Wow, this was loud. There was a whole lot of action and fighting. It has plenty of excitement. So this story has been going on since 2005, so I came in on it toward the end and there is a lot of threads coming together here at the end and the pieces feel like I'm missing a little bit. Still, I did enjoy this and it makes me want to go back and read the whole thing. It's a huge volume with plenty of dense story telling.Green lantern reminds me of Star Trek and all the very weird alien species you...

This is it. The End of what many consider to be one of the best runs on a superhero comic book. In the previous volume, before getting sucked into the Black Lantern Ring, the unlikely duo of Sinestro and Hal Jordan desperately send their merged ring into the cosmos to look for someone like them that might be able to save the universe. That someone turns out to be car thief and suspected terrorist Simon Baz of Earth, a man that turns out to be a perfect blend of Sinestro and Hal's personalities,

A more than excellent ending and art was just over the top.And now I just have to look out for 30+ years of previous stories...This is everything comic books need to be and more.Green Lantern, you gained a new fan.

I'm pleased to say, this is a bounce back for Papa Johns after the turd dumping that was Trinity War.He's had a hard-on for GL forever; and here, he's able to close the chapter on a very respectable run for the Emerald Knights.When last we left our hero, he (and on again GL/Nemesis Sinestro) were killed by Black Hand. We know that Black Hand killing doesn't quite work, and Hal's been dead before, so would they go back that way? Who knows, but we do see Hal and Sinestro stuck in the Black/Afterwo...

Nearly a decade in the making, Geoff Johns brings his Green Lantern saga to a close. Typically, he brings high concept to the mythology right to the end.The volume kicks off with Geoff's first-ever original Green Lantern, Simon Baz, who thoroughly belongs to the Lost/Fast and the Furious generation (subsequent writers will have plenty to write about with this one), ending the post-New 52 three-volume run that concludes the saga with a slow build. The original Silver Age Green Lanterns, Hal Jorda...

The first couple of issues of this trade are incredibly political, and it makes for rather uncomfortable reading. Where other comic universe use metaphors for racism or religious hatred, this comic goes for the jugular. In the space of 30 pages we have a Muslim man being accused of terrorism, a woman in a Hijab being asked to leave her job because of what her brother is accused of, and the same man being water boarded. All the police brutalizing the soon to be new Green Lantern are white, the wo...

The end of the Green Lantern run. Find out what happens to all of your heroes and villains in the new 52.It's okay to be a car thief with courage via the Green Lantern Corps.Sinestro isn't always a jerk.Rodents can talk.Defying death is easy if you have heart.Parallax.The little blue men have made some really bad choices over the centuries. So much for long age leading to wisdom.ARTWORK PRESENTATION: B plus to A minus; CHARACTERS/DIALOGUE: B to B plus; ACTION SEQUENCES: A minus; STORY/PLOTTING/P...

Geoff Johns concludes his magnificent run on Green Lantern with this volume. And what a wild, invigorating 9-year journey it has been. Way back in 2004 when Green Lantern Rebirth came out, I had largely given up on comics. I had heard that the medium was undergoing a renaissance of sorts after the crossover-heavy, over-the-top 90s of my youth, so was on the edge of checking a few new books out. I loved comics, and the characters that inhabited their pages, but had grown weary of the same childis...

I read this with Green Lantern: New Guardians Vol 3. While this still wasn't great, it was better than the other volume. These two storylines are just very very weak. There's no real payoff from the Third Army and the First Lantern just peters out at the end. Not to mention that the resolution to that villain pretty much completely undermines another significant story from a few years ago. It was just a lot of cop outs. What this volume did have was a little more character growth. With three Gre...

If, like me, you’ve already read Rise of the Turd Army, you’ll already have read half of this volume. If, unlike me, you read Wrath of the First Lantern, you can basically skip this entire volume as that noise fills up the second half! So this is Geoff Johns’ final Green Lantern book (for now) hence the subtitle. Emotional? Nah, me neither. I didn’t read many of his Lantern books but the few I did were just ok (though I'm not really a big Green Lantern fan). The not-very-interesting Simon Baz is...

