The ragtag adventures of Jedi Master and Padawan learner
continue this month with the first part in a new arc centered around the Black
Hand.
Last month’s issue of Green Lantern saw a cliffhanger that
would bring terror to minds of long time Lantern fans and those that follow big
DC events. With one word, my own bones were chilled. Black Hand is back as his old Black Lantern
self in this issue.
When I read the word, “rise” in the last panel of last
issue, I was weary of what came next. I worried that Blackest Night would
simply repeat itself once again in this rebooted universe. What did come, was
satisfactory, and creepy, and took away my worries about a rehash of a great DC
event that is responsible for getting me into comics. His plans for the future
aren’t something you’d expect from someone who was able to bring an entire
world of superheroes to its knees, but it is something you would expect from
someone having to live life after that.
While the Black Hand was a source of great entertainment,
the supposed “A” story involving Hal and Sinestro fell a little short. It
became a way to relay a prophecy running through all the Lantern books another
time and give us a short glimpse of what is to come in October with the Third
Army. It makes it harder and harder to figure out where these two fit in John’s
plans for every Green Lantern when they’ve been on the quite front of things.
While this is an issue that gets sidetracked with its main
characters, the story of a restored Black Hand makes it worth the buy and read.
Last Line…8/10
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