Green Lantern #24 (May 1992)

This is exactly how they defeat Star Sapphire and her hair at the end of the issue!

Thankfully this is the last issue drawn by Pat Broderick. Not that I have anything negative to say about Pat but it's tough picking up an issue where the cover looks like this and my penis thinks, "We're in for some Keep on Truckin' adult fun, right?!" Then 20 pages later, my penis is all, "What the fuck? Nothing? Not even the hint of a nipple?" I'm convinced Pat Broderick's run of Green Lantern has given me ED. My penis refuses to react to actual stimulation now! It's all, "Oh, right. Is this mouth around me actually going to get me off or is it just another Hal Jordan story?"

My penis isn't smart.

Is this queerbaiting?

I don't think this image alone is queerbaiting although look how fucking sexy it is. But maybe if you add in how Hal refuses to commit to any women and/or exclusively dates women he knows he shouldn't, like his boss or his arch enemy or a 12 year old alien girl who pretends to be a woman and later gets retconned into actually being a woman because fucking gross man, and how Hal keeps trying to make the Green Lantern Corps exclusively male like his own version of a Spartan army or how John Stewart hasn't been interested in women since his wife and five billion aliens died. There's also that farming/mining woman who both Hal and John seem to be interested in. She's simply there as a hetero-go-between to shield the love they actually have for each other. Like that time I was at a club fucked up on shrooms with my pal Bobby and I realized I could dance with him if I had my cousin Jennifer standing backwards on my feet and I was manipulating her arms. I know, I know! I could have just danced with Bob! But I'd already spent about ten minutes in the bathroom staring at the wall and listening to the muted beats while standing at a urinal with my dick in my hands because the vibe was fucking awesome, so I think I was already being hate-watched by some angry heteros by that point.

Surprisingly, page 2 does not feature Hal Jordan sucking John Stewart's cock. Some might find that disappointing. But not me! I'm just glad the Star Sapphire's outer labia makes an appearance.

Is that the outer labia or just extra secret inner thigh?

I'd Google "outer labia" but Google is fucking broken now and also I don't want the first outer labia I see to be AI-generated. But now I'm curious! What if I Google "Rule 34 Outer Labia"? Well let me tell you: Is it strange that the first two image hits were of Mei from Overwatch? Is she known for having a chunky outer labia? Is that lore directly from the game?

Also based on my now extensive research, Star Sapphire has only exposed a hint of extra secret inner thigh meat. Look at me! I'm learning anatomy!

When Star Sapphire appears, she calls Hal and John "Lover Boys." And since she's never fucked John (and may have never fucked Hal for some reason. Hal hints at never having fucked her early in this issue and why would he lie to himself while narrating his own life? I mean why would he lie in that direction! If I were lying to myself, I would have fucked Star Sapphire so many times that the Arabs don't even have a number for it)), she must have seen what I saw: Hal wants to wear John like a winter muff. But Carol just wants to kill him.

How is Carol's sword slicing through the defense of the most powerful weapon in the universe? Did Carol piss on her sword before the battle?

If I ever got a gig writing a Star Sapphire story, one of my top notes would read, "Carol Ferris pisses on any weapon she's about to use against a Green Lantern." Of course for that to be successful, she'd have to be severely dehydrated. Which she probably is in this story being that she's been kept in a crystal box for months.

Some evidence to my piss theory: look at Carol's sword? It's bloody near the hilt because she sliced open Brik and AA with it. And how did she get through their defenses? Look at the tip of her sword. Covered in what looks like green liquid. But John's shield wouldn't turn into green liquid when cut. My guess is that's an error by the colorist. That liquid on Carol's sword should be yellow because it's piss.

The other five members of the Green Lantern Corps arrive to help (the 6th, Guy Gardner, wasn't notified). Star Sapphire knows she can't beat them all because she just doesn't have enough piss in her. So she threatens to cut John's throat if they attack her. How John lost so quickly and easily, I have no idea. No wait! I do have an idea and I already mentioned it: piss sword!

The Green Lanterns hesitate and wait for Hal's order: do they kill Star Sapphire or risk Star Sapphire killing John? Some people might think it's an easy decision based on tropes of good and evil and who the aggressor is in this situation. But Hal isn't some people. Hal thinks with his fists and his dick and his lack of giving a shit for John Stewart and his problems.

Was Larvox a porn star on his home planet?

Before Jordan can hesitate long enough for Star Sapphire to kill John Stewart and solve the problem for him, Flicker attacks. Yeah, Flicker's still being a little space bitch trying to start up a 20th century slave trade (in space).

