And Then I Read: GREEN LANTERN CORPS 22

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“Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;

Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,”  — William Butler Yeats, “The Second Coming”

That has long been the theme of the Green Lantern universe, and it continues in current issues. The Guardians are off on a junket at the edge of known space. Back on Oa, the center, things are breaking down. The machinery of the Corps: the power rings, are having unpredictable failures that no one can explain, and the same is happening to the other similar groups like the Star Sapphires. Entropy is setting in. There’s a power vacuum at the center, and enemies are beginning to take advantage of it, infiltrating Corps areas and activities. I think I like the way things are being nibbled away at rather than the usual giant battle, more interesting for now. We’ll see where it goes. This issue has some pretty good writing by Van Jensen and Robert Venditti, and excellent art by Bernard Chang.

Recommended.