Green Lantern issue 1

So yay!!! I got lucky an managed to get a copy of Green Lantern issue 1 that I had missed a couple of weeks ago!
So here we go! For those who don't know, this issue picks up right after the War of the Green Lanterns series. Krona, a Guardian castaway because he wished to know the origins of the universe, had captured all of the Corp's entities. And then used them to control the powers they wield. He also managed to control Mogo and cause rings to be sent to just anyone in the universe, and at the same time controlling the wielders causing a Green Lantern War. The end result, Hal Jordan overpowered Krona and killed him. This in turn scared the Guardian's as they set in place a safeguard that the rings cannot harm guardians, and Hal managed to kill one. For this they discharged him from the Corps, while Sinestro, who for showing strength without the power of his ring to aid Hal, was chosen by a Green Lantern ring once more, causing much outrage amongst the Corps as Sinestro has been considered an enemy of the Corps for a while now.
Warning I will be doing a complete story review of Green Lantern issue 1, if you don't want to spoil it for yourself, I suggest you get a copy read it then check out my review!!!

As you can see, Sinestro is now featured on the cover of issue 1 Green Lantern, as a Green Lantern.

PLOT:

We open with Sinestro reciting the oath of the GL, while in shackles from the Guardians. Despite the fact he does not want to be a GL, the Guardians say this is his chance at redemption (one he feels he doesn't need), and they tell him to protect his sector. After taking his power battery and leaving, Ganthet (known suporter of emotion and the Human GL's) announces his rejection of Sinestro who should not be allowed the honor of wearing the ring, to which the other Guardian's surround him and focus mental energy on his mind.

We are then taken to Hal Jordan, in his apartment being pestered for three months rent from his landlord, when he hears a shout for help. Looking out his window in the apartment across the way he sees a man attacking a woman. Jordan leaps from his balcony through the window and starts attacking the guy, not seeing the cameras and movie crew behind them filming.

We then see him in jail, Carol Ferris has bailed him out, they talk about his discharge from the Corps, and that Sinestro was chosen once more by the ring. Carol tells him he needs to start enjoying his new life without the Corps, and being a space cop. To which he asks her out to dinner.

Were then taken to Korugar, Sinestro's home planet, over run by members of his very own Sinsestro Corps, torturing his people. He him self though in space gets attacked by a member of the Sinestro Corps, who tries to report to Arkillo, that Sinestro is a GL once more, but Sinestro kills him, and destroys his ring before it can find a replacement.

At dinner with Hal and Carol, Hal states he has a question for her, asking to co-sign on a car loan. This angers Carol and she leaves. He walks back to his apartment to see an eviction notice on the door when Sinestro appears in front of him. Stating that if he wants his ring back he will do everything Sinestro says.

This is the end of the issue. I am curious to see where this is all headed? Is Hal done with the Corps forever? Or will Sinsestro allow him to get his ring back? What did the Guardians do to Ganthet? Will Sinestro continue to be a GL or will he return to his Sinestro Corps an the power of Fear?

We see some small changes, the emblem of the GL protrudes off the chest now more like a badge, the green of the suite has a metallic sheen to it, giving it the look of armor instead of tights.

And lastly, Carol Farris also known as Star Sapphire should be on Zamaron, as during the events of Brightest Day, she was named Queen. She does state that she has not wore the ring since she has been home?

Curious to see where the GL's are headed next. Could it be possible the very Guardians themselves will be enemies, they obviously are not thinking very clearly if they have let Sinestro, who has murdered many a GL become a GL once more?

Next up Red Lanterns issue 1.

Some Exciting News!!!

I was able to get my hands on the issues that I missed two weeks ago! So I will be going back and reviewing these titles over the next week as well.

I have not quite figured out how I am going to get this weeks titles, I can't fake another appointment like I did last week? hmmmmm.

