Product Description: The Sinestro Corps has declared war on the Green Lanterns in the smash-hit epic of the summer! This blockbuster story sold out one comic book issue after another, leading to many reprintings to keep up with demand!
Legendary Green Lantern Hal Jordan has returned to the Corps and has once again pledged to defend Earth and the rest of Sector 2418 from evil. But now his arch-nemesis and former mentor, Sinestro, has assembled an army of his own -- one dedicated to spreading fear throughout the galaxy.
Epic Green lantern War Which Will Stand-Up For Decades!! I never really liked Green Lantern and especially the GL Corps until Geoff Johns comes along and pens this epic along with Dave Gibbons and Peter Tomasi. The art was really good in the GL sections and just average in the Corps chapters. The key to any good hero is a good villain or villains. Here Johns gives us a ton of them. Sinestro is now a top of the line DC bad guy. Loved it!!
Geoff Johns solidifies his standing as the great Green Lantern chronicler THE SINESTRO CORPS WAR is not quite a masterpiece, but it contains a masterpiece. By this I mean that in the two volumes making up the story there is an absolutely brilliant story, but that a simple flaw keeps it from being as perfect as it should have been. Not everyone will agree with me, but for me the saga fell just short of perfection by not having sufficient contrasts in the narrative. The story ends up like a great symphony by Bruckner that consists exclusively of loud movements. Imagine only the final movement of the 8th Symphony for an entire hour, with no quieter movements. That is what THE SINESTRO CORPS WAR is like; all loud, no quiet. Or to shift the musical references to something more modern, there is a great documentary about the Pixies entitled loudQUIETloud, a reference to their popularizing in rock very loud passages following (or preceding) very quiet ones. But SINESTRO CORPS reads more like loudLOUDloud. The book is simply too busy and overstuffed with action for its own good.
What is in the story is brilliant. I'm merely saying that the books would have been improved by the inclusion of more passages that contrast more strongly with the huge, epic panels that fill the two volumes. If ever there was a comic that suffered from having too much happen, this is it. The story, in fact, almost gets tiring so much takes place on the pages.
OK, that is the extent of my criticism. Everything else about the two books is just brilliant. Geoff Johns has done more for the Green Lantern series than any other writer in the history of the franchise. And if you take all of his Green Lantern tales as a group, the effect is that of a great epic, an epic that is ongoing and has every sign of, if anything, getting even better.
Greean Lantern story for the ages! If you were to read only 1 GL novel, read this one. The story, characters, & art, all fall into place seemlessly. Geoff Johns crafts a war that burns into GL history. Sinestro is a man to fear & this novels puts his name among DC's top villain's list.
green lantern it's a great story a must for any green lantern fan the art is fantastic
This is why Marvel Comics are lame.... I haven't been a big fan of Green Lantern. I thought he was kinda lame, making mouse traps and big spoons to thwart criminals. And the fact that he can win a fight without throwing a punch is totally dumb to me. But, in recent events that are taking place in the DCU, Blackest Night is coming up, and it sounds AWESOME!!! So i decided to start picking up Green Lantern stuff. I've decidede to start with Sinestro Corps War Vol. 1
This comic is amazing. Geoff Johns has been writing Green Lantern for a long time, and i hope he doesn't leave the series. He does an amazing job. Sinestro Corps War is the story of Hal Jordan's arch nemesis building his own army of lanterns and trying to reshape the world the way he wants. Its a straight forward story of good vs. evil. I also like how Geoff has brought back Superboy Prime, the cyborg Superman, and the anti-monitor, its good to see characters from old comics come back. Especially these villains! Anti-monitor nearly destroyed the universe, cyborg superman destroyed coast city, and superboy prime nearly replaced earth with his earth. So the threat leve is very high, and it makes for exciting plot developments.
The art is good. Dave Gibbons does a good job. His art reminds me of Jim Lee, whom is the greatest artist ever, followed closely by Frank Quietly and Alex Ross. I like the big battle scenes with twenty charactes on it, very epic. And in an event like this, everything needs to be epic.
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