Green Lanterns, Vol. 8: Ghosts of the Past

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JKRevell
Jamie RevellSupporter

The first of the two stories in this collection is quite good, with Seeley getting to grips with Jessica for a change. It's about an incident from her past, tied in with her becoming a Lantern, and is largely set inside a warped version of her memories of the event. The Justice League gets involved, although more as window-dressing than anything else and there's some use of the wider setting. It is, however, let down by Jessica being a bit dumb in getting herself into the situation in the first place... but, if you can get past that, it works well enough.

‘Being dumb', unfortunately, is very much the key theme in the second, slightly shorter, story, which sees Jessica pursued by the other Green Lanterns for a crime she's allegedly committed. Obviously, she hasn't, but this possibility doesn't even seem to occur to Hal and the others, making them look like prize pillocks until the explanation almost literally punches them in the face.

August 7, 2019Report this review