Hal! Larvox is right there! Enough with the microaggressions to your one-eyed partners!

Hal Jordan defeats Flicker in just a few panels, probably because editorial was getting really nervous about his name appearing in easily-smeared ink on newsprint. He was such a threat for so long because he could teleport at will. But for some reason, he forgets to teleport this time and Hal Jordan flies right up to him and punches him in the face. It would be more believable if Hal used his stupid ring for once. No wonder so many fangenders fell in love with Kyle Rayner. Much more enjoyable to have an imaginative character who makes light constructs rather than a dimwitted brawler who just wants to hit shit.

While Hal captures Flicker, John blasts Star Sapphire and she flees. But according to the cover which mentions her death, she'll be back. I really doubt she's going to die though. Seems like bullshit.

Guy Gardner shows up because Hal Jordan needs all the Green Lanterns in the Corps so he can stop them all from killing Star Sapphire. That makes sense because Hal probably wants to teach them a lesson about not killing women or something.

Or the opposite!

After not being able to defeat Star Sapphire, the Green Lantern Corps defeat her in one page when Hal directs them to all link their willpower. They blast her with a green beam without her even raising her sword. I blame the anti-climactic moment to having too many antagonists whose stories need to wrapped up after a four or five story arc. I didn't even mention how Kreon's story wrapped up because I found that whole part of the story agonizingly boring. But now we get to the crux of the story! Will John Stewart lose his humanity by killing Star Sapphire. He hasn't lost it yet after killing four or five billion aliens when he arrogantly thought he could disarm the planet-sized bomb by himself and then discovered it was yellow. But they were just aliens and not a human woman. It's different somehow. I think even Superman sometimes kills aliens without giving a shit.

John decides not to kill Star Sapphire. But with Hal's help, they kill her together. But not her body because the body belongs to Carol Ferris. They just drive her out of Carol's mind so that Carol can return to her normal self in her normal clothing. At least that's what they think! I bet the final page of the comic book will be Star Sapphire in Carol's head laughing like a maniac.

Once back on Oa, Hal introduces the last two members of the new Green Lantern Corps: Tomar-Tu and Kreon the Bore. G'nort also shows up after finally locating Oa. Hal welcomes him as an official Green Lantern as well. Hopefully now that G'nort is on Oa, Kilowog will knock some discipline into him.

Next issue, Hal beats the shit out of Guy Gardner.

Green Lantern #24 Rating: B-. Hal and John have had the weight of the Star Sapphire thing hanging between them for an awful long time. And now it's over, just like that. Hal tells John to kill her but John can't. So that means they're all good, I guess? Why talk out your problems when you can just beat the shit out of a woman together and force her to become somebody new? Not like that's a surprise. Hal only knows one solution to any problem: hit it until it stops being a problem. Guy's going to find out all about that next issue as Hal Jordan figures out the best way to get his Earth job back. Guess what? It involves a lot of punching Guy Gardner in the face.

Green Lantern #23 (April 1992)

John knew how intense this fight was going to be so he rolled up his sleeves. But just a little bit.

I don't know why I focused so much on the artist's fuck up of John's costume (obviously giving John Hal's forearm covering white gloves but then making them John's skin tone (which is kind of orange here but that's a different complaint)) and not on why Star Sapphire has four tons of hair on her head. She looks like one of those idiotic supers who have "hair" as their superpower, like Godiva or Medusa. If my super power was "hair," I'd just keep it cut short and live like a normie.

John Stewart's wife was killed by Star Sapphire so you can imagine how badly John Stewart wants to kill Star Sapphire's husband. She doesn't have one though so killing Hal Jordan will have to do. Unless he decides to kill Star Sapphire which might be actual justice and not Biblical justice. Biblical justice is when something bad happens so somebody not directly involved in the injustice is punished. Like God destroying two whole cities because some hitchhikers wanted to fuck a stranger, or Noah cursing his son's children when it was his son who looked at his naked wiener, or when Levi and Simeon murdered all the men of Canaan, stole all their goods, and kidnapped the women and children because Shechem raped their sister Dinah. Or when Jesus was crucified by the Romans and Jewish leaders but then everybody for all time was punished by having to hear Christians go on and on and on about their stupid religion. Or, the most egregious injustice perpetrated by the Bible, masturbators being told they're sinning because God and Judah got mad at Onan for disobeying a contract to get his brother's wife pregnant but instead he pulled out and spunked all over the ground. How the fuck that got interpreted as "God hates masturbating" as opposed to "God hates people who break contracts with their fathers just to fuck their brother's hot wife" is the worst injustice of them all! I won't be labeled a sinner for a bunch of religious idiots and their poor comprehension of a Biblical story!

