I've had this one in a pile by my exercise bike for some time, so Metron has been de-motivating me for long enough! From 2014,
Green Lantern #35, "Godhead, Act I, Part II: Dead Worlds" Written by Robert Venditti, pencils by Billy Tan, inks by Rob Hunter, Batt, and Mark Irwin.
We saw another
chapter of 'Godhead' some time back, but the covers for the early chapters all had large blocks of text from the New Gods, who are way crankier than usual in this crossover. They've already stolen rings from Mogo and Saint Walker, messed with a large alien planet apparently experimenting with the rings, and now Highfather sets Metron on the task of cracking the Source Wall and getting the Life Equation. Metron hacks the Green Lantern's database, to get information about Kyle Rayner and the White Lantern, since he had gotten through the Source Wall and back; but Hal lets the hack go on long enough to see the hacker, and where.
He admittedly has a point there...Orion is not impressed with the Lanterns, and he and the Divine Guard mop the floor with them. Worse, when they just leave, Hal can see through the Boom Tube, there's a
lot more of them. And Metron had the whole GL database, so Hal's going to have to try something else, which you can probably guess since this crossed over with
Sinestro and
Red Lanterns.
Highfather pays lip service to some of the mayhem he was letting happen "for
the greater good" or whatever; but there's a real sense he's just had it with Darkseid and is willing to do whatever it takes to finally win their long war. I don't think Orion was given especially deep characterization in this one, either. There's sometimes a bit of a thug to him, though.
You actually have an exercise bike? Well of course you do for when it's too damn cold to go outside biking. Checks out, haha.
ReplyDeleteYeah hate to say it but Orion's got a point....maybe the Mother Box is finally rubbing off on him in a good way. Of course even a broken clocks' right at least once a day right?
Did NOT care for Vendetti's run at all. I get the fact that he was trying hard not to copy Johns and all but it just bored the shit out of me and made sure my decision to leave with Johns as the right one for me.
What about you?
All the GL stuff I've read and/or blogged lately I've picked up on the cheap, usually like fifty cents a pop. So I'm reading it in no particular order, but for the price, not bad?
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