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Green Lantern, Vol. 5: The Sinestro Corps War, Vol. 2 (Green Lantern IV #5)
by
Geoff Johns,
Dave Gibbons, Peter J. Tomasi, Ivan Reis , Patrick Gleason , Ethan Van Sciver , Angel Unzueta , Dustin Nguyen
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The ultimate showdown between Hal Jordan--the greatest Green Lantern of all--and his arch-enemy, Sinestro, continues in this new volume.
Hardcover, 192 pages
Published
July 8th 2008
by DC Comics
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When last we left the Lanterns, Mogo and the Corps were under assault from the Sinestro Corps (including super-villains like Cyborg Superman, Superman Prime, Arkillo and a sentient virus) and the Guardians were bickering about an esoteric prophecy called Blackest Night.
This digest collects the second half of the Sinestro War story arc and sets things up for the Blackest Night arc that follows. Lots of groundwork is laid here for future lantern stories: lethal force is enabled for Green Lantern...more
This digest collects the second half of the Sinestro War story arc and sets things up for the Blackest Night arc that follows. Lots of groundwork is laid here for future lantern stories: lethal force is enabled for Green Lantern...more
Picking up where the last volume ended, readers will find the Green Lantern Corps on the losing side of a war that will likely change the way the galaxy deals with justice. The Sinestro Corps, a group that has similar powers to the Green Lantern Corps with a focus on fear rather than order, has set about to destroy the corps in order to take over. Sinestro, once considered the best of the Green Lanterns before he was booted out because of his over-emphasis on fear and violence is out for revenge...more
Sending this space battle to Earth and adding in some more colorful mythology improved the epic battle of green versus yellow, willpower v. fear. There's some interesting war-time allegories, as the Green Lanterns sacrifice their morals for victory over the yellow guys. The earthly exceptionalism is vexing--space battles so often culminate on earth, and some Oans call earthlings the most diverse and emotional of all species. I appreciate that this big story was limited to just two comics, but th...more
Teil 2 ist ein böse und brutale Fortsetzung des Sinestro Corps War. Nachdem jetzt auch die Green Lanterns töten dürfen, endet die Geschichte in einer All-Out Schlacht auf der Erde. Wir bekommen alte Bekannte wie Parallax, Cyborg Superman, Superman Prime und den Anti-Monitor zu sehen, und die neuen Corps werden angeteast. Ein sehr gutes Trade.
Andererseits stört mich so ein bisschen die Einführung der ganzen anderen Corps aus dem emotionalen Spektrum. Dass das kommt muss sowieso jedem klar sein, d...more
Andererseits stört mich so ein bisschen die Einführung der ganzen anderen Corps aus dem emotionalen Spektrum. Dass das kommt muss sowieso jedem klar sein, d...more
This is the conclusion of the Sinestro Corps war. And it starts with a problem. At the end of the previous volume, the Green Lanterns are getting their butts handed to the, in some cases literally, by the Sinestro Corps. Faced with the reality that the Corps is about to be obliterated, the Guardians rewrite the book of Oa, allowing the rings to use lethal force.
So I opened up this volume, expecting to see the blood bath as the Corps starts to be able to really fight back. Instead, Johns rolls t...more
So I opened up this volume, expecting to see the blood bath as the Corps starts to be able to really fight back. Instead, Johns rolls t...more
Feb 01, 2011
Patrick Hester
rated it
1 of 5 stars
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I didn't care for this as much as I have the other collections. It was all over the place and didn't feel very coherent. I think it suffers from the same thing that all of these massive crossover events suffer from - too much bs. They decide to do one of these and then they have to fill up all these different books with content - it's just too much.
Pulling it altogether into a single collection like this is great - if the story is tight, which this one isn't. The only purpose of this storyline w...more
Pulling it altogether into a single collection like this is great - if the story is tight, which this one isn't. The only purpose of this storyline w...more
The Sinestro Corps War reads like a comic book version of a summer blockbuster movie. There were a lot of battles and explosions, but not a lot of detailed plot. It was an entertaining story, but the flash didn't leave much of an impression. Until I read the story, I had realized that it was such an obvious set up for Blackest Night, which makes this story seem a lot less important in its own right. I rated the first volume lower than the second, only because it suffered from too much repetitive...more
I gave The Sinestro Corps War Vol. 1 another chance at the urging of a friend and liked it better the second time. I'm not sure that the pseudo-sci-fi of Green Lantern is really my thing, but I was at least entertained.
