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This book continues to defy expectations and find new ways to explore the characters' personalities while revealing new surprises. The plot moves forward at a brisk pace and introduces a terrifying threat to not only our heroes but all of humanity. Hands down the best book on shelves each month. Kudos to this team for bringing their A-game every time!

I'm a big fan of Al Ewing, but I still can't stand the artwork, and the story starts way too slowly... There are plenty of intriguing elements, but when you add a protagonist you feel no attachment to, compared to other Absolute titles, Absolute Green Lantern is off to a pretty rough start.

I know it's early, but I must admit, as a lifelong GL fan, it's hard to get as excited about this (and Absolute Flash) when you have comics like Absolute Martian Manhunter in the same line. AMM just pushes everything and is spectacular from the start, whereas GL and Flash seem muted in Absolute form so far. A little derivative too.

One word: incredible.

Hands down the best #1 of the Abolute line. If the philosophy of the Absolute line is to swing for the fences while retaining the spirit of the character, the Absolute Martian Manhunter team just won the World Series.

If this is not a candidate for comic/story/art of the year then I may as well stop reading and travel back in time to Mars. OMG I seldom if ever get blown away by a story but i couldn't find a single word that didn't have a meaning......to the whole team an DC......Please take a bow for that was utter perfection........Jonn

Art= nice

otherwise, Geoff ("only ever read comic books") Johns repackaging his planned Killing Zone for DC...

The Atomic Knight (I mean "Geiger")
G.I. Robot (I mean "Junkyard Joe")
The Immortal Man (I mean "Redcoat")

etc. etc.

Once again an amazing issue, love what Venditti and company are doing here and heck, they even brought back Klein the coroner!!
Anyone who's interested in where this interpretation of Dodds came from check out the excellent Sandman Mystery Theatre.

More please!

Ah, lovely! Waid (And Mora) are elegantly restoring Cap to what makes him special and unique. While the "Shazamily" was a fun diversion for a moment, it was in no way sustainable and the new roles (?) for the family look more interesting, whether they stick or not.
Cap has never seemed more Cap in a loonnnngggg time. Hooray!


Glad Johns is on to other things (turning his Kill Ah, lovely! Waid (And Mora) are elegantly restoring Cap to what makes him special and unique. While the "Shazamily" was a fun diversion for a moment, it was in no way sustainable and the new roles (?) for the family look more interesting, whether they stick or not.
Cap has never seemed more Cap in a loonnnngggg time. Hooray!


Glad Johns is on to other things (turning his Kill more

Art is fabulous. Writing, eh. Robert Venditti is massaging the Sandman character to fit his plot, not his plot to fit the Sandman character. To those who love the Sandman Wesley Dodds, the overall story concept is interesting, but massaging the Sandman character to make the plot fit is jarring. The idea about using sleep gas to put masses of foreign military troops is ludicrous. It just is, and no Art is fabulous. Writing, eh. Robert Venditti is massaging the Sandman character to fit his plot, not his plot to fit the Sandman character. To those who love the Sandman Wesley Dodds, the overall story concept is interesting, but massaging the Sandman character to make the plot fit is jarring. The idea about using sleep gas to put masses of foreign military troops is ludicrous. It just is, and no more

This is a fantastic book. Even if you've never read a single story of the Golden Age Sandman, you would want to read more about this character after reading this one. Robert Venditti knows these Golden Age heroes as well as anyone in the business as his previous Hawkman series will attest. I've been turned off by Riley Rossmo's art in the past. Its weirdness was just not my cup of tea. Here though This is a fantastic book. Even if you've never read a single story of the Golden Age Sandman, you would want to read more about this character after reading this one. Robert Venditti knows these Golden Age heroes as well as anyone in the business as his previous Hawkman series will attest. I've been turned off by Riley Rossmo's art in the past. Its weirdness was just not my cup of tea. Here though more

For God's sake will writers of DC stop making new earth lanterns and new lantern corps?

I can give Tom king a lot of flak, I think a lot of his books rely on hitting you over the head with faux-gravitas, kind of like being a Neil Gaiman but without the depth or talent.
while feeling like he overstayed his welcome on Mister Miracle, was dealing with his own issues in Strange Adventures, and Human Target wasn't as good as Milligan's retool of him but still a decent read. - I was r I can give Tom king a lot of flak, I think a lot of his books rely on hitting you over the head with faux-gravitas, kind of like being a Neil Gaiman but without the depth or talent.
while feeling like he overstayed his welcome on Mister Miracle, was dealing with his own issues in Strange Adventures, and Human Target wasn't as good as Milligan's retool of him but still a decent read. - I was r more

Man, ever since JLU turned John Stewart from a radical architect with a social conscience to a tough-as-nails marine, his character has been pretty one-note and has suffered as a result.
Plus how clichéd is it to have a GL member be a military guy.
At least this writer has said he's going to refocus on the architect part, but there's a lot of character salvaging to do here. Not there y Man, ever since JLU turned John Stewart from a radical architect with a social conscience to a tough-as-nails marine, his character has been pretty one-note and has suffered as a result.
Plus how clichéd is it to have a GL member be a military guy.
At least this writer has said he's going to refocus on the architect part, but there's a lot of character salvaging to do here. Not there y more

Pretentious beyond anything reasonable. King swings for the fences and generates a big whiff of hot air.

Ah yes, GI Robot...I mean, "Junkyard Joe"...

Geoff Johns' move to tweak DC properties and try to make them his own continues in the Geiger/Atomic Knights tradition...

"Reading a Geoff Johns comic is like reading a book by a writer who's never read a non-superhero book in his life."

Nice looking, but this is just sad.

Agree that Hal is written a little too cocky here, and wish Adams wouldn't rush to go back to the Kilowog well and bring him back in his more modern "tough guy" characterization rather than the pacifist, communist-sympathizing medical engineer he was originally meant to be (back in his first appearance in GLC #201).

But the free spirit of Hal is written very well and I look forward to Agree that Hal is written a little too cocky here, and wish Adams wouldn't rush to go back to the Kilowog well and bring him back in his more modern "tough guy" characterization rather than the pacifist, communist-sympathizing medical engineer he was originally meant to be (back in his first appearance in GLC #201).

But the free spirit of Hal is written very well and I look forward to more

A series with no originality at all. All plots are dull. All the things Geoff Thorne does to John Stewart happened before on other lanterns. He is just trying to steal Hal/Kyle's achievements and thinks that would make John Stewart a great character instead of a pathetic copycat. And just thinking about Thorne really think dragging Jack Kirby into this issue can make his poor book work.

Glad this is over with. How far the Green Lantern franchise has fallen.

wow, don't know what to say about this one. well, I do. Felt like a 90s comic in the worst way. I give John's new status by the end of the issue, a year or two at most before it's forgotten and retconned.
The art looked more cartoony in this one too -

hoping for better things when the main GL title comes back at some point!