Green Lantern Corps #27

One-sentence summary: I had my doubts about this book post-Sinestro Corps, seeing as how dominatingly brilliant that was, but Tomasi delivers a good superhero cop book.

I really like what they've done with Green Lantern Corps. There's a lot of pitfalls in a book like this (to name a few: letting it become a series of one-shots about side characters from Green Lantern, letting it become all about a major side character, like Guy Gardner or someone, or, most obvious of all, letting it play second-fiddle to the main Green Lantern book). I think it's a credit to every writer who has been on it that these haven't happened. Instead, what we have is a comic that presents a chance to tell some unique stories.

At its heart (at least right now), Green Lantern Corps is a cop book. Sure, they have superpowers, but so do most the people we see them chasing, which evens things up. Yes, there are great sci-fi elements in the stories (expressed in the art wonderfully), and the villains tend to be on the super-villain side of things, but I defend that it's still a cop book, with all the worries of the characters being like those in most crime drama.

This latest story goes with endangerment of families, which could be interesting. It also spent some time with old and new subplots, one of which provided some necessary light-heartedness. All in all, I'm excited about the issues to come, but this issue was more of a nice segue between two arcs, which isn't bad in it of itself, but...it's tough to have strong feelings about a hallway. That being said, the art was great as usual. Just keep an eye out for later issues of this arc. It's probably safe to assume it will be good. That's just a great thing to be able to say.