![]() ![]() When the three-part "Lost in Space" story is still new, Kyle casually showing Jessica around the cosmos - recognizing, indeed, that he "used to have your job" - is endearing, as is Jessica's first meeting with a number of Green Lantern Corps stalwarts. ![]() Indeed Humphries' entire Earth-bound, character-driven, going-out-for-pancakes Green Lanterns is a tonal descendant of Ron Marz's and Judd Winick's runs with Kyle in Green Lantern, so this ought not be much of a surprise. I would say that Humphries writes one of the better depictions of Green Lantern Kyle Rayner I've read in a while, and artist Ronan Cliquet, with shades of Paul Pelletier, draws his classic costume better and more familiarly than he's been in Hal Jordan and the Green Lantern Corps (points too for Carlo Barberi drawing a suave Guy Gardner). There is some good stuff here in both writing and art, but it's hidden amidst a whole lot of fluff. Maybe we were in for it after the previous seven-issue volume, but this is a shorter five-issue trade that twiddles its thumbs considerably ahead of Humphries' final book of his run. Unfortunately, that's got little to do with the book's titular Green Lanterns, Simon Baz and Jessica Cruz. 4: The First Ring, Sam Humphries treats us to another profile issue of this series' antagonist, further exploring the tragic friendship that has underlied many of this book's storylines. At the end of the Rebirth Green Lanterns Vol. ![]()
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