Green Lantern #7

The main plot is excellent, but there are also some excellent hints at larger plotsincluding what Guy Gardner is going to be up to now. Adams' run is picking up steam just the way his Flash run did. Read Full Review

Green Lantern by Jeremy Adams and company continues to be an excellent series with answers and exciting new questions that want to be explored. With this new issue, we see the fall of a favorite Lantern as we remember how dedicated these heroes are. If you haven't put this series on your pull list, get on it, as this issue is a great starting point. Read Full Review

Green Lantern jumps into the past in issue #7 and answers a host of major questions in the process. Read Full Review

Green Lantern #7 is another great entry in the Jeremy Adams run of the book and this issue does a great job of bridging the narrative from the previous one to where we are today. The true agenda of the United Planets still remains to be reveled, but the slow burn has been a great ride so far. Nine out of ten lanterns. Read Full Review

Nahuelpan delivers some beautifully detailed and visually immersive art throughout the issue. The visual style lends itself perfectly to the otherworldly action and adventure of Green Lantern. Read Full Review

As a Green Lantern story, there is a good combination of drama and action although the writing could have benefited from less is more in the dialogue department. Still, its an enjoyable read and sets up an interesting arc going forward. Read Full Review

Green Lantern #7 is an issue-long flashback answering the question of Kilowog's death. For his part, Adams gives readers a thorough depiction of events, showing how Kilowog gave his life doing his duty, even if his death feels meaningless. Whether or not Kilowog is truly dead remains to be seen. Read Full Review

Green Lantern #7 missed the mark in terms of its artistic nature. The dull colors and disproportionate characters looked different in a variety of panels. The illustrations lacked detail and the realism this comic once had that frankly this reviewer loved. The story itself wasnt bad but it was slow-moving and didnt have the punch fans are used to with this series. Plus, the normal, subtle humor and organic plot development that Adams infuses into his stories wasnt present this month either. This very well could be the worst issue in the run so far. Read Full Review

GreenWing

Jan 09, 2024

I'm enjoying this run. It's fresh but grounded in tradition. All of the main characters are spot-on. The art is spectacular. I would grade it a 10 but for the backup story. Good to know this is spinning off as a new title because I could not have less interest in a book aimed at 10-year-olds. I would have preferred another 8 pages of the main story. I hope future issues don't include back-up stories a la Tales of the Green Lantern Corps. However, with the team splitting off in different directions, it would appear inevitable. As long as the tone and quality of the main story are maintained, it will be OK with me.

Maud Benjamin

Jan 10, 2024

I really love the interaction between Hal and Sinestro in this issue. Also the backup story is shit. Just stop it, Tomasi. Nobody likes your cheap copy of supersons.

derbycomics

Jan 10, 2024

This issue offered quite the curveball in the best way possible. Jeremy Adams rips back the curtain on so much of the story that happened before his Green Lantern #1 occurs, without making it feel like he was trying to pull wool over the reader’s eyes. It was a really well crafted and timed unveiling of what Hal’s been through and the trauma he still deals with because of it. Adams also fills gives context to explain Sinistro’s present-day motives. I really enjoyed all these new details which gives us a brand new perspective on the story Adams is telling. I wouldn’t be shocked if we got a few more twists and turns along the way. Amancay Nahuelpan steps in for Xermánico on art duties on this issue and does a standup job, especially giving us a variety of character designs when the United Planets calls the Lantern Corps together to reassign their responsibilities. I understand wanting a different artistic approach to visualize past events, but Xermánico’s style has become so symbiotic to Adams’ story that it felt like I was reading a different book and it took away from the issue’s full impact. more

BatSledge

Jan 10, 2024

Superb issue despite a good, not great, fill-in artist. Adams pays off much of the mystery he set up in the first 6 issues with a fantastic story featuring our favorite corps legends, while teasing several new mysteries at the same time! It’s so nice to have the GL franchise back on track this year, and it reminds me of the peak era 15 years ago when Johns was on fire.