But here are the titles I will hopefully be reviewing this week:

From Sep 14ths:
Green Lantern issue 1
Red Lanterns issue 1
Superboy issue 1
and unexpectedly
Batman and Robin issue 1

And this weeks titles (hopefully):
Green Lantern: New Guardians issue 1
Superman issue 1
Teen Titans issue 1

So wish me luck :D

Batgirl issue 1 the New 52

So I don't know if you can tell by now but I have a liking for female heroes. I don't know what it is but there is something really exciting about seeing a female kicking some ass. With males, its expected, they go to a bar and get drunk and have to fight. Girls aren't the same way, but when you have females that fight it ends up being pretty fierce!
Batgirl is also one of my favorite female super heroes. She is spurned on by a need for justice, shes not on a trip of vengeance like Batman, she didn't loose someone that made her wish to become a costumed vigilante, she just wanted to help bring justice!
The daughter of Police Commissioner Gordon, Barbra Gordon has gone through a lot. Her role as Batgirl was take from her when the Joker appeared at her door and shot her, the bullet passing straight through her spine causing the lower half of her body to be paralyzed. Now in a wheel chair she can no longer run the rooftops as Batgirl. She is a great computer hacker and becomes kinda a home base information specialist and computer hacker for the Justice League and more specifically created the Bird of Prey, an all female group. She took on the the secret identity of Oracle.
So now it appears that Batgirl has recovered from her paralysis and can once again run the rooftops of Gotham City.
Warning I will be doing a complete synopsis of Batgirl issue #1, if you don't want the story spoiled for you I suggest that you go pick up the copy and read issue, the come back and check out my review!

The cover of Batgirl issue 1, featuring Batgirl in her costume. While the style hasn't really changed they have modernized it by giving it an armored look, and the color of the inside of her cape is purple instead of its usual yellow.

Plot:

We start of with a mansion, a man seen watering his plants, while a hand of unknown belonging holds a list of names with one crossed off .

The man watering his lawn is approached by this person (the hand). The person tells him that he survived the sinking of a transport ship off of the coast of Portugal during routine maneuvers in calm conditions, and twenty seven of his fellow sailors did not. The man asks who they are, and the person flourishes their cape stating I am the Mirror, who then grabs the hose out of the mans hands and grabs the back of his head and basically drowns the man.

We are then shown as he crosses another name off the list, that Barbara Gordon is on the bottom of that list.

we are then taken to Gotham. Batgirl narrates that she must remember she is not Barbra Gordon, while she looks on to a situation she wishes to stop. Stating she looked over private police files when her father wasn't looking and found the criminals in the file, she grapples off the roof and states in a narrative pride, I am Batgirl!

We are then taken into an apartment, a man and woman are being held at gunpoint by a couple people wearing Halloween masks. These people are murderers and even take the time to show them there "scrapbook" of previous endeavors. While one looks out the window as there terrorizing the couple, he states its going to rain an forgot his jacket. He turns back to his friends not seeing the bat silhouette now approaching the window. Batgirl smashes through, taking out a couple of the men, getting down to the last one holding the gun to the couple. Batgirl decides to take a chance and distract him by mocking him, and then throws a batarang at his gun hand making a direct hit. The man gets upset and tackles Batgirl taking them off the balcony. Batgirl regains the upper hand grabbing him and the railing before he falls then handcuffs the man to the balcony, with a couple of batarangs in his hands to keep him still, warning him not to take them out till the police and the medics show up. She then takes off.

We are then given a short re accounting of the assault of Joker that paralyzed her, and we see it was actually Barbara having a nightmare. She goes down stairs and meets with her father who says she doesn't have to go, she can continue living with him. She states its something she has to do.

She goes to an apartment meets her new roommate and starts moving her stuff in, and we learn her roommate is an activist.

W are then taken to the hospital, where the man from the attempted murder the night previous rests, with cops watching.

Were taken to the front desk where the same cloaked man from the beginning appears and starts attacking people through out the hospital.

