This issue is actually the end of a story arc, so I came in cold to the story. It seems that someone has been targeting the families of Green Lantern Corps members, causing turmoil and unrest among the GL's.

Anyway, Guy Gardner and Kyle Rayner have been put on the trail of the bad guys, and apparently some of the old Yellow Lanterns of the Sinestro Corps were responsible.

A newer Lantern named Saarek is brought in to speak to the dead, a power he has that has nothing to do with the ring. Many of the GL's are actually skeptical of this ability and show open disdain for it.

We also see a bunch of hysterical Lanterns determined to turn in their rings and rush home to their families, kind of like a mob scene.

Needless to say, the villains are captured, and it turns out that Saarek has caught the attention of the Guardians...or at least one of them.

My thoughts on this issue are that I made the right decision a year ago. I just don't care for this.

It's a shame, too, because I'm a huge sci-fi fan, and Green Lantern should be the perfect comic fix for that, but instead Marvel's Nova has taken the top spot there.

The problems are many-fold here, and actually they are the same problems that made me drop both this comic and the main Green Lantern title.

Essentially, the whole situation is far too anthropomorphized. By that I mean that too many human traits and personality issues are written onto what should be completely alien, mind bending adventures.

GL Corps especially suffers from this. It reads like a bad 1-hour cop drama, and they literally take the "Green Lanterns as police of the universe" thing way too far. They mode it too much off of our own real life Police institutions, and in doing so they water down the whole concept and make it too mundane and predictable.

I personally believe that the Green Lanterns should not behave like frightened humans. These people are supposed to be the best of the best. They should handle most everything with calm, competent resolve and ingenuity.

That's not the direction that Geoff Johns and Peter Tomasi have taken. Unfortunately this is lowest common denominator stuff that is easily accessible, yet not very high quality.

Tomasi is also the writer of Nightwing, which I also have serious problems with. I gave him yet another chance, but it's obvious that I just don't enjoy the man's work, so I won't be buying anymore of it.

Green Lantern Corps is something I'd recommend to someone looking for more light-hearted fare, where nothing of any consequence really happens, and no real innovation occurs.