I'm bad with remembering various Lanterns so I'm sure that most of the Lanterns we saw were "names", but I'm not going to try and guess who each one was exactly. Anyway, key things that happened:
- Teen Lantern rushes to confront Sinesto and gets into a major fight against some military forces and 5 Yellow Lanterns. Surprising thing is that she manages to hold her own till mysterious Yellow Lantern (I suppose she is Jessica?) takes her out revealing that Teen Lantern is afraid of being alone.
- Simon to the rescue. He gets there in a "green ball" and is wearing some Iron Man armour with GL logo on it. Not really a match for our mysterious Yellow Lantern, but she lets them get away before Sinesto arrives.
- In second part of the story John organizes locals to leave the planet because slavers will return at some point again. They manage to reach the outpost that GLs built before going down.
- Some female Lantern is mad at John for all this and we get a video message from Kilowog calling for help. Oh and around 1 year has passed for John.
I liked first half of the book better, because John's parts felt a bit like a recap. You know, this happened, then this happened so now he is here without much happening "now". That being said I'm not a fan of Teen Lantern so its not like I loved first part either. Another weird thing to me was that it looks like other Lanterns also decided to go for the same look as John? Is it going to be established as some sort of "classic" GL uniform that they all wore before getting new costumes?
On the very positive side I liked the action. Teen Lantern was shown to be real powerful, but at the same time it never felt like she had any chance of winning since Sinestro never even left his room. So to me it managed to show her as really powerful and at the same time show that you simply don't rush into Korugar without getting your ass kicked.
Most surprising thing about this run for me is that I really like Simon in this, while I never cared about him at all before. I feel like under better artists (sorry!) that panel where he emerges from green ball could become an iconic image for him. It just looks very cool to me, you can immediately see that it is a GL related character, but at the same time he looks very unique compared to other Lanterns. So yeah, if this thing gets cancelled due to low sales and brushed under the carpet I hope that Simon keeps this direction.