Barbara gets a text, saying that she secretly routed her dads text alerts the her phone and she tells her roommate she has to go, revealing her motorcycle.

We are shown Batgirl racing to the scene.

The two cops watching the man are watching the door, guns in hand as the cloaked man has been shooting people. He shoots through the door hitting both cops and comes through the door showing the man in the hospital bed his fears, stating the man should have fallen, he is on the list.

Batgirl busts in on her bike and tells him hes not getting away.

The cloaked man turns and points the gun right where Batgirl was shot, that caused her to be paralyzed. This caused her to freeze, giving the man in the cloak time to push the man in the hospital bed out the window and turns and points the gun back at Batgirl, who is now being called a murder by the female cop still alive, who states that she let the man push him out the window and Batgirl did nothing.

And that is the end of issue one!

So I am interested to see more. The Mirror (a villain I am not familiar with) is obviously on some "godsend" mission taking out people who survived where he feels they shouldn't have. But it was interesting that one Barbara Gordon, was on his list and two that he pointed the gun directly at the spot she was shot previously by the Joker!

I have noticed that the Batman originated comics are trying to keep to more the classic style of comics, with a more modern look, which I think is great!

I enjoyed this title, even though it wasn't one the original titles that I was planning on reviewing it was good an I will probably continue on to read more of Batgirl.

I suggest picking one up!

Well I am caught up on my reviews for now, gotta wait for next weeks to come out and then hopefully the second prints from last week will come out soon so I can review those.

Catwoman issue 1 the New 52

Catwoman has always been a favored character of mine from the Batman universe. I have always loved a strong, I will kick your ass female character, and Catwoman takes that to the next level. She is continuously hopping the fence of being a girl girl and a bad girl. And pulls off both at the same time. Shes a notorious robber and thief and yet a protector as well. She has also been an ongoing Lust interest for Batman.

While I was hoping for a new outfit with the New 52 revamp, they have decided to keep an outfit they have been using for her for a while now.

Which is basically this outfit here. While there have been a few different renditions of this outfit, they have stuck with this design for a while now.

I have to say just as a personal note that this is one of my favorite of the Catwoman outfits created thus far. I know a lot of Catwoman fans hated this movie. Mostly because it was not Selena Kyle. But I absolutely loved the idea of having multiple Catwomen. And Patience Phillips was the perfect rendition of the duality of the character that Catwoman has always portrayed. And this outfit was just smoking hot!

Anyway onto the review!

Warning I will be giving a complete overview of the story featured in Catwoman issue 1, if you don't want to spoil it for yourself I suggest you stop reading now and pick up the issue, and then come back and check out my review!

Plot:

We start off with a half naked Selena Kyle throwing on a leather outfit really quickly, so quickly it seems she is demolishing her apartment. Also shown throwing all her kitties into one cat carrier, maybe the appropriate word is stuffing, there seem to be quite a few. Followed by her front door cracking the busting open as men in skull masks with guns come through, just as she is jumping out the window, half dressed and holding on to her cat carrier, she uses her whip to swing from the rooftops. She gets a few roof tops away a narrative explaining she had no idea who they were, probably someone she pissed off or stole from orr both. Thinking its clear she turns around to see when they leave, thinking if she stays gone for a few days she can circle back, not wanting to lose this apartment like she did her last one. As she turns to check on the apartment it goes up in flames. She ends up at a friends/informants house who tells her about an empty penthouse that she can stay in for a few weeks, followed by information on a Russian Clan/Mob that she could possibly make some money off of. She goes incognito as a bartender for a party the Russian Clan was holding, to see if she can over hear anything worth while. Almost giving up she finally over hears of a panting that was stolen from the Clan, worthless and more importantly priceless to anyone else but extremely valuable to the clan. She decides that's the ticket to making some money and starts to leave when she sees a man she recognizes, who she says is supposed to be locked up, she has a flash back of this man beating a young girl and the shooting her in the head, killing her. While a young Selena Kyle watched. Angry hes free, she follows him to the bathroom, unbuttoning her blouse tricking him into thinking she wants to do things with him, just at that moment she pounces and attacks him, more than likely she killed the man. While outside the Russians have discovered the bartender she drugged and hid in a closet, slipping back into her Catwoman costume she flees, taking out a few of the suppressed Russians as she does so.

