DC Comics Review: Green Lantern #45

Rating: ***

When we were first given information about the Blackest Night min-series, we were told that this story would involve all of the various Ring Corps that exist in the universe.  So far, we haven’t seen much of them - only the Black Lantern rings racing across the universe and resurrecting the dead into Black Lanterns.  That all changes with this month’s issue of Green Lantern.  All of the various ring colors are represented here, but the major feature of this issue is the battle between yellow ring leader Sinestro of the Sinestro Corps and Carol Ferris of the violet colored Star Sapphires Corps.

I’ve mentioned before that I’m not a long-time Green Lantern reader so I didn’t know until recently that Carol Ferris was at one time a Star Sapphire.  So the impact of her as a Star Sapphire again and her fighting Sinestro does have the same impact on me as a long-time reader would have.  Still it’s very cool.  You don’t normally have the girlfriend/wife of a super-hero becoming a hero herself and then fighting her boyfriend/husband’s archenemy all that often.  Have we ever seen Mary Jane get powers and fight the Green Goblin?  So this is very cool and it adds a whole dynamic to the relationship of Hal Jordan, Carol, and Sinestro.

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