This is officially my first Green Lantern book I've read (unless count Omegemen. Which has a Lateran in it...and it's very good. Go read it.) Green Lanterns is the story of two characters, very different, who have to work together to take down the RED. The red are basically filled with rage and want to make everyone in the world fill up with...you guessed it...RAGEEEEEEE! Jessica has been a Lantern before, and it seemed she fucked up (again haven't read any other title...this is probably not the...

Totally love these new Lanterns. Jessica Cruz in particular is really breathing some new life into the Green Lantern Corps. My only issue is that you'd think that if the planet was being overtaken by Rage and the Red Lanterns, a few people from the JLA would have showed up to try to help.

I received this from Edelweiss and DC Comics in exchange for an honest review. Pretty good story showing the development of the two newest Green Lanterns from Earth, Simon Baz and Jessica Cruz. I'm interested to see what happens with this new rogue guardian and his special ring, as well as the planted rage seed, so I'll keep reading.

Whether you like this will depend on two things.1: Whether you like Jess & Simon.2: Whether you want an easy plot that is quick to get through. I really enjoyed this one, i love Jess & Simon i think they're an adorable team they overcome a lot within this volume, and i would say this does focus more so on the characters, giving them depth than creating this huge technical plot. Hal shows up and essentially forces them to work together, and they gotta go up against the red lanterns who are making...

In DC's Rebirth reset, all of the senior Green Lanterns of Earth are away across the cosmos (you can read about their adventures in Hal Jordan and the Green Lantern Corps, Volume 1: Sinestro's Law), leaving the duty to protect Space Sector 2814 to a pair of fresh new recruits. I've been excited about this series because it seems like a great new direction for the Green Lantern mythos, by telling a modern story through fresh eyes. It brings the Green Lantern concept back to its core of being a sp...

I dig this one. I trust they'll develop the characters more down the line, but it's a good start.

5 🌟Nice to see Jessica and Simon in action as Green Lanterns. Glad the rings picked them. The rage lantern group was very scary. Wonder when the seed will take over the Earth. Happy that Simon and Jessica's first mission as Green Lanterns went okay. Rami seems interesting.Can't wait to read Green Lanterns, volume 2: The Phantom Lantern!!!!

Hal Jordan finds 2 misfits and brings them together to make this buddy cop series.I mean misfits like this, Simon baz is a Muslim who’s house is being vandalized with stuff saying “terrorists”, Jessica Cruz was hiding in her apartment for 3 years because of anxiety.The good in this is the relationship between Simon and Jessica which at times was annoying but also nice, I quite liked the story with the rage seeds and really liked the art.The bad is that I felt some parts were boring during dialog...

“RAAAARRRGH! My name is Atrocitus and I’m a monster with a red ring. I leads the Red Lanterns!”“Ugh, why’re you spitting blood everywhere??”“Excuse me but I’m VOMITING blood everywhere and it’s because I’m a Red Lantern – it’s what we do! I want to put a Rage Seed in Earth.”“You wanna knock up the planet? That sounds stupid.”“It is. And a penis-like Hell Tower will burrow down into the Earth’s egg, uh, core where the Seed will be placed.”“Why!?”“Prophecy.”“What?”“There’s a prophecy, dude.”“I’ve

I really loved this because I'm a fan of both Simon Baz and Jessica Cruz. Their personalities are so different, so it's interesting to see them overcome these differences. Also, they are flawed as Lanterns, so their struggles against their flaws are compelling to read. In particular, Jessica's battle against anxiety attacks makes her a very different kind of superhero. The conflict between her fear and the willpower it takes for her to even go out the door is powerful. As an added bonus, Bleeze'...

This one was quite good!Sam and Jess have to work together after Hal deems it so and well we have this two new rookie lanterns working together but they hate each other and we see their struggles and whatnot and them learning to be heroes but when attacked by Atrocitus and his red lanterns and people being angry the world over, these two have to set aside their differences and work together and I love the way it happens and with Jess wanting to save her sister and trying to learn to make constru...

I'm glad I finally read this. On Rage Planet the plot is on the background, the character development is the real attraction. Which makes it hard at first when the main characters seem so unlikable. But as the events unfold, the Red Lanterns are planning to turn Earth into their new home planet spreading a rage infection, we see these lanterns facing extreme situations that slowly change their vision of themselves. It's greatly done really, it takes a while to build up, it takes some patience to...

The 2 newest rookie GL's must partner up to protect Earth. The Red Lanterns are trying to fulfill a prophecy called Red Dawn. The story isn't all that great. People across the Earth are being infected with some kind of rage virus. What is good is the characterization and interactions between Simon Baz and Jessica Cruz. It's really what makes the book. Simon Basically thinks he can do anything through sheer willpower and he pretty much can. Jessica used to be Power Ring and was controlled by her

Solid first outing for the new green lantern recruits. Both characters are at differnt ends of the personality spectrum. You have the overly confident Simon and the anxious and to a certain degree frightened Jessica. Both have to tackle the red lantern threat, which has appeared to spread a Rage virus. Interesting dialogue between the 2, if a little cliched, the plotting/story is pretty weak if not predictable. The artwork is ok not amazing but seems to suffer from the same issue as the story. I...

The Green Lantern line expanded to an almost ungainly level at certain points of the New 52, with 4 or 5 books running at once. Rebirth strips that back to just two; Hal Jordan and the Green Lantern Corps, which focuses on the Corps at large (and is excellent), and Green Lanterns, a more Earth-centric book that focuses on the two newest Green Lanterns of Earth, Simon Baz and Jessica Cruz.Both had a lot of groundwork laid in the New 52, but were never really explored as characters. Writer Sam Hum...

I wanted to like Simon and Jessica, but the honest truth is that that these two (when paired up) just annoyed the shit out of me.He's angry and she's scared. All. The. Time.And yeah. The point of this volume is that they each overcome some of their demons and learn to rely on each other as partners. So...yay! Mission accomplished.On the upside? Gorgous art & vibrant colors. If you happen to like the storyline and characters, then the visuals are just going to be icing on the cake!Bottom line?I t...

Read as single issue comics. Probably more like a three and a half stars but I'll just go with four. Better than decent, but more for the interaction between the two Green Lanterns and less for the over reaching plot dealing with Red Lanterns. I've been able to enjoy this one a lot despite Jessica's endless anxiety... I think a lot of it has to do with these characters not really having a lot of pre-existing history too. I think most people could follow the story without having read any other Gr...

Why the hell do we have to have two lanterns now? :/So, there's something coming right? can't remember the name.......LOL how many times can you say "Red dawn" in a minute :DOkay, still want to know what this will bring though ;)

I don't understand the books that are written by young guys, that have dialogue that seems like it is from the 90s. Usually, the newer writers hold back on the over explaining within the narration. this book is the complete opposite. Over and over again, Cruz and Baz are telling us what their personalities are like, instead of showing us. They are saying how dangerous and scary the rage virus that the Red Lanterns are spreading is, without us actually seeing much of it. This book is all tell and...

I missed when Jess and Simon both became the current Green Lanterns of Earth, or why exactly Hal is off in deep space. I assume that will be explored more thoroughly in his book. I guess how much you like this book will depend on how much you like Jess and Simon, and I liked Jess rather more than Simon. It's not that I don't like him, it's just that he's more or less interchangeable with any number of impulsive young mean I've encountered in fiction, and it's only the exact details of his dramat...