4 out of 5
Finally, the War of the Green Lanterns is over! Man, that was a painful event to read, but I guess after half a decade of constant events, you are bound to run into one stinker. That being said, the last issue of the current volume of Green Lantern was actually really good! It managed to pack into it about three major suprises that I was really not expecting at all. That by itself is and indorsement to buy this issue.
Geoff Johns, after being in an exposition heavy slump for the past few months, pulled off a pretty good script in this issue. You are not too bogged down with the heavy expostion of issues past, some action is thrown in as well as some intrigue, and finally some nagging plot threads of this volume are wrapped up, but they still couldn't wrap up them because... well... read the book and find out.
I can never say anything wrong about Doug Mahnke and his pencils. That man is just talented and can put more people on a single panel than I thought was humanly possible! That said, some of the inks were a little off, but when you have fifty people inking an issue, then the color is bound to be a little off some places.
This book has brought back my love for Green Lantern. Too bad it has to end and this is the last issue. I have always enjoyed the kind of goofy and crazy light show, space opera adventures that Green Lantern has brought to the table, and for the most part Geoff Johns has written a great story for the past 5 or so years in this book. Thus I am sad its ending. Wait... What? Green Lantern #1 in the relaunch is going to have the same author, same artist, and not really change from the current continuity it has been building for the past half a decade! Well what the hell is the point of setting it back to number one?!
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