Book Review: Hal Jordan & the Green Lantern Corps, Volume 3: Quest for Hope

Hal Jordan & the Green Lantern Corps, Volume 3: Quest for Hope by Robert Venditti

My rating: 4 of 5 stars


This book collects two separate 4 issue storylines. Issues 14-17 collects the Quest for Hope in which John Stewart has ordered all Yellow Lanterns hunted down and either recruited into the corps or imprisoned as part of the effort to bring the Green Lantern and Yellow Lantern corps together.

Hal Jordan and Kyle Rayner go to rescue the last Blue Lantern in hopes of bringing back the Blue Lantern corps while Guy Gardener flies off to make a very personal appeal to his counterpart in the Yellow Lantern Corps---with his fists.

The Prism of Time comes in Issues 18-21 and finds Rip Hunter having traveled from the future to prevent the disappearance of the Green Lantern Corps at the hands of a man who is upset that their alliance with the Sinestro Corps works too well for his liking in the future.

There are some good ideas here as Stewart struggles to pull the two former enemies corps together. The characters are great and very fun to read. Guy Gardener's crazy fight is probably the highlight of the book.

The second story arc is strong, with some hints towards the future, and an emotional reveal in the last few pages.

The thing that most mars this book is the first story arc which ends in a way that feels contrived to change Kyle Rayner's power set and designation to fit with what he'd like to do in the book even if it didn't make sense. It screams, "Contrivance." I wasn't horribly attached to Rayner's previous status but it led to a very anti-climatic feel to the first arc.



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