In Brightest Day, in Flashpoint Night
The Good: For starters, that's a really cool cover. Iconic in all the right ways.
A really interesting way to start the issue. We get to see Abin Sur in his youth. It's not often a character who's legacy is to be dead gets their backround explored so thoroughly. It'd be like seeing Uncle Ben as a kid. No idea if it's happened before or not, but w/e.
Seeing Abin Sur in action is a delight. The famous dead lantern. What would he be like if he hadn't crashed?
The idea that the corps would still be fighting the black lanterns is a really interesting premise.
The Bad: Some things just don't quite add up. When the Black Lanterns first showed up, they were EVERYWHERE. How come now they're relegated to only 200 sectors? Why isn't Abin Sur more pissed off at the guardians for not listening to him about the prophecy of Blackest Night? How DID he not die in the whole mess of Atrocitus and Black Hand? How long have the Black Lanterns been out and about, shouldn't they have decimated Earth by now? Are the other lantern corps involved somehow?
The big bold plots used to make this different and awesome are just way too big to fit a 3 issue miniseries.
In Conclusion: 3/5
Overall this is a really entertaining and well written Green Lantern comic. But when you start thinking about it, there's a lot of potential plot holes. It seems like some major decisions were made to make this comic seem as awesome as it could, but they weren't well thought out and lead to a bit of a weird setting.
