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The Green Lantern Chronicles: V.1 (2009)

by John Broome(Favorite Author)

3.6 of 5 Votes: 1

ISBN

1848562241 (ISBN13: 9781848562240)

languge

English

genre

Science Fiction

publisher

Titan Books Ltd

series

The Green Lantern Chronicles

review 1: 1959, an interesting time in the development of hero comics. Green Lantern is a player, dating the most beautiful women in Coast city. Batman didn't do that; he was too busy fighting crime all night to be squiring lovelies to hot night clubs in his costume. On the other hand, GL has a similar situation with his lady love as Superman. Lois Lane and Carol Ferris could be twins; both have beauty, brains, ambition but are petulant, self centered and high maintenance. the story lines are clearly influenced by the science fiction golden age in which they were written. Aliens have a much bigger role than gangsters. the art is slick, vivid and gorgeous. the color palate is adventurous perhaps because you have the green and yellow aspect to story. I had forgotten the parti... morecular pleasure of this hero, his vulnerability to color yellow. his power has 2 limits, 24 hour time limit and it doesn't work on anything yellow. the writers are particularly skillful at inventing surprising uses of yellow in the villans and in the ways GL must cleverly get around direct contact. But how long before that gets old? He's a little more like Batman than Superman in his problem solving because yellow is more common than kryptonite.
review 2: Remembering that this was made in a different time for a different audience, this was a fun book. Somewhat repetitive, but again these were very much for children. Gil Kane's art is fantastic even at this early stage. And it's pretty cool that they're doing all Green Lantern stories in chronological order (or at least that's the plan - the publishing schedule for these is scattershot). For $15 US a good deal! less

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