Green Lantern 143 - Grayven's Last Laugh

I'm here all week, make sure to take care of your waitresses.

Right now Kyle Rayner is the (terrestrial, masculine) Green Lantern.

The booklet begins with a frame story. We are in a secluded part of Europe, behind God's back and the iron curtain behind, where the people believe in myths. Here, some imaginary demons detain a miserable man, Alexander Nero.

Meanwhile in New York, Kyle and his partner, Jade restore the jokerfaced Statue of Liberty. But that much, they will not get away. Our jokerized super-evil currently is Grayven, son of Darkseid, evil lord of Apokolips (i.e. Orion's brother), who is dealing with the destruction of the cosmos, but now he wants to be stand-up comedian. He blows up all the stand-up owner theater, except the one which has been taken hostage by him. By which, he ensures the full house. The audience, however, does not appreciate his humor.

Fortunately, the Green Lantern does not let the connoisseurs suffer and removes Grayven from the stage. While Kyle is fighting with Grayven, Jade discovers that the theater is surrounded by sensor wires what lead to a hundred-megaton atomic bomb (or more precisely its apokolipsian counterpart). Kyle quickly closes Grayvent a concrete block and takes up the bomb into the air, where he locks it in a green sphere.

However, the blast is so powerful.

It destroys Kyle's body, only a green ghost shape is left of it.

And here, the main thread connects the frame story. Alexander Nero also sees the explosion what he looks a signal for himself which makes his imaginary chains fell off.

In the middle of the booklet, it is a five-page schmouze part in which Kyle's assistant, Terry Berg tells Kyle that he confessed to her mother to be gay.

- Your mom just come out and ask you?

- There was a Britney Spears commercial on and I said that I really liked her shoes. What was I going to say: "Wow, great boobs!"

Judd Winick's story actually is really good, although I have some problems with it. Mostly that it is not really cohesion between the different parts of the story, mostly the Terry's thread. I understand that such socially important problems should also be included in the story but perhaps not such far-fetched way. The other problem is the lot of text, Winick over-explains everything. Otherwise the text is good, not tiring, not annoying, just unnecessary. By the way, I can not believe that people says such: "if lying was a sport, you'd be in the French Club" and "You're swimming so deep in lake Sarcasm that I'm not following you."

Dale Eaglesham's draws are slightly rough, but otherwise excellent, realistic, eye-catching, dynamic enough, and even facial expressions are very well, so all is well.

The original Hungarian blog post is here.