This bitch is 60% hair.

Obviously I used "bitch" in that caption as in "I'm so fucking jealous of the way this woman is serving cunt that I'm going to act like an envious little twat" and not in a misogynistic way at all!

Now that that's cleared up, let's see how John Stewart chooses to murder Star Sapphire. Or attempts to murder her, apparently. I just glanced at the cover of Issue #24 and the header reads, "The Death of Star Sapphire!" So maybe I should just skip this issue?

Damn! This chick is horny. No way I'm skipping this shit.

I would like to go back to high school (as the young person I was! Not as an old man!) and do it all over again now that I realize just how horny all the women around me had been. You think you're the only one whose loins are throbbing. Meanwhile, there's that meek shy girl you barely noticed sitting beside you frothing up her underwear because you've glanced at her three times.

When I first read this at 20, I was probably afraid of Star Sapphire. Now I think I'm in love with her.

Why is Hal so frightened by a strong woman who knows exactly what she wants in the space bedroom? Hal probably thinks men should always make the passes and control the fuck-purse strings. I don't know what a fuck-purse is but you know what? I'd probably fuck it.

Hal flees because he can't get Carol Ferris to stop pawing at his dick with her space sword. After that, the comic book changes scenes so we learn more about the boring space army that purchased Star Sapphire to do their fighting for them. While telling his story, he remembers how he tied Star Sapphire up and she was so turned on that she rubbed one out.

This comic book is so horny I feel that it's sexually harassing me at this point.

I'm just beginning to understand that people calling the violet band of the emotional spectrum "love" are just being polite. The actual emotion is obviously horniness. Is that an emotion?

I'm tempted to ask why Star Sapphire even cares about Hal Jordan specifically but that just leads me back to the basic philosophical question: why do any women care about men? We're disgusting assholes. And that's not even me trying to be feminist (because feminism isn't about hating men. Duh!). That's me having experienced "guys" my entire life! Women can't fully understand just how awful it is when men forgive something as "locker room talk." Because believe me. Locker room talk was foul and disgusting and caused me to get my thirteen-year-old man boobs grabbed from behind. Anybody who uses "locker room talk" as a justification for something a man says is a fucking monster who actually takes part in "locker room talk." The real translation of "locker room talk" is "being a hideously monstrous fuckbag who loves to torture anybody who seem as if they can't fight back." I only had my little boy titties grabbed once because I freaked the fuck out and turned into a tornado of arms and, um, titties. But that didn't mean I was all, "Ha ha! You guys are hilarious! What a great bunch of guys you are!" Later in high school, my friend Irene began dating one of the guys who grabbed at my little boy titties and I treated him like shit the one time she brought him around. I made sure he wasn't welcome in our group. And I explained to her exactly who that fuckbag was. She didn't date him for long.

Oh! What I was trying to say was this: Hal Jordan must really know how to serve dick if Star Sapphire is this into him.

Kreon refuses to use his army to fight the war with the Quahoogaloos. He will only continue the war if his two main chess pieces are Hal Jordan and Star Sapphire. Seems weird but then who am I to judge the mind of an alien who looks exactly like a human and speaks English and keeps women in boxes? Seems arrogant to try.

I'm no longer horny. She took the dirty talk a little too far.

Hal almost brings Carol Ferris out of Star Sapphire by blasting his ring point blank into her face. But she quickly comes to her senses and punches him in the jaw before wrapping her legs around him and choking him out.

I wish I were more experienced with women because I can't tell if they're fighting or fucking now.

Before Hal and Carol can finish whatever verb they're doing to each other, Kreon and Flicker both find them. Flicker tries to capture Star Sapphire but Kreon stops him. This causes them to have a little tiff and a falling out as business partners. It's not pretty. Flicker flounce teleports out of the ship after fucking up the pilot with his whip. Hopefully he's off to go bother Firestorm or Blue Devil where he belongs.

Brik, playing the part of new interested girlfriend to Hal, rescues him and spends a number of panels telling Hal what a fucking bitch Carol is and how she doesn't deserve Hal and how Hal needs to move on and how extremely good rock vagina tastes. She also mentions that she called the other Green Lanterns to come help deal with Star Sapphire.

