2008-02-20
Publish: 2008-02-20
List Price: $24.99
Average Customer Rating: 5.0
Format: Hardcover
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1: Sinestro Corp Wars Vol 1 and 2
In two parts covering different aspects:
1. Quality of the story - Lots of action, lots of great banner artwork of lots of heroes fighting lots of bad guys. If you know the characters you will care and know if so many who die really matter. To me they just seemed like a lot of red shirts.
These grand stories usually fail because they try to cover too much and use every character that ever existed. This series is far from being a failure, but it still left me feeling like something was missing. It does manage to establish several important milestones in the Green Lantern mythos, so in that regard it succeeded. The plot elements are all there, but the execution was uneven. For example, it seems like the power of the rings can be made by anybody since nothing is done to explain how Sinestro creates his new power in the first place. He seems to recruit a lot of villains that are way beyond his league in power yet for some reason listen to him. Not until book two did it seem to matter or start to address any of this.
Some of the newer characters are developed and a lot of plot development is established for the next big event, but this story should have played out over more issues to give it more depth. It really makes a better prequel than a story onto itself with all of the unresolved fates of so many of the villains and premonitions of things to come.
2. Quality of the book - paper was flimsy compared to other hard cover graphic novels available out there. Makes it fit on the bookshelf better by being thinner, but felt cheap. You can tell by reading these two volumes that they are an amalgam of two different series, so there are a few repetitions and inconsistencies (e.g. what happens on one page, happens again several apages later and it is still a new revelation).
Read Volume 2 and you'll be caught up with all of the plot elements and be prepped for the storyline that will follow. As uneven as it was, it still has me looking forward to "Blackest Night".
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2: Buckle up, it's a great ride.
Geoff Johns and the DC team have done it again. I'm a Green Lantern fan from the 60's, so I know Hal Jordan well. It is great to see him and the other Green Lanterns fighting Sinestro, the baddest of the bad and his own corps. I agree with a previous reviewer that the story is so deep and some pages are so richly done that I had to stop and check Wikipedia or one of the GL web sites to get more information. But, don't let that stop you if you've ever read Green Lantern or seen one or more of them in a TV cartoon, and liked what you saw. Trust the old Silver Age fan with matching silver hair, you will not be disappointed. My only caveat is, you most likely will have to come back and purchase volume 2; be sure to budget for that. Enjoy!
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3: What Inifinite Crisis should have been.
Count me as one of those who felt slightly disappointed with how the Infinite Crisis (IC) mini series went. It didn't quite compare to it's 80's predecessor Crisis on Infinite Earths (COIC) in both plot, characters and overall story line.
But out of nowhere you suddenly have the Sinestro Corps War saga. I had read a few issues when it was originally released but decided to just wait for the collections instead. I was not disappointed at all.
The plot was pretty straight forward and the action was non-stop. There are a ton of characters involved. Of course, there are Green Lanterns galore and plenty of villains: Sinestro (of course), Hank Henshaw, Superboy/Superman-Prime and the big baddie from COIC, the Anti-Monitor.
That is why it is too bad that the Sinestro Corps War couldn't have been the sequel to COIC. There are some things in IC that had to occur to bring the Anti-Monitor back to life. Regardless, it was great to see the Anti-Monitor back again.
A can't miss collection for any Green Lantern or COIC fans.
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4: a war of real light !
Welcome to the forbidden chapter of the book of Oa ! One of the most serious stories written by geoff johns and dave gibbons. The war is inminent and inevitable, every space sector are involved. The sinestro corps want to establish a new oder in the galaxy and the GL's are determined to win. The drawing art is the best and the colours are amazing . A big story...builds to an epic climax. Let the war begin !
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5: The Best Event of '07
Geoff Johns is the current king of DC mythology. As he completes the second leg of his Green Lantern trilogy, it's obvious that Johns has learned from his mistakes in INFINITE CRISIS, because this book is the most accessable event to be written in years.
The only GREEN LANTERN book I'd ever read before this was Johns' excellent "Rebirth" arc from a few years ago. This is so much better. I had little knowledge of the Lantern Corps and its history going in, but coming out I felt like I knew everything there was to know. I was never lost, and no one should be when they read this.
Despite the contribution of four different pencilers, the art is good throughout and, like the writing, never confuses the reader. So, Kudos to Van Sciver, Reis, Gleason and Unzeta for a job well done.
The one qualm I have with this package is that this is only the first half of the story. You'll have to buy Volume 2 separately, and DC doesn't appear to have any 13-issue giant edition ("Absolute" or otherwise) on the horizon. Until that time, this is the best way to enjoy 2007's best comic book event.
Highly recommended for longtime readers as well as those just interested in reading a great comic.
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