That is not the cover to green lantern. The real green lantern cover has Sinestro on the cover wearing a green lantern ring. It is pretty gutsy to put a GL #1 comic and not have Hal as the GL. But having Sinestro as the lead is quite a surprise. During the comic he even has to fight his old Sinestro Corp.
If you have been reading GL you will have no problem picking up the story, as it continues with a lot of the continuity from before. But if you are starting GL new? It might take a bit to understand. The book starts off with the Guardians, but it never really explains who they are. They introduce Sinestro, but they only explain that he was once a bad guy, not how bad a guy he was. He just seems misunderstood or rebellious, not villanous. And showing Hal without his ring might be hard for a new reader to root for his return, when they aren’t invested in him as a hero yet.
For a die hard GL fan, the book is very interesting. The art is up to Mahnke’s high standards. But it actually looks better than I’ve seen from him in while. I think the inker and colorist on this book deserves some high praise as they help the art pop off the page.
Sets up a great story arc for the future B+ —– Don
Green Lantern is easily one of the 52 “new” books that hasn’t changed a thing, and it didn’t have to. It’s easy enough to pick this up as a first issue, but it also continues Geoff Johns’s long-running and acclaimed storyline going all the way back to the Rebirth mini-series. The new status quo, with Sinestro being chosen as a Green Lantern again and Hal being grounded without a ring on Earth, is intriguing. Longtime GL readers should be able to continue without skipping a beat, but it’s also as good a time as any for new readers to check out a book that has been great for years now. If there’s anything that’s not overwhelmingly positive about this issue, it’s that it comes after the epic events of the Sinestro Corps war and the Blackest Night storyline, so it’s something of a calm before yet another storm.
B+ —– Ed
My copy has a white cover and is sealed. So, should I get another copy to read an leave the white cover sealed?
I think that is just the bagged and boarded variant by Diamond. The “seal” is just a tag from the distributor to tape the bag shut – it isn’t factory sealed the way a polybag would be. An otherwise unblemished copy without the bag/board/sticker would still be considered to be in perfect condition. My own view on variant covers is to pick the one I like best and always read ‘em – if I wanted to invest, I’d by stock in the company (and I have, and it worked out pretty well!).
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