I wasn't familiar with most of the characters, and while this didn't really help me to connect with them, I did feel interested in the universe as a whole. By the end of this book, my curiosity was sufficiently piqued to convince me to look for the next volumes at the library.
I wasn't familiar with most of the characters, and while this didn't really help me to connect with them, I did feel interested in the universe as a whole. By the end of this book, my curiosity was sufficiently piqued to convince me to look for the next volumes at the library.
This book is a mixed bag. Whenever Ivan Reis is doing the artwork, the story just flows along nicely. Pacing is well maintained by Geoff Johns as he tells the story of Sinestro as he works to bring down the Guardians of the Universe and Green Lantern Corps with the help of the Anti-Monitor, Cyborg Superman, and Superboy-Prime. The parts of the story where Patrick Gleason provides the art, the story tends to leave readers with a feeling of "great layouts, but I wish the artwork was nicer". Still,...more
Feb 10, 2009
Mike Rutschky
rated it
3 of 5 stars
Recommends it for:
Fans of Superhero fiction, science fiction
Recommended to Mike by:
Wes Lowery
A truly epic superhero space opera. The prophecy of the Seven Corps war (8 counting the Black Lanterns) and the foretelling of The Blackest Night is as great a mythology as anything the Norse or Egyptians had. Translating emotion into colors and symbols has a very primal resonance with our species that is complimented here by the spectacle of intergalactic armies going to war in space in the names of these emotions. The Sinestro Corps War proves that the larger-than-life, mythological aspect of...more
My feelings on the overall story arc can be found in my review of the Sinestro Corps War Vol. 1. In short, I really liked this story.
However, I didn't enjoy vol. 2 as much, at least at first. Things kind of dragged in chapters six through eight, but really picked up in chapter 9, with the battle between Sadam Yat and Superman Prime. After that, things got really good, especially during the battle with the Anti Monitor and the final showdown with Hal Jordan and Sinestro.
Like I said in my Vol. 1...more
However, I didn't enjoy vol. 2 as much, at least at first. Things kind of dragged in chapters six through eight, but really picked up in chapter 9, with the battle between Sadam Yat and Superman Prime. After that, things got really good, especially during the battle with the Anti Monitor and the final showdown with Hal Jordan and Sinestro.
Like I said in my Vol. 1...more
Only slightly lesser than volume 1, and that's only because there are fewer character moments here, but they are more than made up for by the level of epic action. I won't mention my favorite panel, because it'd be a spoiler, but needless to say this felt way more universe-rending and powerful than "52" (which I abandoned before I got anywhere near "Final Crisis") did. Johns' run on GL (which is ongoing as of '09) is one of those books like Fraction's run on Invincible Iron Man or Bendis on "New...more
I got this mostly to see how the story ended. I was not particularly thrilled by the first one, and this was not that much better. It was not bad. Just not great either. A very convoluted plot, a lot of overloaded panels at times that, while nicely drawn, were just a bit visually overwhelming. Big fans of Green Lantern will probably enjoy this. More casual comics readers like me may consider it optional reading. With the new film out, it may or not get you in the mood for the film. Overall, this...more
Mar 01, 2008
John Wiswell
rated it
4 of 5 stars
Recommends it for:
Fantasy readers, sci fi readers, comics readers
This review appears for both volumes of the collected Sinestro Corps War story.
How about that, they made me a Green Lantern fan. You know, the superhero with the magic ring that makes him travel around space as a bright green policeman? Geoff Jones and a wonderful art staff managed to grasp all the best parts of this superhero mythos and create some very engaging fantasy by tapping into grand themes. Green represents life and willpower; the absurd weakness to yellow is because yellow represents...more
How about that, they made me a Green Lantern fan. You know, the superhero with the magic ring that makes him travel around space as a bright green policeman? Geoff Jones and a wonderful art staff managed to grasp all the best parts of this superhero mythos and create some very engaging fantasy by tapping into grand themes. Green represents life and willpower; the absurd weakness to yellow is because yellow represents...more
Reprints Green Lantern #24-25 and Green Lantern Corps #16-19. Sinestro brings the war to Earth and the Green Lanterns fight to prevent the Blackest Night. A lot of fighting...that is the bottom line of this book. There is plot development between punches but the story is mostly focused on the war between the Sinestro Corps and the Green Lantern Corps. The story starts to get into the Blackest Night and the multi-spectrum rings, and does an ok job of balancing out the fighting with the set up.
