Green Lantern Sinestro Corps War
At last it's finished, and goes out with a bang! Three books released on one day: GL finale, GLC epilogue, and Tales of GLC Corp: Ion
From start to finish it's been an exhilarating ride, and I applaud DC Comics for pulling it off. What could have been a revisit of the awful Amazons Attack special was instead treated very well. Sinestro Corps had something for everyone. The awesome setup (Sinestro forging his own ring and own Corps ZOMG!). The villains (Hank Henshaw, bratty-turned-homicidal Emoboy Superman Prime, and of course Sinestro). And for those die-hard fans who know loads of GLC history, SCW included characters seldom seen in years (I had to look most of them up on Wikipedia, too). For those who came by the GL mythos later, it was an excellent crash-course on how expansive the GL community is. I'm squarely in the latter group, and eagerly awaited each new installment as a chance to learn more about the Green Lanterns. It got me so invested that I've started wearing the plastic GL ring I picked up from SDCC everyday. And gushing to strangers (including most of my amused co-workers) how much I love the Green Lanterns. How many comics lately can drum up such excitement?
Whoever came up with the storyline deserves a medal. It's perfect: it settles some old scores and offers potential for the established characters. For instance, SC helped established the purpose of Kyle Rayner. Kyle was my GL, as I starting reading the books when Hal Jordan became Parallax. The drama of turning Jordan into a baddie and trying to supplant him with a 90's west coast male angered many older fans but did not trouble me cos I liked them both. I liked Hal when I read about his character through the eyes of the other GLs, but didn't really care when he became Spectre or when he came back. It was only when Kyle became Ion that I stopped being reading. Ion, the living battery that powers the GLC (like the Energizer bunny?) Giving someone the powers of a god, now that isn't particularly interesting to read (hehe remember Superman Blue?). This dongle of a storyline is kinda satisfied when in Sinestro Corps, we see the Ion thingy palmed off to a new character and Kyle returning as a regular GL. YAY!
I say YAY because now we have four equal Earth GLs to love - if you don't like Kyle and love Hal, there's your pick. If you enjoyed John Stewart from the JL or the JLU, animated series, you'll be glad to see him in rotation again. And if like me, you can't get enough of Guy Gardner and gasped when it looked like he might die in the war,
Aww! How can you not love this sensitive side of Guy? You can bet your sweet green ass I will be spending my money on the GL books from now on :P
One last thing: Hey DC! You win!