Green Lantern: Season Two #5

Liam Sharp's art holds this issue together as Morrison's script isn't quite balanced. Sharp's homage to Jack Kirby fits perfectly and is a joy to behold. The potential in Morrison's story causes it to be more disappointing in what is lacking rather than fulfilling with what is there. It could be so much more. There's still a lot more to come in The Green Lantern: Season Two, but at nearly the halfway point, the series should be heading somewhere with a more obvious purpose. Read Full Review

This series is constantly reinventing itself and I am liking it very much. It is a breath of fresh air for this character as well. Read Full Review

Green Lantern Season Two #5 continues the series' impressive run, delivering a high-action issue illustrated in an excellent Kirby-influenced style. Read Full Review

There are a lot of comic creators who love the bizarre, but I think few of them are as good at the craft as Morrison, and he has the perfect partner in crime here. It's the most bizarre book in DC's main line at the moment, but one hell of a ride. Read Full Review

This ain't your daddy's Green Lantern. But the crazed villain Hyperman and the Silver Age art will lead you to believe that this is the next best thing. Read Full Review

The Green Lantern: Season Two #5 feels much more like a straightforward superhero adventure than some of the heavy mental lifting that characterizes Morrison's writing. I enjoyed seeing Hal Jordan use his wits to overcome his powerful adversaries and given that they Hyperfamily are analogs for Superman this issue really showcases why Hal is just as much of a powerhouse as the big blue boy scout. The fun script is given fantastic visual support by Liam Sharp, who along with the rest of the art team creates a beautiful love letter to Kirby and Steranko. Read Full Review

The fun script is given fantastic visual support by Liam Sharp, who along with the rest of the art team creates a beautiful love letter to Kirby and Steranko. Read Full Review

At times this series can lean too far into its eccentricities, but this issue found a compelling balance, and here' hoping that doesn't change. Read Full Review

The craziness continues, but in a much more reasonable and understandable way. Morrison and his team present a straight forward story that is a lot of fun to read and view. Read Full Review

With The Green Lantern: Season Two #5, Grant Morrison finally gets the overall plot moving forward, but there is still some work needed to decipher it.  Liam Sharp's art is excellent, but the changing art styles and the loose narrative make everything feel like a wacky experiment instead of an important book.  This is the only Green Lantern book on the shelf nowadays, and sometimes I'm starting to think Morrison and Sharp are taking advantage of that. Read Full Review

Green Lantern Season Two has largely felt like a slog and this was another issue that suggests its not going to get much better. Read Full Review

REYNARD

Jul 07, 2020

Best book DC is putting out right now. Much needed refresh opposed to the constant universe ending eventgasm spewed from the Depressoverse. I love the experimental art styles Sharp has been alternating between this season. Him and Morrison are really the last bastion of true artistic ingenuity and character driven storytelling at DC. Great Silver Age cuts, awesome fights, and tight dialogue that maintains the gripping flow of this series. PREPARE FOR THE ULTRAWAR! THE MULTI-CRISIS IS NEAR!

Darrow

Jul 11, 2020

Its's not perfect but it's good.

Br'er Lapin AKA 20-Ish Ceiln

Aug 07, 2020

I thought this was the best issue of Season 2 so far. The Jack Kirby inspired look was kind of random, I mean until the bird people showed up.

Psycamorean

Jul 11, 2020

I would much rather have a series about Hyperman and Hyperwoman. Or just go watch The Boys again (since the comic sucks) or read Invincible or whatever else is on the laundry list of Supermen with emotional problems. But digressions aside, they're the only part of this issue that I found real entertainment in. As to the larger narrative or Hal's role in the story, I could not care less. The art is... Fine. I see a lot of people praising the style change to something more Silver Age, but I've seen artists do it a lot better. I think Liam Sharp's versatility would be more impressive if it wasn't so hit or miss. But not to be too harsh, this is an improvement over the last issue, thank goodness. It's just a shame not every issue could be outst anding, or at least at this level of passing. more

Spacey Medicine

Jul 12, 2020

Reading this kind of felt like being hit by a truck that was carrying nothing but silver age comics, and then when the paramedics got to me they just started whispering random dialogue from the shredded comics into my ears.