Green Lantern #11

Both Hal and Carol can feel a bit stiff in many stories, and it's great to see them in this offbeat, vulnerable tale that makes them feel very human. Read Full Review

Green Lantern #11 delivers everything fans have come to expect since the start of this new title. The creative team gets that even an issue with a major reveal and some serious events can still be fun. There's no better word to describe this book. Read Full Review

Personal and planetary struggles happen as Jeremy Adams, Xermanico, Amancay Nahuelpan, and Kevin Maguire give us Lantern drama. The Resistance Corps plays their big card against the United Planets, but was the gambit worth it? Carol is torn between her heart and mind, while Guy Gardner deals with vengeful yet dense bounties as he protects Lobo. The drama and laughs rise as the Emotional Spectrum mystery deepens, making this a great installment of Green Lantern. Read Full Review

Green Lantern #11 feels like the issue that this series has been building towards from the get go. Everything that the creative team has been doing up to now has positioned this series to where it is now, with a feeling that each plot is coming to a crescendo at the same time. What a great time to be a lantern fan! Nine out of ten lanterns. Read Full Review

Green Lantern once again delivers across the board, and things only seem to be getting better from here. Read Full Review

Green Lantern #11 is one of those comic books that you are just along for the ride for. The surprises won't blow your mind but what they do is maximize what the moments with plot twists happen they are impactful. Read Full Review

Xermanico and Nauelpan deliver fantastic art throughout the issue. Both parts of the story are beautifully detailed and filled with great visual moments and emotion. Read Full Review

Green Lantern #11 takes a turn into the interior of Carol's struggle. The creative team does an exceptional job adding this layer to the storytelling by developing this subplot further setting it up for the next big part of this story. Jeremy Adams continues to be the best writer at DC Comics these days understanding the balance of action-adventure and character. Read Full Review

Green Lantern #11 is another strong entry in the series when Hal and his rebel group of Lanterns expose the U.P., and Carol Ferris makes an impulsive move. Adams excels at telling stories that correct and improve on past mistakes from previous writers, so this does well to stand on its own and set the stage for potentially cool developments in the future. Read Full Review

Apawn

May 14, 2024

SPOILED REVIEW. We find Lord Premier Thaaros of the United Planets making an offer to the Star Sapphires on Zamaron. An offer so lovely that they simply couldn’t possibly refuse. They refused. In response, Thaaros orders the purple lantern love battery to be destroyed. And with a ‘Krakooooooom!’, they’ve all lost that loving feeling now that it’s gone. Powerless and defenseless, the Zamarons are assaulted by Lanterns' serving the menacing pink Premier Thaaros. Over on Earth in Coast City, Carol Ferris comes home to her fiancé Nate Broome, who clearly has taken the bad news concerning the contract negotiations at work falling through pretty hard, as she finds him holding two full wine glasses. After the day she had, Carol de cides that now is the perfect time to make an offer that he simply couldn’t possibly refuse. She proposes, “I think we should get married… today.” Nate decides that's a great idea and heads off to pack for Vegas, baby. At the Resistance Corps Base on Planet Oa, Hal and the gang are discussing what to do next. Their captive feathered United Planets lantern offers to tell the United Planets Council all the shady details of what Thaaros has been up to lately. It’s settled, “All right, Lanterns. Let’s make some noise.” However, Kyle has decided to sit this one out, while Salaak keeps an eye on him. Back with the love birds as they make their way to Sin City via Interstate 15, Carol is reminded of the last time she paid a visit. She thinks of young Hal being lectured by the school principal Cunningham about how the real world works, “You can keep doing it your way and end up broke and alone. Or you can play ball and have a really fulfilling life.” Hal chooses the former and steals the principal's bright red Pontiac Fiero for a joy ride. He pulls up beside Carol while she is walking home from school and offers to take her to Vegas for some underage gambling. Carol tells Hal, “We can’t go to Vegas!” as they both take off for Vegas. Now at the Great Hall on Oa, the current rebel and former Green Lanterns’ crew, led by Hal Jordan, arrive at the closed United Planets committee chamber. They knock after barging in. Hal accuses the Lord of shenanigans, stating, “Thaaros has directed several Lanterns to destroy central power batteries throughout the universe.” Unfortunatelly for the Green Lanterns', Lord Thaaros reveals that all of the council members were shape-shifting Durlans. It was a trap to lure the pitiful resistance fighters into the open. Back then, young Carol and Hal are discovered playing slots by casino house security. After being busted, we see the Principal's car has been returned with hardly a scratch. Hal reveals to Carol, as a consequence of his constant delinquency, that he’s being sent to boarding school. Back now, Carol and Nate have arrived at the Chapel of Solitude where the betrothed will soon be conferred and lawfully wed by the chaplain of the Church of Krypton, dressed as Superman. “Superman" asks Nate, “Do you promise to treat her with truth and justice, and work toward a better tomorrow together?” Nate responds, “I do.” “Superman” asks Carol, “Do you promise to be stronger than a locomotive, to leap over tall problems together as one to make this marriage a marriage of steel?” Carol responds, “I do.” But before the official pronouncement is made, a lovely purple ring interrupts the ceremony. To be continued. Over on Planet Um, during a detour back to Oa. Testy Green Lantern Guy Gardner and his captive intergalactic bounty hunter “Lobo” hide from dolphins. “Lobo” helps Guy operate the Interspace Transmitter so he can report in to HQ. However, “Lobo” reveals that he directed the link to the local bounty center on Garlan 12. Just in time to see that quite a few bounty hunters have arrived at their location. All looking for Lobo. Before a fight breaks out, Brainiac transports Guy and “Lobo” away. To be continued. In this issue, we transition from an exploding battery of love to Carol and Nate’s wedding being interrupted by a ring powered by love, with Lord Premier Thaaros and his shape-shifting brethren about to extinguish any hope Hal brought to the rebellion, in between. Well told by Jeremy Adams and absolutely brilliant artistry from Xermánico and Amancay Nahuelpan. Will let Nate sum it all up, “Wow. This is exciting.” more

ResearchReader

Jun 12, 2024

This was really fun and we had a lot going on. I apprecaite Carol trying to move on and form her life independent of Hal even if that is proving very challenging. Also the childhood flash backs were great. Hal really was an A-hole as a kid. Like not very likeable but seemed to jive with Carol. The big bad reveal of 'ok cool you did your thing and it did nothing' was pretty great. Good guys got duped, which is so rare nowadays. It wasnt even due to stupidity, it was just good old out planning and having a lot more control than the Green Lanterns throught (they dont have the best strategists to be honest). I kind of enjoyed the back up this time. Like either its not Lobo and that is funny, or it is Lobo and he is really sticking to his bit which is funny in its own right. At least this time it didnt feel like it wasnt worth the price. The extra buck felt ok. more

BatSledge

May 20, 2024

Continues to get better and better as Adams’ overarching United Planets plot is revealed. The backup story continues to be fun as well.

Screaming Enigma

Jul 23, 2024

For whatever reason, I really liked Carol’s side of the story. Hal’s side was good also, though, and even the backup with Guy was a step-up from the last issue.

daspidaboy

May 14, 2024

this was a much stronger issue, now that we know that the bad guy has been destroying Central Power Batteries so that the United Planet can be in full control of the Emotional Spectrum. The only cons were the tie-ins, but overall I liked this run so far.