I know I should make some crass joke about Hal's sudden concern for John's feelings about the murderer of his wife but all I can think is, "How did Pat Broderick makes Brik's rock tits look so soft?"

Why is everybody in this comic book so horny? I don't want to read about horny people written by Gerard Jones!

Hal realizes he needs to protect Star Sapphire from John. It's at the moment when Hal sees that he needs to fight John Stewart to protect the asshole he loves (because Star Sapphire is an asshole and also because her asshole is super sweet) that Hal Jordan realizes he's hired a bunch of weak jerks as Green Lantern. So he hires Boodika on the spot to kick some fucking ass. Brik gets super jealous. Who wouldn't when your name is "Brik" and her name is "Boodika." I know which one I'd flirt with at the party.

I'm kidding. I wouldn't flirt with any of them at a party. I'd probably be alone on the porch with the party host's cat on my lap.

Brik and AA finally pass out from being stabbed in the stomach by Star Sapphire many, many pages ago so when John arrives much faster than any of the other Green Lantern recruits, Hal realizes he's going to have to finally deal with the baggage from his past. That baggage being how his girlfriend killed his best bud's wife and which he decided nobody should ever talk about ever again. John probably didn't realize that was weird because John wound up having to feel super duper guilty about getting everybody on an entire planet killed. But who cares about that now? He's got a wife killer to kill! And Hal Jordan's dead body to step over to do it!

Green Lantern #23 Rating: A. Was this an A comic book? I don't know. I don't fucking care, really. But I really enjoyed how much violence Star Sapphire wanted to add to her fucking. That intrigued me. But only in a voyeuristic way! I don't want to get hurt while nutting! That sounds antithetical to the whole nutting thing. I really have to read these stupid comic books quicker if I'm to make any headway in the twenty or so short boxes of old comics I've been meaning to re-read before I die. Maybe I should write shorter reviews like when I read Marv Wolfman's The New Teen Titans! But then I sometimes think, "Those were so bad! I wish I'd written more while reading them! Just imagine how many of Marv Wolfman's feelings I could have hurt! Ha ha! I'm a monster!"

Green Lantern #22 (March 1992)

+5 Sword of Purple Polka Dots

I'm currently reading Robert E. Howard's original Conan short stories while also rewatching Game of Thrones so if you checked the Task Manager of my mind, my CPU would be running Dungeons & Dragons at 98%. I'm desperate to revisit my Zweihänder campaign reimagined as a Dungeons & Dragons campaign. It wouldn't so much be reimagined as be a continuation of the campaign just set further down the timeline of the "island" it took place on. Oh, I've also been rewatching the original '70s Land of the Lost and realizing how many parallels it has with Lost and subconsciously incorporating its themes into my Zweihänder campaign (which already has a few nods to Lost in it). After I rewatch Land of the Lost, I'm going to re-rewatch it and write about it. It's pretty fascinating for a kids show.

I've also been transferring my The New Teen Titans reviews from Tumblr to Blogger so that the current links I have for them don't direct to entirely different site that's far worse for these kinds of review posts. I've been changing and adapting them but posting them to the date they were originally written. So if you're interested in reading about how much I actually hated that series (but didn't realize how much I hated it at the time because I thought Marv Wolfman was simply writing the definitive version of Dick Grayson and that version was a whiny shit), you can find the links HERE. I've only done the first twenty but am looking to do ten at a time every other day or so. So keep checking back!

What I haven't been doing is reading comic books! I blame Hal Jordan and my lack of interest in his space cop adventures. Reality is already full of cops who act without thinking for me to give a shit about a fantastic one with the ultimate weapon of power and an subconscious hatred of women. Unless it's purely conscious. But I don't think it is. I'll at least give him the benefit of that doubt, what with him being such a great Western-style hero and all.

Was that last sentence sarcastic? It may have been. My sarcasm and cynicism meters are so broken from having lived fifty years in the United States of America that I can't tell anymore. Like, I do love westerns and the lone hero types who act as needed and risk their lives for others. But they're also mostly subconscious women haters when they're not overt women haters. Probably also racist. And would throw up at the thought of a fat, veiny dick going into another man's mouth. Mmm. That sounds like a candy bar commercial crying out to be made. Probably Snickers. Are Snickers still thick and veiny?

Currently the new recruit and potential new recruit Green Lanterns are chasing after Flicker and Space J. Jonah Jameson on Hal's orders. I think one of the new recruits is based on Tweety Bird.