LeonReadsNRates

Jan 10, 2024

After the amazing and off the wall issue that was #6, this was a good slower pace that set up the conflict with Sinestro and leads into questions why he may be around Earth in the present. Let's get the fan service out of the way; it's very cool to see all of Earth's Green Lanterns in a line up, even if most of them didn't get anything to say (but Guy got the best page, that's what counts). Not to go into spoilers but a very integral plot point is revealed regarding Kilowag's apparent d**** and a negotiation talk goes south after a group of Yellow(?) Lanterns crash the meeting in what can only be called an assassination attempt on the new leader of Oa. It's evident that Jeremy Adams has extensive understanding of the characters that are under his pen and I encourage any passing DC/comic fan to pick up this series. It's also illustrated exceptionally well. Amancay Nahuelpan's talents as a young, up and coming artist is better served here than on the last book he was on (Hawkgirl) and if he's the replacement for Xermanico, I'd be fine with that (though I like Xermanico a little more). Like a lot of artists who's style of penciling action pages, he has a more manga-esque appearance to them, though the narration pages are illustrated well, they are clinically uninteresting. As with most of DC's current books; there's a back up story related to an upcoming title, Sinister Sons. I usually skip the back ups, so I'm not letting that effect the score for this book, although I am likely to pick up that book as well (since it's written by Peter Tomasi). Recommended! more

ResearchReader

Jan 12, 2024

Another solid issue by Jeremy. Art was a step down but still quite good. So overall no complaints there. Good action, GL actually policing was nice. Get to see a bit of the mystery box opened and the 'death' of ol'Kil. Poor guy. I dont think he is dead though with all the oddities of the emotional spectrum. Adams is keeping the cards close to his chest with what is really going on, the underlying big issue that keeps getting hinted at but never revealed. I love how each issue has its own plot moving forward with Jordan but we have a much larger overlying plot that we get drip fed. This feels like stories of old, where multiple lines of plot were going on at once with hints dripped here and there. This feels like this was written in a better age of comics. I love this run so far. The back-up is ok. More action but man that artist is really bad for this book. Lafuente draws kids books and it makes no sense to have a kids book in the back of GL. The tones have been wrong since issue 1 of this backup. Story itself was decent. more

Screaming Enigma

Jan 19, 2024

A strong issue here, possibly the strongest of the series thus far, but it doesn't quite reach the 9/10 mark for me. Nahuelpan's art was solid, but it doesn't quite match up to what we've been getting in the past six issues from Xermánico. Either way, I thought Adams wrote a good, engaging story to give us some context as to what happened between the previous Green Lantern run and this current one. I continue to look forward to what comes next. One other point I want to make is that I'm glad we're done with the current run of backup stories. They've never been bad, but they've also never got me super interested. That said, I am excited that it seems Kyle Rayner will be getting a backup story in the next issue.

fzanca

Jan 11, 2024

This felt more like an issue of Green Lantern than any of the others. I'm friends with Jeremy and I love to support his work, but Hal having all of the powers of every spectrum and producing Kilowag as a living, breathing entity rather than a green construct is weird to me. This felt back to basics. They're cops protecting their bosses. I do like how they replaced the Guardians. I was wondering how that was going to go since the Guardians have been a staple of GL for decades. My Comic Review Channel - https://youtu.be/qmkQnhPWN3E

Mout

Mar 29, 2024

Fuck it, I agree with the United Planets there's already too many heroes at Earth.

Criminology.

Jan 11, 2024

Not a bad issue, but I don't appreciate the narcissism this shows toward Jordan and it feels like that's the driving force here. it feels like he is the only lantern here or more like it's only the earth lanterns that matter and Killowog a bit. The thing with the UP is treated as such a small mundane thing when everything leads me to believe that should not be that. Part of the reason is how nobody really reacts to them, there is not much build-up to their coming and only the earth lanterns communicate with them, as if they are the only lanterns. The United Planets do not give any vibes of authority when again we are led to believe they are. But even any vibe at all, they sound tired tbh. but the arguments they make are really sound. A shake-up in the dynamics, seeing the United Planets' new rule as bigger compared to what we have on earth would have made both sides stronger. But here it goes through the motion, so we get the same stuff in space that we have on Earth, even when both are so different. So some stuff feels weightless and kinda rushed tbh. The argument with Sinestro and the death of a certain character is an example of how just not giving enough and too fast of a payoff. Maybe it's supposed to be that way, but we will see. For now, I like way more when Adams takes his time and does low-stakes, more slice-of-life, earthbound Hal, but being good at only that feels like one trick pony. I feel like I'm too negative, this run has a lot of charm going for it, but this issue has some of it, in the snappy dialogue, but a constant understanding of how Hal feels. But this issue brings the weakness of that approach for me and that's everything is targeted around Hal, everything that happens even in space is serving him and he can be excused of anything, because he is that unique guy, even tho the run and especially does not support that claim. So his action feels even more childish here because, in the previous issues, we got why he acts this way. So the constant self-righteousness in this issue by Jordan and especially the way the story treats it, is a sign of one-dimensionality. The art is good, it has some rufer lines, but it makes for some good comedy in the it's repetition, honestly that art makes some of the moments better with the way it builds them, just the issue is deeper for me. more