Nov 04, 2010
Federiken Masters
rated it
3 of 5 stars
Recommends it for:
DCistas incondicionales.
Recommended to Federiken by:
La misma curiosidad que mató al gato.
Pongo la misma reseña para ambos tomos y el especial de los "Sinestro Tales" porque los leí en revistas separadas y ni sé dónde arranca cada uno, pero en conjunto van narrando todos más o menos lo mismo. Se trata de un "Evento" comiquero con muchos pochoclos de colores, una historia con una premisa interesante no muy bien llevada y altibajos constantes. Los dibujo se mantienen en un nivel bastante bueno pero no así los guiones, que oscilan entre partes entretenidas y estremecedoras y otras ridíc...more
A good conclusion to the title conflict, and an introduction to something DC has really run with since. Anything that features Guy Gardner, especially a well-written Guy Gardner, will always get a bump up from me, bot overall I thought the book balanced action - lots and lots of action - with the right amount of character development, humor and mythology.
Also, a team book where the people actually work as a team? Be still my beating heart :)
Also, a team book where the people actually work as a team? Be still my beating heart :)
On the whole I have not been a fan of the Blackest Night storyline, either the build-up to it or the story itself when it finally rolled out. Strangely enough this volume is one of the few of that period that actually works well for me. As I have come to expect, Geoff Johns handles the writing deftly and with great skill, so no complaints there. On the whole it is a good volume and worth reading.
May 02, 2011
Jerry Daniels
rated it
2 of 5 stars
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review of another edition
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Fortunately, the stories told in part two of Green Lantern: Sinestro Corps War are easier to follow than those in part one as the Guardians from the planet Oa decide to revise their sacred scripture to enable the Green Lanterns win the war against Sinestro Corps. The result is a set up for another story in a future Green Lantern title that would hopefully have a point to make.
The beginnings of the War of Light appear as Earth's champions assist the Lanterns against Sinestro's Corps. Featuring Cyborg Superman, Superboy Prime, and the Anti-Monitor among their number, it takes both Hal and Kyle to shut down the invasion. Yet Sinestro seems awfully pleased with himself upon tale's end...
What an amazing graphic novel! I thought volume one was great, but volume two was even better! The Sinestro Corps versus The Green Lantern Corps... fear versus willpower. I couldn't put this graphic novel down. Honestly, I couldn't even get enough sleep! I stayed up late, reading, just to see what was going to happen next. It was good, and I don't think I'll forget the storyline. It was hardcore.
This storyarc continues where Part 1 had left off. The real reason for the assult on Earth is that it is the center of the Multiverse and a prelude to THE BLACKEST NIGHT!
As I have stated earlier, you have to read it to find out more.
As I have stated earlier, you have to read it to find out more.
Mar 09, 2010
Jack Cheng
added it
This was well reviewed on superhero comic book websites but I found it stretched out, and extremely gory. I understand that the lethal actions depicted are meant to be a significant step, but it just seems over the top to me. Not for kids.
Geoff Johns single handedly got me back into the dcu with this book. Masterful storytelling, wonderful art and the birth of a storyline that will go down in history as the greatest GL arc of all time.
Pretty much the same as the first volume - status quos are changed, several memorable battles ensue, and we get a nice foreshadowing of the future of the GL titles. Some damn fine comics.
A space opera on a grandiose scale, this work’s background was a little hard to follow for a casual reader like me. Yet it was still a successful volume and an enjoyable read once one accepted the cosmic scope of the work, revelled its sheer scale and soaked in the epic nature of the storyline.
A very enjoyable read. I particularly enjoyed the extended focus on Sodom Yat's background and his violent battle with Superboy-Prime, that was quite memorable.
The Sinestro Corps war is a classic in waiting. Epic showdowns leading up to the Blackest Night series(which failed to outshine Sinestro Corps War).
A good conclusion to The Sinestro Corps War, but the vast amount of fighting keeps it from being great.
Same as volume 1 of the Sinestro Corps War, amazing!!! Still possibly the best GL story I have read.
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Geoff Johns originally hails from Detroit, Michigan. He attended Michigan State University, where he earned a degree in Media Arts and Film. He moved to Los Angeles in the late 1990’s in search of work within the film industry. Through perseverance, Geoff ended up as the assistant to Richard Donner, working on Conspiracy Theory and Lethal Weapon 4. During that time, he also began his comics career...more
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