The Green Lantern #3: Punching God in the Face

What a strange but satisfying issue. The series steps outside of the ground level police procedural to go to the bizarre and fantastic elements of the Green Lantern mythos. It is a little funny that the series has so quickly gone off the rails but it is Grant Morrison so we knew it was coming. I did love that most of the characters that were bidding on the Earth had attempted to take it by force previously. It made me laugh the way the people accepted long term doom in favor of short term gain, some Morrison style preaching haha.

Thanos?

I did think it was strange that as far as we know this is the first contact between Green Lanterns and Blackstars but the GLs seem to know all about them. Likewise, the last couple pages were so uncharacteristic of Hal as to make me wonder if he’s being controlled in some way, or if it’s even him.

The art by Liam Sharp seems to be getting better every issue, I felt there were some issues with proportions earlier in the series that I didn’t notice this time around. His aliens are still top notch and plentiful.

Color by Steve Oliff is extremely complimentary to the art noticeably in the bidding scenes where a lot of different species are seated together. I love all the different skin shades and looks together.

I found out last week that industry veteran letterer Tom Orzechowski (Comic Watch best letterer nominee!) letters this series by hand, making the work all the more impressive.

I felt it worth noting the variant cover by Jae Lee might be one of the worst I’ve seen in some time.