Grant Morrison (w) Liam Sharp (a)
The second collected volume of Grant Morrison's peptic take on Green Lantern begins with a warning not to beware the wizard Myrwhydden as a blue skinned girl wanders quietly trying not to wake him. She finds a man lying on the ground, his uniform that of a lantern beneath his cloak. They must not be here. They must go, there is danger and it is upon them.
It doesn't take the reader or the hero too long to realise that he is now trapped inside his dying ring with just a last vestige of power keeping him and his "companion " the AI of the ring alive. They are stranded in the far reaches of space with no battery anywhere near. There one hope is the wizard and a little bit of will power to reach safety.
Of course Hal makes it back as is expected and begins his return with a fight against drug pushers from another universe who are stealing what makes people human to get alien junkies high. I seem to remember a Dolph Lundgren movie where something similar happened but I digress.
This volume takes us through an adventure involving denizens of the multiverse who are fighting an anti-matter being of immense power who has crossed over. Even Vartox is dying in the wake of the attack.
In fact this is the tale which takes up most of the rest of this volume as we get to meet all sorts of heroes and characters from the multiverse. The appearance of a hippy lantern high on cannabis whose exchange with the disapproving Bat Lantern makes an amusing scene.
It's an exiting adventure spoiled only by the fact...it is to be continued in Green Lantern and the Blackstars.
Actually the story is jolted by the inclusion of a totally irrelevant story from the Green Lantern Annual. Personally I'd rather they left it out. The story is OK but out of place spoiling the flow of the story-line.
Rating: 4.5 Stars (Recommended)
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