Green Lantern #7 Preview

[Mutatis_Mutandis]

For me it feels like there's just a whole lot of nothing going on in this book. It doesn't feel big, it doesn't feel important to Hal - he's bumming around again on Earth but not so much in choosing to drift but because he's lost, immediately at odds with how he was portrayed in his last solo book; he's going after Carol again and quite aggressively too; he's just going through the motions, falling back on something familiar but it's a regression from his last run; so why should we care. This isn't hypercompetent, beyond trauma, drifter as a life choice, beatnik space cop Hal. It's Geoff Johns redux vol 4. I'm of the mind that main continuity Hal's character has taken a dip into caricature since Rebirth in 2004 with Tom King and Grant Morrison being the only ones who actually had something new, something bold to say about Hal and work with him as a proper character. It's noticeable how pervasive nostalgia is enveloping the book, Adams doing Johns-esque and superficially Silver Age writing but without the actual creativity of Silver Age GL, Tomasi doing Super Sons but they're bad in the first backups, Marz writing Kyle again in upcoming backups, Humphries writing Jess again in upcoming backups... stuck in cycles, nothing new... at least the art is phenomenal. I hope I'm proven wrong and the book finds purpose in upcoming issues.

Agreed with all of this, I was interested at the start but it's all been a big nothingburger of a run since then, the art is great but I don't find anything interesting about either the characterization or the story.

[Frontier]

I'm probably going to be the odd man out to prefer Adams Hal to Morrison because he feels more like a person to me rather than an admittedly cool archetype.

[Mantis-Ray]

I have also been enjoying this well for the most part.

Its pretty slow yeah but I like the general vibes its going through, which is helped by the fantastic art.