Green Lantern: New Guardians #23 Review

The events of Green Lantern: New Guardians #23 certainly got a rise out of me, but not for all the right reasons. Relic launches an assault on the new Blue Lantern homeworld, and as huge decisions are made in a short period of time and the stakes rise exponentially with each flip of the page, I couldn’t help but think, as Ron Burgundy would put it, that escalated quickly.

This scenario feels all too similar to when the Reach invaded the Blue Lantern planet during issues #9 and #10 of this same series. With new creative teams, new ideas are also expected, and even though writer Justin Jordan plays the attack differently here, one can’t help but wonder why he didn’t choose to go a completely different route that couldn’t be compared to anything that came before.

As far as the actual story goes, the dialogue is straightforward and the character work is light, but it makes up for it in spectacle. You’ll see Relic’s ever-morphing ship, energy-sucking ants, and some great new Blue Lantern members -- gotta love that giraffe! It’s all brought to life by Brad Walker’s spot-on pencils that make all the craziness a helluva lotta fun. The way Walker uses angled panels and allows characters to break the borders of those panels gives the book an excellent flow that lets your eye smoothly glide from moment to moment.

Taking a step back and looking at all of the Green Lantern books, this one ties in nicely to what we’ve seen in Green Lantern Corps. In that regard, this is an exciting chapter in the larger Green Lantern story, and it succeeds in making Lights Out an event worth getting pumped for.

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