Yuck to Johns’s pacing. This issue features Sinestro showing off to Hal Jordan how much of a bad Lantern Jordan’s always been.
It’s lots and lots of talking, which the occasional action sequence or something ring-related.
For the most part, Mahnke and the inkers do a fine job. There’s sci-fi action, there are monsters, there’s superhero disaster stuff. The art never bests what the artists do in the first few pages, when they show how pissy Jordan gets over Sinestro having the ring.
I think the issue takes place in about twenty-five minutes, which is about six times longer than it takes to read the comic. And Sinestro is so much stronger, as a character, than Hal Jordan. Does Johns always write him this way?
He’s turned Sinestro into the Dr. Doom of the DC Universe; “evil” or whatever, but right about how to fix the world.
Well, for me it took cypher Hal Jordan to new lows as he takes totally illogical actions through out the issue. Your worst enemy “gives” you a ring and you attack him with it? You continue to utilize the ring after he shows you what a doofus you are in his hands? Hal is better off without the ring and it shows why he lost it in the first place. The art is great, with the spearing of the baddie near the end a nice serving of dessert for this eye candy meal. Now we just need a better comic to illustrate. Another second issue deflating the good will of the first, aarggh!