She heads back to her loft, where Batman is actually waiting for her, he says he heard about her place getting torched and wanted to know if she is ok, where she responds by kissing him fiercely. She narrates their passion for one another while pieces of costumes are taken off, while she states, she is sure he has no idea she is Selena Kyle, she has no idea who he is and doesn't care.

And were left with that steamy scene.

Here is the cover of the first issue. As you can see they have no problem showing the sultry sexuality of Catwoman, as she pours a small bag of diamonds over her body.

Once again loving everything Catwoman is, she is steamy, sultry, fierce and powerful. That makes for a really sexy character, which is something Catwoman has always been sold on is sex.

I am curious to see as this is my first time reading a Catwoman issue where this will lead? Obviously as she is considered a villain herself she wont be running into villain's, but as she steals from gangsters and what not I am pretty sure she has quite a few enemies. So it will be interesting to see what happens to her.

A trend I have noticed is that the two people shown who care about Catwoman, Batman and her Informant, seem to be concerned for her, both have asked if she is ok? Is something wrong with Catwoman? Is she acting or are things happening to her that are out of the norm? I guess these are things that we will find out.

I love the artistry in this comic book as well, a different style that I am used to and yet still follows what I would consider the classic comic book style.

If your an avid Catwoman fan, pick this up! I happened to get lucky when I went to get my comics I actually got the last issue of Catwoman on the shelf. Still a little bitter that I was one of the first people in line and I missed Supergirl!

Oh well, so I have one more issue to cover, and its actually from last weeks, but I will be covering tomorrow, Batgirl!



Nightwing issue 1 the New 52

I have to say, growing up with Batman, the one with Adam West. And then again the Animated Series from the early 90's. Its hard for me to see Dick Grayson all grown up and out on his own, and hot! It does make sense for him to grow up eventually, and as he an Batman had there altercations, it makes sense he would want to fly the nest and do his own thing. And for those who know most of his adult life he has done exactly that. He became Nightwing.

For those who don't know what the grown up Boy Wonder looks like, this was the costume design before the New 52 revamp. Which for me always brought up alot of questions, with no utility belt where oh where did that boy hide all his gadgets?

So Nightwing has once again received a Solo title, dubbed as such, Nightwing. So here is my review of Nightwing issue 1 of the New 52.

Warning will be doing a full review of the storyline for Nightwing. If you do not want to spoil it for yourself, I suggest you pick up the copy, read it then come back and check my review!!!



The cover brilliantly features our now Man Wonder, Nightwing. As you can see they have upgraded his suite and changed his color scheme a little. Where as the old outfit comprised seemingly of a really dark blue color and a light blue color, this new outfit, features him in black with the red bird symbol. Which personally I think fits better as red was one of his main colors as Robin.

Plot:

Nightwings begins with our hero, on the rooftops of Gotham City. As he begins to go from rooftop to rooftop, he narrates his most recent escapades. After the "death" (disappearance) of Batman, all of his previous now grown up boy wonders, Dick Grayson, Jason Todd, and Tim Drake, decided the world cannot be without Batman. So they all duked it out and Dick ended up being the victor, and taking Batmans place for a while, with Bruce Wayne's son Damian Wayne as Robin.

