Green Lanterns (2016-) Vol. 1: Rage Planet

I absolutely love the new green lanterns series. Great story and art. Both Green lanterns are pretty new to the corps and are complete opposites giving it a lethal weapon buddy cop style where neither can really stand one another but eventually find some mutual respect. It also teases the future of this series and I'm really excited. A definite pick up for any green lantern fan!

fast delivery good quality book ,but disappointed with the storyline of the comic

This volume collects the first six issues of the post-Rebirth “Green Lanterns” comic, along with the “Rebirth” issue for this title. This comic focuses on the two newest human Green Lanterns, Simon Baz and Jessica Cruz, both of whom are considered to be trainees by Hal Jordan, who, in the Rebirth issue, fuses their lanterns together and tells them to learn to get along as a team before abandoning them to look after Earth while he heads off to look for the missing Green Lantern Corps in his own series.The Rebirth event ( DC Universe Rebirth Deluxe Edition HC ) saw the revelation that a mysterious force has been messing with the DC Universe timeline, and the Flashpoint reset of the universe has begun to break down, allowing lost characters and memories to resurface. This has little effect on the two Green Lanterns however, other than to regress their characters a little so that this opening volume can make something of their overcoming their personality defects and insecurities in order to (re-) establish their characters and abilities. The Red Lanterns also get a bit of a makeover/reset, and will be the main protagonists of this volume.The two main characters can be a bit annoying as they continually go on about their personal shortcomings as we build up to the finale of the book, but, we must remember that this was written as a serial, and that when read in monthly instalments, it probably helped to re-establish the ongoing problems. However, that doesn’t make it less annoying when you read the collected edition, but at least it should be over with when we get to the net volume.The main plot element is the Red Lantern Corps, who have chosen Earth to be their new homeworld, and attempt to infect it with something or other. Simon and Jess have to overcome their personal and inter-personal problems as they struggle to stop the Red Lanterns. There is also a minor plot element involving yet another rogue Guardian who has done something stupid a long time ago and got himself fired from the Guardians. He is probably a lead in to a future big event.The artwork is excellent on this book, and is suitably “big” for a Green Lantern title, despite there being 16 artists listed on the title page. Is that any way to start a brand new series? That is the sort of nonsense that killed so many of the New 52’s opening series – editorial neglect, changes of writers artists and direction, all leading to reader-apathy. This story actually got me through to the end without noticing, fortunately.So, this is an excellent start to a new series, apart from the bits I mentioned above, but we hopefully will be past that in the next volume.

This new Rebirth “Green Lanterns” series is a mystery to me. Even more so now that, thanks to the generosity of DC and Amazon’s kindle unlimited, I’ve been able to test drive book one for free.I’ve been on Team GL since, probably, before you were born. I even like the movie. But even I don’t think the non-Trinity DC B-lister has much more than niche appeal. I mean ... the movie! Geoff Jones’s pre-Flashpoint burst of pure force of will aside, the character really doesn’t have THAT much franchise potential.On the evidence here, the ultra-complicated mythology GJ wrenched out of GL continuity is also kind of a mixed blessing. And how much elasticity is there left in the over-stretched suspension of disbelief that Earth specifically is such an endless fund of ring-worthy candidates in sector 2814 that the Universe needs four? … five? … six? to run concurrently?If we just ignore the terrible mish-mash of rotating artist credits, the writing is also a huge problem.Just objectively, trying to “do the police in different voices” and write two lead characters in the first person at the same time is a setup-to-fail for most journeymen comics writers, and it makes this book a serious trial of patience to read. Not least because the characters are so … meh.They’re both numbingly inevitable and transparent grabs at fresh, contemporary, diversity-driven appeal which long-time GL camp followers know has always worked SO WELL in the past. Even John Stewart has more weight of history than genuine star power behind him.Both new characters are pretty thin beer. Gun totin’ Simon Baz is a lightning rod for modern US issues with Muslim heritage and dark skin, all about the anger and over-compensation. Jessica Cruz is notionally the same for the US Hispanic community but also a fairly sorry example of a man writing a second-hand idea of what cookie cutter romance novels suggest appeals to women, all self-doubt and fear and family.The characters don’t make interesting reading. The writing’s just not up to it. And this album showcases one of the worst writing habits of too many modern (tinsel? tawdry?) age journeymen comics creators, stretching out single-issue stories to album length. In this case the GLs have to deal with a Red Lantern incursion of Earth stretched across six continuous, enthusiasm-sapping episodes. It doesn’t help that this is obviously a scene-setter for a long game plan to try to repeat something along the lines of Blackest Night, yet another editorial over-estimation of the power and appeal of the new GL mythos.It’s all just highly … pfffff.

This has issues 1-6 and rebirth issue and it’s a good start. The main villain is the red lanterns and there Rage infects earth. Simon and Jessica are rookie lanterns who just don’t seem to get on and are made work together by Hal, as he needs to know earth is safe in there hands. Will the survive the red lanterns Rage infection, will Jessica overcome her anxiety ( great touch by the way makes her character very relatable). Will deffo be reading on as want to see what happens next. Give it a go you will probably like it.

Nothing really distinctive. A typical Green Lantern read. Glad it’s read and I can put it to bed! Looking forward to reading further into the Green Lanterns corps.

I've recently started to get into DC and thought this was a great read. I really like Jessica and Simon. I think Jessica dealing with her fear was really cool. Great read, will definitely be picking up later issues