Green Lantern #42

I don’t want to be ungrateful.  Geoff Johns gives me my monthly fix of sci fi insanity, and I always love it.  But I have two questions, and the answers scare me a little.

First, are we ever actually going to get on with Blackest Night?  This thing has been teased since the end of the Sinestro Corps war almost two years ago.  I know it’s prophecy (I will hold forth later on why I hate prophecies in stories, and why there is a slight exception for Johns’ Lantern stories). I know there’s a lot to set up.  But come ON, already.  We finally get an in-story glimpse of the black, and it’s welcome.  I just hope we can get this all going now.

Second, is the course of Blackest Night going to end up making Jordan look like Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat?  Or maybe more like the Lucky Charms guy, with all the green clovers and blue diamonds and orange constructs.  Can purple horseshoes be far behind?

That aside, we get more awesomeness in this book than you can shake a stick at.  Some payoff from previous stories, some humor, a pretty serious plot twist, and a lot of punching of orange things.

minor questions:

How can anything be charged to 7839%?  If all those constructs were the result of projecting power out of the battery, and then all that goes back in, wouldn’t it just end up back at 100%?  Has Larfleeze stumbled on perpetual motion?

Another procedural question:  with all these corps popping up all over the place, I wonder if there’s some kind of open source Battery-and-ring management platform that they’re utilizing.  It can’t be easy to manage rings for thousands of sectors.  The Guardians have had millenia.  The others had to get off the ground in a matter of months.  Maybe there are ringslinging consultants floating throughout the galaxy…

I don’t want to be ungrateful.  Geoff Johns gives me my monthly fix of sci fi insanity, and I always love it.  But I have two questions, and the answers scare me a little.

First, are we ever actually going to get on with Blackest Night?  This thing has been teased since the end of the Sinestro Corps war almost two years ago.  I know it’s prophecy (I will hold forth later on why I hate prophecies in stories, and why there is a slight exception for Johns’ Lantern stories). I know there’s a lot to set up.  But come ON, already.  We finally get an in-story glimpse of the black, and it’s welcome.  I just hope we can get this all going now.

Second, is the course of Blackest Night going to end up making Jordan look like Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat?  Or maybe more like the Lucky Charms guy, with all the green clovers and blue diamonds and orange constructs.  Can purple horseshoes be far behind?

That aside, we get more awesomeness in this book than you can shake a stick at.  Some payoff from previous stories, some humor, a pretty serious plot twist, and a lot of punching of orange things.

One minor nitpick: How can anything be charged to 7839%?  If all those constructs were the result of projecting power out of the battery, and then all that goes back in, wouldn’t it just end up back at 100%?  Has Larfleeze stumbled on perpetual motion?

And a bonus procedural question:  with all these corps popping up all over the place, I wonder if there’s some kind of open source battery-and-ring management platform that they’re utilizing.  It can’t be easy to manage rings for thousands of sectors.  The Guardians have had millenia.  The others had to get off the ground in a matter of months.  Maybe there are ringslinging consultants floating throughout the galaxy…

~ by The Comics Dad on June 28, 2009.