So in Nightwing, as our hero narrates he tells us how as Batman, Gotham threw its worst at him and he came out stronger in the end. Eventually his travels leading him to a monorail where a psycopath is killing passengers. Nightwing swoops in saying nothing can scare him anymore and takes out the thug. As he travels through the city afterward, he comes across a circus tent, informing us that this was the same circus that he and his parents used to travel with. And how he has visited them in other cities and states, but never in Gotham after the death of his parents. And yet he thinks him self strong enough to fight the fear of going there.

We are then taken to a scene of a bus dropping off passengers. A man walking of the bus, wearing shades at night gets stopped by some thugs demanding toll for passing though there sidewalk. They begin to attack and the man fights back, with trained assassin like abilities. Once there all down, the man calmly walks away stating how he likes Gotham.

Back to Dick Grayson in his loft its now morning and he talks of the differences between Batman and himself. And ends up at the circus.

Meeting up with old friends from the past, and seemingly an old girlfriend from the past and her new boyfriend. They invite him for a swing through the tent top like in the old days. He gets up there and they are amazed at the talent for it he has retained (none of them knowing he was once the boy wonder, or now Nightwing). So realizing he is supposed to be "out of touch" with his skills he fakes a fall into the net. After hanging around and catching up with his friends he heads back for the night. When he is attacked by an unknown character wearing all black and a specialized mask. He also wields two claws at the end of his hands. Some cops intervene giving Dick the chance to change into Nightwing, then the two begin to trade blows. The mysterious man informs Nightwing he doesn't know who hes protecting, saying Dick Grayson is the fiercest killer in all of Gotham and doesn't even know it. Obviously Nightwing being Dick, is very confused from this statement. There fight backs up to a water tower on a rooftop and the assassin blows a whole in it, causing a fount of water to burst forth and hit Nightwing, sending him crashing down to the street below with the assassin not far behind.

This is where the comic closes.

I love the art in this comic book, a lot of artist these days are following in suite with comics such as Witchblade and Fathom as far as style. This issue still has a certain classic comic style to it.

I think this issue did a good job of setting the fans up with where Dick is currently at in his life, and the type of character he has become.

I love the new outfit, but again curious, as he is seen using grappling hooks to traverse the rooftops, with no utility belt where does he keep his gadgets?

If you are a Boy Wonder grown into man Nightwing fan. Than I suggest you check out this issue from the new 52. I have always been a fan of Nightwing, but that's only because I had the hots for him, haven't really taken the time to read about him much. But I find his character interesting, and I myself will be reading more!

Next up Catwoman!

Wonder Woman issue 1 the New 52

Just slightly sad with this issue release, the Justice League issue 1 Wonder Woman, looking way more effeminate than this new issue of Wonder Woman's solo title. But it still fits, she still has the amazonian warrior feel too her that she will mess you up in a heart beat if you mess with her!
Warning I will be giving a complete synopsis over view of the issue number 1 Wonder Woman, should you not want to spoil it for yourself, DON'T read a head, read the issue then come back and read my review!

The cover features WW, in an outfit more closely resembling that of the original WW outfit. We see that the Tiara, Bracelets, winged W on the chest, and the belt have been traded in for Silver instead of Gold, and we see an added metallic, neck choker and arm band. The Boots and briefs of the outfit seem to be closer to black than the original navy blue, with the briefs still featuring the white stars.



The comic starts off in Singapore, we have the God Apollo, entertaining three beautiful women. He is telling them about his father who gets around, and has gone missing. He then walks up behind them and puts them in a some sort of trance.

