Green Lantern Corps Vol. 2 # 42 - Hungry Heart, Part 2

Holy Crapola!!! Lets just start with that! I mean this issue is intense. It balances action and emotional tension excellently both through its excellent writing and splendid illustration.  
In the previous issue we saw several Lanterns deal with the ressurection of their teachers, loved ones and families and this issue deals with the climax of these individual miniture struggles and acculminates in a massive, off the scale, p!ss off brawl between Black and Green! So the Black lanterns have invaded Oa and are beating the crud out of nearly all the Green Lanterns. Had the beating and the violence continued through this entire issue the story would have felt limp and repetitive but thankfully it does'nt! With the Black Lanterns powers levels reaching their maximum their directive changes and this throws the story into a new direction. The story shifts from dealing with individual Lanterns attempts to deal with the attack to the whole Corps' attempts to save the the planet, themselves and the Green Lantern Corps as a whole. This move is excellently and seamlessly acheived as we see each character leave their individual struggle and join up to the greater fight. The story progresses naturally and steadily and the sense of climax is masterfully weaved through the story which means you'll fly through the issue.  
In no  way do you feel cheated that your reading something playing second fiddle to the Green Lantern or Blackest Night tittles and for some time I didnt pick up this tittle simply for that fear it would seem that way. The writing is top notch and in some aspects, hell in many aspects is better then these blackbuster titles.  
The ending is superb. Im not telling you what happens, its to excellent. I will say, it is emotional, it is beautifully simple and is written with the harsh realism and lack of cliche that will make you appreciate courage, honour and love. It will make you understand what it means to be a Green Lantern. 
 
Buy this issue, steal it, hell read it and put it back on the shelf. Its the kind of issue that will make you wonder why comics are called comics and not "dramatics", Its unmissable, five out of five. 

 Another great issue as the Green Lanter Corps Continue to fight the Black lantern Corps and as things seem hopeless Indigo-2 arrives to save the day but the Black lanterns stop attacking the GLC in order to attack another target the Central Battery Core. This is just a great story wonderful writing and great moments make for on heck of a comic and yes there is a death and it was written beatifully. And the art is just amazing the attention to detail is just simply amazing. In my opion if you are Collecting Blackest Night and Green lantern you are doing yourself a real disservice by not collecting GLC to. I'llgive this 5 indigo staffs out of 5. 

 

Well we all knew Geoff Johns was going to make Guy Gardner a Red Lantern at some point. We saw it advertised by DC a month or two on their website…

This is the issue which sets that up.

We don't actually see Guy become one… But we see the personal pain that's required for a Red Lantern's rage and we also find out where the ring he will wear comes from.

So that was kind of cool.

I'm really interested to see what Guy will be like as a Red Lantern and if he'll be that way for a while…

This issue was interesting because we see how mechanical a Black Lantern can be. During Blackest Night #5 we saw that the Black Lantern power levels reached 100%. Well having that happen a new directive is kicked in and we see all Black Lanterns on Oa stop dead in their tracks as they are now commanded by their rings to attack the central power battery…

A new ability is also demonstrated by the Black Lanterns where their rings can fabricate a form of "dark matter" which can form one huge construct.

Personally I really liked this idea. We see that each ring "downloads" a personality and uses that personality to get an emotional response from someone but what's downplayed is that they are all essentially running on the same frequency, almost like a hive mind. So it would make sense that two hundred lanterns can form a single HUGH construct because behind those two hundred rings is just a single will. I really liked it.

This was just another solid issue to come out of the Blackest Night event. Out of all events in recent memory, even going as far back as Heroes Reborn and Onslaught, this is easily the best event I've ever read.