I have finally got around to reading the fourth and final volume of Grant Morrisson's run on Green Lantern and have to say that each volume has been more progressively difficult to read and digest. His journey into the surreal possibilities of not just existence but what lies behind it and more comes to a complex if seemingly simple conclusion in this six part adventure.
Hal Jordan the hero at the centre of this tale starts off the first chapter by being dead but then he's been deceased at least three times to my knowledge and both destroyed and helped rebirth his creators, allies and even former opponents. So the reader has little to worry about here as he learns of the Ultra War which will turn everybody against everyone everywhere down to the last atom.
It will probably not be a spoiler for you the reader to learn that Hal returns to the land of living once again. Nobody thinks he'll take being dead lying down or for long either. There's a trial going on with Hyperman and his family being at the centre of a scandal caused by substance abuse. There are two Star Sapphires floating around from the Multiverse and we visit Universe 11 where women are in charge.
There's so much happening here with Morrison's obscurantist dialogue hardly helping but all the elements that made the Green Lantern what it is are present and fighting in this countdown to an ending.
I suspect these four volumes would read better consecutively in a short period of time rather than over the actual couple of years it took to write and publish this epic.
Rating 5 Stars ( Highly Recommended)
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