Since the Blackest Night mini-series began, Green Lantern is the one comic that has been tightly tied in with the story - and here you have a comic that should have been titled Blackest Night #7.5.It focuses on the battle raging on two fronts - one with the White Lantern, Sinestro, who gets a quick history lesson about the true origins of the colorful emotion powerhouses that form the foundation of the Lantern Corps.
The other front is happening in orbit, as the biggest Black Lantern of them all - a planet - is threatening destruction, and a team of Lanterns must stop it.
The story is provided by the architect of the Blackest Night series, Geoff Johns, and even though there's a lot going on here, only the origin story is of real interest. Everything else is just marking time to the end of the story, which leads us into the final issue of Blackest Night with nothing really different from the end of Blackest Night #7.
The art by Doug Mahnke (and numerous inkers) is outstanding as always, with some powerful depictions of Earth-shaking events. He does herculean work here, depicting a pile of characters and big events on virtually every page.
To be fair, there are a few panels where it's difficult to follow what's going on. For example, I'm not sure what the Lanterns are doing in that final double-page spread. But it does look impressive.
Still, this moves us toward the final resolution of this storyline, and it's one I'm looking forward to. Gonna be a heckuva clean-up party after this is all over.
Grade: A-
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