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Green Lantern #10 Full Review

Artist(s): Liam Sharp

Colorist(s): Steve Oliff

Letterer: Tom Orzechowski

Publisher: DC Comics

Genre: Action, Drama, Superhero, Thriller

Published Date: 08/07/2019

There is no doubt that Grant Morrison’s place among the best comic book writers is guaranteed, but that only makes much more impressive his Green Lantern run: the fact that he has nothing to prove at this point of his career and he is still churning out quality stories with a level of consistency than most young guns would like to have.

Teaming up with talented and underrated artist Liam Sharp, they have produced a very high quality run with Hal Jordan as the sole main character of the Green Lantern Corps and that is no small feat–along with Batman, this franchise must be the one that has enjoyed some of the best runs over the last 25 years.

So Morrison does what he does best: balancing the modern and action-packed with the weirdness and epic scope that has defined his work throughout the years. So this issue #10 proved to be one of the most Morrison-fueled of the run so far, with a lot of the Multiverse elements that the Scotsman loves so much… and we can’t blame him for that, since he makes it work like a charm here.

Plot.

Hal Jordan is stranded in a magical world where he has gathered a team of versions of himself from the Multiverse, which all are Green Lanterns but with different touches, such as one Jordan being a hippie, another one having a Batman motif or another one with a flashlight, so you can imagine the type of crowd he has surrounded himself with.

Here we also get to have the presence of the Tangent Lantern, who already existed since the 1990s, so that is a nice touch, and she contributes to face the cosmic threat that is going to try to attack the Multiverse.

As you can imagine, in typical Morrison, things only get weirder and weirder, with the appearance of the Anti-Matter Lantern and various other elements that we are going to save so you can enjoy because, trust us, it’s worth the patience.

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How good was it?

A Morrison story without craziness and a Multiverse concept feels somewhat incomplete, so it’s nice that we can finally get that in this Green Lantern run. Kidding aside, Morrison has put a lot of effort and care in this project and it shows; all the different arcs that we have enjoyed in just ten issues shows us a writer that had a lot of stories to tell and he delivers with the kind of passion, class and experience that we’re used to from him.

In this particular issue, the writing is very well done because while there are a lot of different things going on and there is definitely a high concept approach from Morrison, he still makes sure that the comic is accessible enough and that is something that separates him from the vast majority of his contemporaries.

It’s a grand, epic and overwhelming issue, but it’s written in a way that you can enjoy, especially when you consider the way that all the Lanterns interact with one another, especially Hippie Lantern and Batman Lantern, which only makes things a lot more fun for us readers.

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The art.

I’m not making any big revelations: Liam Sharp is a phenomenal artist. Very few artists in the Big Two can implement the level of detail and quality that he ads to his pages, which is something that truly fits with Morrison’s high concept stories and the great cosmic scope that the Green Lantern title tends to deal with.

I would like to point out how Sharp drew every Lantern: he injects them enough life and personality that you would think these are all well-stablished DC characters that have been around for decades, which is something that came to my mind while I was reading it.

I always say that art is and should be a big deal in comic books because it is a visual medium and it should attract the potential from the moment he or she views at the book, which is something that Sharp’s accomplish in tremendous fashion: the level of quality and detail allows you to take your time to enjoy every single element that he has added there.

Sharp has a long career, but I would dare to say that this Green Lantern run is his crowning achievement and something that should live on throughout the years.

Overall.

One thing that the comic book industry has been sorely lacking in recent times is that writer-artist chemistry and relationship that lasts for many issues and years, so when I see a tandem such as the one that Morrison and Sharp have created, I can’t help but feel overjoyed when they produce quality material–The Green Lantern is one of the strongest titles in comics right now and this issue #10 is one of the best so far.

I wouldn’t say that is the high point of the run (issue #7’s experimental, passionate and epic approach is still my favorite), but it’s definitely quite enjoyable, very well written and with many of the tropes that has made Morrison one of the best comic book writers in the business. Add to that Sharp’s wonderful art and you have a remarkable example of what a comic book can and should be.

A great issue made by a great team.

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SCORE: 8.7

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