AA would have made a terrible Nazi.

My observation of AA simply means he has the potential to be my friend. The first thing I ask myself when I meet somebody is, "Would this person make a good Nazi?" And if the answer is "no", I give them a chance. My second question is, "Would this person be a good citizen in Asimov's Foundation?" And if the answer is, "No, they're basically the Mule," then they become my best friend in the whole world. My third question is, "Do they believe Ayn Rand is a genius philosopher and writer?" And since I've already answered the first question about being a good Nazi, I probably don't have to even ask that one. Only people who would make a good Nazi think Ayn Rand was a genius.

Listen, brother. If you're read Anthem and you think it's a great work of genius and not a fucked up, illogical, misogynistic piece of shit where the main character acts like a deluded child and believes that everything they learned and gained they did by themselves, you might have the reading comprehension of a person who enjoys Ayn Rand. Sure that was a cyclical argument! But that's because it was meant as a major burn!

Awesome! The Green Lanterns, who have amazing willpower, will attempt to avoid masturbating for 22 pages!

That last caption was me assuming that everybody still has Seinfeld burned into their cultural memory. If you don't, forget about it. Just try to picture Hal Jordan trying not to masturbate. He could probably go for years with his great willpower. Maybe he has! Maybe that's why he acts like he's so pent up!

Wait a second. Isn't it canon that Batman doesn't do cunnilingus? Is it also DC canon that their characters don't jerk off?

I just noticed that the ship exiting subspace looks sort of like a boner.

The space battle Brik, Kworri, and AA find themselves at the edge of consists of the Quahooga and the Tebis. They're both clients of Space J. Jonah Jameson because he doesn't have any ideals except making money. Not that "making money" is an ideal. But some people think it is. Some people think "making money" gives purpose and meaning to their lives. Some people think "making money" itself is a moral good and a peak philosophy. But then, some people are simply assholes.

Kreon, the commander of the Tebis army, seems upset with the prospect of Space Mercenary LinkedIn selling slaves to both sides of a battle. But Flicker is all, "If it were up to me, I would only sell to you! Invest in my business, Better Space Mercenary LinkedIn, and I will only sell to you!" For some reason, Kreon likes the sound of this business model. He was just saying, before Flicker appeared, how Flicker lacks any ethics and now he takes him at his word that his headhunting business won't practice the same unethical tactics as Space J. Jonah Jameson's business? Kreon may be a genius at waging space wars but he's an idiot in the business room.

Remember how I wrote that Gerard Jones was going to be throwing down some really great satire about business and capitalism? This is a good example! Flicker is just a shitty venture capitalist trying to get some idiot to invest in a company that already exists by pointing out how his company, which is totally different (but isn't! Just wanted to clarify that! It's part of the satire!), will break the status quo of temp agency slave traders. It's pretty spot on!

Seven pages in and Hal Jordan has yet to jerk it. He's going to win for sure.

For some reason, I've inextricably linked masturbation and the Green Lantern Corps. For another reason (my terrible memory), I can't remember exactly how. I think it had something to do with Krona observing a hand jerking off to create the universe. But then the hand turned out to be the Anti-monitor's hand and it was trying to destroy the universe so the Green Lantern Corps was created to stop all masturbation (which is why it is based on willpower), being that it was both an act of creation and an act of destruction. But then in The New 52, Krona observed the jerk off hand had a Green Lantern ring on it and he was all, "Oh no! Green Lantern's are masturbating!" But then it turned out the hand was Volthoom's hand and he really, really wanted to stop all masturbation so he invented a new corps, The Third Army, that not only had great willpower but also no genitalia to fiddle with. At this point, the Green Lantern Corps learned that masturbation was needed to save the universe from Volthoom and his anti-masturbation army. Guy Gardner was the perfect Green Lantern for this battle because he jerks it all the time and all over the place and, most of all, all over Ice's face and body and butthole.

Here's Guy Gardner trying to keep the Third Army from stealing all of the Green Lantern's cocks so the GLC stop masturbating.


And here's a picture of Guy Gardner losing The Contest during this issue.

Fucking a motorcycle is technically masturbation, so don't come at me with all the motorcyclephile shit in the comments.

AA continues to prove how totally not a Nazi he is.

It's really getting on Hal's nerves.