The comic then shifts to a barn in Virginia, where a Woman cloaked in Peacock feathers appears from no where ( I assume this woman just happens to be Hera, queen of the God's who's symbol is the peacock. She lays some weapons on the floor, a mace, a sword, a bow and arrows. Takes a Scythe off of the wall and chops the head off from both horses in the barn, from the spot where the heads were cut off, hands and heads begin to grow from the bleeding insides of the head. We are then taken inside the house where a man wearing a head protector, with blue skin and beady little eyes, tells a the woman they must go. To woman obviously not expecting visitors is wearing a open button down flannel white t shirt and pink panties holding a shot gun to the man. Who states they have come for her and her child. She screams for him to leave, to which he responds you will die here! He then pushes her away from the front door, getting knocked back by an arrow, also revealing he has bird like fee with wings off of the ankles (I'm guessing Hermes, messenger god) and gets stuck to the wall. Two Centaurs holding the weapons (Hera) left on the ground of the barn come crashing through the door. Just as the male centaur raises his sword for the killing blow to the woman, (Hermes) shouts Zola! and throws a key to her, in which after catching it a bright light appears and she vanishes just as the sword strikes the place she sat in fear.

She reappears in London in the room of a naked raven haired woman lying in bed, when she goes to reach to wake her up the woman grabs her by the throat demanding to know who she is, Zola tells the woman there were things, and a man with eyes he was in her home, to which the woman interrupts, how did you get here? She holds out the key saying the man threw it to her. To raven haired woman obviously recognizes that, and request Zola give it to her, still frightened she says no. The raven haired woman asks her name to which she responds Zola, and the introduction is returned by announcing her name is Dianna. Who then walks over to a wardrobe on the other side of the room. To which Dianna says she could take the key by force but would prefer if it was given willingly.

Upon opening the cabinet we see a sword, part of a star spangled shield, an ax, a helmet with a red star in the middle and a tiara with a red star in the middle, and Dianna starts to dress. (I guess gone are the days of the spinning transformation).

Zola seeing her fully dress realizes she has in the presence of Wonder Woman, who again asks for the key. Upon receiving it they are taken back to Zola's home, and battle begins with Wonder Woman and the centaurs.

During the battle the are text boxes with a prophecy, it appears Apollo has made the three women his oracles.

"You want us, to tell you, what we see?" The oracles

"Dear ladies you are my oracles, my eyes that gaze on what is yet to be seen, please, tell me what you see" Apollo.

" There is a storm gathering just beyond the horizon, and the one responsible shall rule in fire."

"Sorry about that." The oracles.

"Who is it?" Apollo.

"Too much smoke" Oracles.

" What?" Apollo.

"We cant see clearly, it wears a crown of horns, and a cape of blood flowing from its shoulders, onto a naked woman at its feet." Oracles.

" The Feet?" Apollo.

" There bare, like the woman." Oracles.

" Then it is my family." Apollo.

" Your family...is broken, beaten and betrayed by blood." Oracles

" Tell me something I don't know." Apollo.

" Well your father has abandoned fate, to someone who can blow away the smoke, if they choose too."

" Seriously this is mental." Oracles.

" What do you mean by that?" Apollo.

" We mean that what your father wants is nothing anyone should, its dirty its irredeemable, and it won't end good for you." Oracles

This is the entire prophecy up through this point.

Wonder Woman has beaten the centaurs and saved Zola. Hermes walks free of the house telling her to protect Zola, of the queen will see her dead. Zola's life is important. To which Zola responds that Hermes is wrong, he said to protect her and her child, well she doesn't have one!. To which Hermes responds that she is pregnant by Zeus.

We are then taken back to the rooftop in Singapore, with Apollo and his three oracles. The prophecy continues.

"He will kill, one of you." Oracles.

" One of me?" Apollo.

" Yeah one of your fathers children will murder another and take their place, its what your father wants, that's so screwed up." Oracles.

" That's dear old dad, pulling the strings, the curtains, legs. Where is he?" Apollo

" He doesn't exist yet." The Oracles.

At that moment Apollo begins to light up and the three women catch a blaze, they burn to bones and fall to the ground below, as Apollo rises to the sky in a bright light.

So here we have an interesting tale right off the bat! Hera seems to be stirring the pot, Apollo is fear full of what is father is up to, Zola is pregnant with a child of Zeus. While Dianna seems to just get thrown into this unknowing anything is going on.

