Art By: Bernard Chang
Cover Price: $2.99
Release Date: August 13, 2014
Love Hurts
Last time we dove into the Green Lantern Corps, we saw the end of the Uprising battle as the Corps overpowered the Durlan menace. But the victory didn't last too long because we found out that Fatality was a Durlan impostor this whole time and after consuming one of the living energy Zezzites, the Durlan Fatality became a Daxamite complete with Daxamite powers. It took the entire Corps, but our heroes were able to take the last Durlan/Daxamite/Fatality down and John Stewart swore to track down his lady love. So let's see how his pursuit is going in this time of peace for the Green Lantern Corps.
Explain It!:
Our story begins with John Stewart questioning the Durlan doppelganger about where it stashed Fatality. It got pretty tense and luckily for us John Stewart fans, our hero stayed his hand and kept the prisoner alive when it wouldn't give him any details. Outside the science cell we find out that the Durlan Green Lantern, Daggle was sent to watch John and after getting nowhere with the prisoner, Daggle gives John some info about a group of smugglers that the Durlans used to work with and our hero makes his way to his first real lead.
Meanwhile Daggle is given the responsibility to deal with all the villains that once occupied the science cells that were released to help deal with the Durlan menace. So the Corps being a group to stick to their word tells the once bad guys that they are free to go. All except Hunger Dog that promised Daggle that he'd help him search for his long lost Lantern partner that went missing while in deep cover. The Guardians had promised to find the missing Lantern, but they're too busy being dead and all.
On the planet Cheorg, the Durlan accomplices The Kroloteans discuss that since the Durlans have been defeated, they aren't going to pay them anymore to keep the species they've collected and so they take off and leave the cage doors open, you know being humane and all. Now we see that Fatality is alive when she kills an alien that planned on eviscerating her. So I guess that's a good thing. John eventually makes his way here after getting the info from a smuggler and when he comes in contact with Fatality we find out she's not the same woman she was at the beginning of Uprising. Now dig this fucked upness. It turns out that she never loved John. The Star Sapphire ring held her prisoner and forced the love upon her and now that she's free she can't understand how John could ever think she'd love him after he destroyed her world. So holy shit the Zamarons are even bigger monsters than I thought, pushing their love drug throughout the universe. Now that Fatality is free of it's influence, she plans on killing the Zamarons for doing that to her and John tries to plead for his love in vain.
In the end Fatality leaves to seek her revenge and John is left having his heart ripped from his chest (metaphorically) and he does what I suspect anyone does when they're alone and they still have the ability to feel feelings in this situation. He has a massive temper tantrum while thinking about the time he shared with the woman he thought loved him.
So that's it for this month's Green Lantern Corps, make sure you're here next issue and see if love can kick John Stewart in the balls some more in the world of Five Years From Now. See you then.
Bits and Pieces:
I really dug this epilogue to Uprising dealing with the hunt for Fatality and the twist ending blew me away. This continues to be a great if not the best Lantern title going on right now and I recommend it to anyone who is a Lantern fanboy. While I thought the hunt for Fatality would last for awhile, I guess with Futures End and GodHead coming it had to be a single issue conclusion and surprisingly it doesn't hurt the story at all. Go check it out and see how John Stewart's love life is going.
8.5/10
So now John Stewart is a rapist?
ReplyDeletelol...kind of
DeleteI'm really amazed this hasn't gotten more press one of DC's main ethnic heroes turns out to be a rapist is kind of important.
DeleteI was discussing this in a comic store this past weekend and no one else put 2 and 2 together that. I get the feeling Van Jensen didn't either.
No......... god no..... This is from August of last year and John Stewart was being played...........no rape.
ReplyDeleteno, straight up rapist
DeleteJohn Stewart was aware that rings affect peoples personalities(red, orange, indigo). His first wife was killed by a woman that was controlled by a star sapphire. Fatality used to want him dead until the ring was on her finger. So he knew that her judgment was "impaired" and still had relations with her, he'd be convicted in the United States.
DeleteI really think your're trying to find a problem where one doesn't exist
DeleteI think you failed to read into the comic the full repercussions. She flat out told him that she didn't want it. How could you not address that. Other reviews did.
DeleteI backed my logic up with facts. You would expect the reviewer to have done the same. Other sites managed to draw this same conclusion.
DeleteIt's funny that after your comments, I went back to look at reviews and I did see IGN call it out, but not many more. However, I did see that Van Jensen might have been showing that it was John Stewart that was actually the rape victim of the story:
Deletehttp://www.craveonline.com/comics/interviews/731911-comic-con-2014-robert-venditti-van-jensen-on-green-lanterns-flash
So since John Stewart is also a Star Sapphire now, if anyone has sex with him, he's being raped?
DeleteI would get him to take the ring off first Eric.
DeleteJim my point of all of this is that Van Jensen is a poor writer who failed to see the consequences of his story. I think you are right they wanted to make John the victim. He's not. He should have known she was not herself and had sex with her anyway.
Deleteif you know a woman who says she hates you. You see her take drugs and now wants to have sex with you. if you did you will probably be convicted once she is off the drugs.
DeleteVan Jensen made John Stewart a rapist. I want this whole storyline wiped out.
I don't know, when my girlfriend is off her medication, she has a tendency to hate me more than when she's on them.
Deleteoh, I know how that is!
DeleteJohn Stewart was aware that rings affect peoples personalities(red, orange, indigo). His first wife was killed by a woman that was controlled by a star sapphire. Fatality used to want him dead until the ring was on her finger. So he knew that she her judgment was "impaired" and still had relations with her, he'd be convicted in the United States.
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