At heart, all Space Cops are authoritarians. So Hal really would rather have a good Nazi as a new member than some ethically minded jerk who questions every fucking order. Get out of here with that nonsense, AA! You're going to get somebody killed! And by "somebody," I mean a space cop. Obviously you're trying to get non-space cops not killed which is entirely the wrong way to think if you're a space cop. You don't want to wind up with a green bullet hole in your back during the next space battle, do you?!

While Hal Jordan uses Corps resources to help him track down his ex-lover whom he wants to make his ex-ex-lover, Flicker whips the head off of Space J. Jonah Jameson.

You don't expect this level of violence and gore from a guy in a ruffled collar.

Brik questions why she should help Hal find Star Sapphire when it just means she's helping Hal find somebody else to love. She also realizes every new recruit they find means Hal will be headed back to Earth and away from her. Why is nobody looking at the big picture anymore?! They're all consumed with their own feelings. Except for AA! He's the only one concerned about space justice. What the fuck is has this comic become? Space Degrassi Junior High?!

Kworri discovers Star Sapphire's location by destroying a Teban space ship and "questioning" a few of the surviving crew. Hal praises him for his good detective work of murder and destruction because I guess Hal thinks the ends justifies the means, especially when the ends are "find the vagina I love to put my penis in." When Hal learns that Star Sapphire is kept imprisoned in crystal on Commander Kreon's ship, he rushes off halfcocked (ha ha! That's a chubby dick joke!) to find her, leaving the new recruits to float around thinking, "Is this standard Green Lantern Corps tactics?!"

Oh shit. I just learned that AA is female! Whoops. How was I supposed to know?! She presents as a boring rock creature. That read male to me! Maybe I should have realized that her logical, well-thought out arguments for justice and peace were way more feminine than everybody else's "let's fuck shit up" ideology. At first I thought AA's need to question every order was the reason she wouldn't be picked as the new recruit. But now that I've found out she's female, Hal's got an even better reason not to pick her. Although I think Hal will realize by the end of this story arc that he needs somebody who questions more than somebody who follows every order. Plus AA and her willingness to question will be the reason they recover Star Sapphire (spoiler!).

Hal Jordan finds Star Sapphire but only then realizes he's fallen into Flicker's trap! Flicker threatens to kill Star Sapphire if Hal doesn't do as he says and Hal is all, "Okay! Okay! You've got me! I'll put down the ring slowly if you let her go!" Kworri and Brik are all, "Okay, yeah! That seems reasonable! Let's surrender and give Flicker everything he wants just so he doesn't harm Hal's evil ex!"

Thankfully AA continues to have John Stuart Mill at the front of her mind.

AA throws a space urn at Flicker's head with the use of her ring while Hal screams, "No!" But Hal is wrong and realizes he's wrong when the urn causes Flicker to miss with his laser. Hal takes Flicker down while Brik blasts Flicker's whip, leaving him impotent.

As an owner of a penis, this panel makes me extremely uncomfortable.

Flicker manages to teleport away because the Green Lanterns apparently have no ability to stop somebody from doing that. It's disappointing but capturing Flicker wasn't Hal's main goal anyway. They now have Star Sapphire and that's all Hal really care about anyway. It's time to flee!

Once away from the space battle, Kworri demands Hal choose the new recruit. And of course he chooses AA. He explains he knew from the beginning she was the right choice. But I think he really only chose her because she helped save Star Sapphire while Kworri just agreed with everything Hal said. Brik appreciates Hal's explanation that somebody who questions his leadership often helps more than somebody who follows orders and resolves to try to use her own judgment too. But she's totally in love with Hal so I don't see that happening too often. Star Sapphire agrees with me after she wakes up and decides it's time to kill Hal and his new girlfriend.

I would scan another picture of Star Sapphire attacking Hal on the final page but I think the cover had that covered already.

Green Lantern #22 Rating: B+. AA really is a standout character within the new Green Lantern Corps. Although more so than the others? I don't know. Gerard Jones has done a really fantastic job of building up these new recruits from one or two crumbs of characters to make them individuals who stand out within the group structure. Even Kworri would make a good new recruit when they eventually need even more Green Lantern Corps cannon fodder. Sometimes the old Corps just felt like a bunch of weird creatures and a handful of good looking alien females whom Hal could fuck. Gerard Johns has taken the concept of aliens in an army and worked it from a much deeper and less superficial place. Sure, their looks often tie in to their personalities but it's those personalities which really make them stand out. I can't wait for a story where the new mushroom Green Lantern farts cosmic consciousness during a lunch on Oa and everybody starts tripping balls, only to eventually become much more sensitive and empathetic beings!