We pick up, more or less, where Green Lantern Corps left off last week, with ALL the corps battling the Black Lanterns in the sky above Coast City, when suddenly, like an ominous black cloud, they all take off. The Black Lanterns that is, much to the puzzlement of John Stewart, Kilowog and Fatality, not to mention the rest of the Lanterns.
Turns out that Sinestro's little stunt with the white ring is getting their attention. Sinestro is babbling on about his destiny,while Hal, in relaying all of this to John sounds just the tiniest bit miffed, that HE doesn't get to play with the White Light. Oh Hal.
In a rather gorgeous sequence of events, Doug Mahnke and Geoff Johns show the rise of life, and the beginnings of the various entities that fuel the Corps of light Willpower was the first of course,
And
Holy Moley!
Too bad that while he was having his epiphany, Sinestro wasn't looking behind him, and Nekron sneaks up and slices him in twain. Nekron is seriously pissed.
While all of this is going on, john is still trying to figure out a way to get Xanshi out of Earth's orbit, where it is creating serious havok. It also creates a nice ol' tidal wave, which isn't nice at all. Thanks to Driq, the Lanterns manage to find a way inside of Xanshi, and use their combined powers to sever the connection. Heck, Fatality even helps!
Meanwhile, back on Earth, the rest of the Lanterns are trying to help Sinestro,except that he doesn't even appear to be dead. In fact they can't quite figure out WHAT is going on. The destruction of Xanshi does not go unnoticed by Nekron however, and he's even crabbier than he was formerly. Then all of a sudden, Black Lanterns are being destroyed right and left, and the White Light of Sinestro is burning brigher than ever. Sinestro is REBORN, and declares himself the TRUE Guardian of the Universe!
And now that you are all breathlessly on the edge of your seats, we leave you to wait until the finale next week!
Whew! There is a LOT going on in this issue! Rather interestingly, Hal isn't really in it all that much, he's mostly reacting instead of instigating. It is nice to see John step up and take charge as he's been mostly missing in action. But I'm dying to see how this all finishes up, and to see how Sinestro copes with all of this.
Darned good stuff.
