Green Lanterns, Vol. 9
Green Lanterns, Vol. 9
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Average rating3
Dan Jurgens takes over for the final eight issues of the series. It's an improvement over Seeley, who has been consistently weak, and is a relatively straightforward action story without much additional depth to it. On its own merits, it's probably worth 4 stars, however, since the initial sense of menace and the method that the villain is using to combat the Corps works quite well - if you're really going to threaten the Corps existence, this is a pretty good way of doing it. And there are some good glimpses of the wider Corps, and the action does keep zipping along.
The reason I'm knocking it down to three stars is that the story is only barely about its nominal stars, Jessica and Simon. Certainly, they are in it, and both play a role in the resolution, but the story is as much about Hal and all the others as it is about them, and the primary threats are all from Hal's past. This makes it an unsatisfying end to the series, although it would be fine as part of something else. And the final scene does come a little out of left field, although it's as good a way to wrap things up as any.