Green Lantern Corps 39

Solicitation : Just when things couldn't look any darker after the death and chaos of the Sciencell riot, Blackest Night descends on Oa! The black rings tear into the planet and the Lantern Crypt causing all the dead Corps members to rise and wreak havoc as a new and deadlier battle threatens to engulf not only the Corps, but the Universe itself!

Written by Pete Tomasi Art By Patrick Gleason

Synopsis : We start off with Guy and Kyle in space. This is just after they attended The Tribute Day on Earth. Guy discusses how he spent time with Ice whereas Kyle was at the Valhalla cemetery with Alan Scott at Jade's grave paying his respects.Kyle reveals that the Star Sapphire's vision of his love did not show him Jade, to which Guy says it was Soranik. Kyle knows its against the laws to which Guy says that The Guardians are making them up anyway and the fact is that Soranik is alive so he should be with her. They meet up with Green Lantern Soranik Natu and Green Lantern Iolande. They go over The Sinestro problem at Korugar. Kyle and Guy are on the way for clean up after the Sciencell riot. Suddenly the Black rings burst into the scene and smacks Guy in The Face ! Hilarious..........

Arisia is on Daxam, where the now super-powered beings are doing what they will and are killing off Sinestro Corpsmen without remorse or care. DO Note that in Emerald Eclipse Sodam Yat gave his life to make the red sun of Daxam a yellow one giving everyone powers. Arisia calls them Racists and goes up to see Ion inside the sun., she says its too late for words and she flies off.

We see Kryb's "babies" hunger and ask for their mother while she is on Zamaron being freed from The Sapphires. Sinestro is on Korugar and he makes his dominance clear and says that he is The Savior Of Korugar and not anyone else before him (Sinestro or Soranik) and now the Sinestro Corps will be renamed The Mongul Corps ! Lets see...

We cut back to The Four who are trying their best to stop The Black rings who zip through without a problem. Iolande and Soranik rush to the hospital to aid all the weak and injured. Kyle and Guy decide to set up a rallying point to stop the Black Rings and inform Kilowog. They tell him that the Rings tore through the constructs like paper and that they are buzzing like flies in space. Kilo orders everyone to keep at full shield strength. The rings ignore them and go into the crypt where the rings begin to resurrect the dead. Morro is helpless as Katma Tui, Jack Chance, Tomar Re and countless others of the Fallen Lanterns Rise !

On The Outside, The GL's see the crypt fall as Morro survives and we cut back to the spread in Blackest Night 1 with Gut going "What The **** !" Guy wonders how any of this could get any worse and suddenly Black Lantern Jade arrives and grabs Kyle by the neck to which we end this installment of  Blackest Night in Oa...

Review : OK, so another of filler sorta issue. We end at nearly the same moment As Blackest night showed us on Oa with the Rings rising. I would have surely liked more story and less of wasted pages. Guy and Kyle are awesome as usual. The thing is that The Fleshing out of the Corps from their short appearance in the First Issue , So big ups.
The art is cartoony but still looks good. Patrick has upped his game for this event. Lets see where we go from here as The Green Lantern Corps faces and falls into Ultimate Darkness .

Story : 8.7
Art : 8.2

Two Hearts are truly better than one..............................

Next In Blackest Night: The Hawks are dead, Who Will Die ? Who Will Rise ? A Certain Sea King makes his "triumphant" return as Hal and Barry fight the visitor from Mars as The Master Of Death creeps into us. Death will be Us.