Four and a half stars, just because I'm a stingy jerk. I can't really say anything negative about this book. It was great in every aspect. Story was great. Amazing art. It tied in well to the Rise of the Third Army crossover event. And the conclusion was sappy, but terribly fitting for this GL story.If you are at all interested in Green Lantern this whole run by Geoff Johns has got to be on your "to read" list.

WHAT AN EPIC ENDING TO THE GREATEST RUN IN COMICS! It starts off with the Guardians activating their plans for the third army connected to them obviously devoid of free will and they take out Sinestro and Hal and send them to the dead zone/afterlife and thus it begins the quest of them both to get free while the ring chooses a new wielder in Simon and we follow his story for 1/2 of this volume and its so good and interesting and then we have Volthoom rising (the guy whose power the guardians wer...

This volume of Green Lantern brings to an end a nearly ten-year run of stories written by Geoff Johns, one of the star writers at DC Comics. The story follows from the last volume, where Green Lanterns Hal Jordan and Sinestro have been sucked into Black Lantern's ring, where they inhabit the Dead Zone. Most everyone there is really dead. They still have a bit of living in them, so there's a chance for them to escape.Meanwhile Jordan's power ring thinks he is dead because it flies off in search o...

A fantastic though over the top finale concludes this storyline. Justice was finally done to Hal Jordan "The Green Lantern". The end of many things that have been a fixture in the GL saga for many a year. Its been an superbly constructed journey across the three franchises and Geoff is likely the only guy who could have pulled this off. I wonder who they will turn to next to come up with something even more outrageous!

I've never been a huge Green Lantern fan, although I'm enough of a hard core comic book nerd to be familiar with the broad strokes of all the major Green Lantern storylines since the classic Neal Adams Green Lantern/Green Arrow roadtrip days. This puts me in an interesting position to review The End, the final story arc in Geoff Johns' acclaimed ten year run on Green Lantern. I'm knowledgeable enough to not be alienated by the decades of backstory, yet green enough to not be up on all the detail...

4.5 starsSappy?Most definitely.But it works, because it's Geoff Johns' love letter to a character that he brought back to life.If you've been following his run on Green Lantern since Green Lantern: Rebirth (like I have), then this one is a must-read simply because he's finally leaving GL. If you haven't, I still think this would be enjoyable. I mean, it even has an epilogue that shows how each of the Lanterns ends up with their Happily Ever After.An epilogue!Are you on board yet?Maybe. Maybe not...

I really liked how the last issue of this was structured a lot. The Green Lanterns are my favorites, so I'm a little biased. I do think I missed some stuff though because I didn't know there was a "Rise of the Third Army" I should have read before jumping into this one. I was reading the volumes as they were numbered, so I missed a lot about Kyle in a bridging volume between 2 and 3. I'm going to go back to fill in that missing info before continuing on.

Hal Jordan and Sinestro have been trapped in the underworld thanks to Black Hand. Who can step up when they go missing? Kyle Rayner! Simon Baz, who is chosen by Hal and Sinestro's merged ring with the implication that Simon can strike a balance between fear and courage. Simon is labeled a possible terrorist by the government and is pursued by the Justice League until he's rescued by B'dg, the giant squirrel Green Lantern. Meanwhile, the First Lantern (also known as Roy G. Biv Volthoom), trapped

All the really good stuff from Geoff John's Green Lantern finale is found in this book. It's pretty epic. And it is paired with some really great artwork.There are a few moments where I felt the writing went a little too far with sentiment and emotions.... But then, this is a war in which emotional light is the main weapon of choice, so....If for no other reason, this volume is essential reading just for the great pleasure of seeing those little blue buttheads, the Guardians, finally get what th...

Ive always been a bit hard on Geoff Johns. Pegging him as a mass producer, a star but not a superstar. I have to say though the work this man does in the New 52 is spectacular. From Justice League to Aquaman and now Green Lantern. Geoff Johns is DC and we are lucky for it.