So I'm curious to see where this one will lead. Greek and Roman mythology has always been a favorite of mine, so its surprising to me I never got into Wonder Woman a whole lot more. But it sounds dead on, tragedy, murder and intrigue, something the Greeks were good at!

If you enjoy some bloody tough ass woman kicking butt action, then pick up Wonder Woman.

Lets talk a little about the costume used in the issue. It would seem there were two covers for this book.

While the actual book showed WW wearing her star spangled briefs, this one features her in her pants outfit for the new re-model. Personally I would have gone with this. I think as we head into a modern age for Super Heroes, the uniforms need to match. Gone are the days of spandex and wearing briefs, and underwear on the outside of your tights. The pants give WW a more modern kick ass look, and I wish they would have followed through with this in the comic as well, as in the comic she was also wearing the briefs.

Now while I understand that showing some leg is sexy, this day in age so is leaving somethings to the imagination. And it just makes her appear more of a bad ass to be wearing leather pants.

So while the costume choice didn't work for me in this supposed revamping of the DC characters, the story has peaked my interest from the beginning and I will defiantly be buying the upcoming issues of Wonder Woman.

Next up Nightwing!

Green Lantern Corps issue 1 the New 52

So still new to this whole DC Comics thing. But really really enjoying it. So much easier to start for some comics in the middle and pick up whats going on in the story. Something I have had problems with in the past with Marvel.
Luckily we don't have that issue with the New 52, they are all starting with issue 1! New stories old characters so you don't have to be lost.
 Warning will be going over synopsis of storyline for entire issue, if you do not want it spoiled I suggest waiting till you read the issue.
Green Lantern Corps

Here is our cover featuring some noticeable favored Lanterns of the Corp: From bottom to top Arisa, Guy Gardener, John Stewart, Killowog, Soranik Natu, Stel, and lastly Hannu.



The comic starts off in Sector 3599 in a GL sector house, the two Lanterns of this sector have someone imprisoned who is yelling obscenities and threats while they go about there processing duties of the weapons confiscated and the criminal himself. They turn there back on him and then see he finally goes silent. They turn to thank him and find his body has been cut in two blood every where. As they take fighting stances and ask there ring to locate the intruder, one of the GL's looses a head. The others ring locates a target and just as she is about to fire on the unseen intruder, he grabs her ring hand, cuts her in half like the prisoner, then cuts off the finger that holds her ring, causing both Lanterns rings to leave there hosts to find new replacements for this sector. Nothing of this enemy can be seen save for his hand and his eyes which are also ironically cast in a metallic green color.

From this opening scene we are taken to Guy Gardner watching a planetarium presentation on earth, when his ring alerts him of an interview he is late for. We then see him surrounded in a waiting room, probably by other men interviewing for what ever position hes there for. All these men pestering him as he is a known Green Lantern, asking him questions about aliens, and his sector and to power up his ring. When he is finally called in for the interview. It would seem he is applying for a Coaching position for a High School Football team. The woman interviewing him makes it blatantly clear that as he is a Green Lantern, he has duties that would come before the children, not to mention being a GL, he could be a target of an attack putting the students in danger. Obviously he didn't get the job.

We are then taken to one of earths other known GL's, John Stewart, as we know he is an architect. He is currently meeting with contractors discussing new safety features he would like to install on the building currently being worked. The contractors arguing as to why when they are already approved for everything in the design, to go over budget for added safety features. Obviously John is coming from his standpoint as a GL (not to mention we all know he was unable to save an entire planet belonging to his GL wife) is a little more paranoid about safety. The contractors continue to argue money over precaution and he gets upset, using his ring and scaring the contractors a bit before flying off.

The comic then cuts back to sector 3599 on the planet Nerro, what appears to be a completely water based planet, with purple swimming mole like inhabitants, a giant whirl pool appears and begins sucking them in.

We are then taken to Guy and John, in there GL uniforms shooting the breeze on a satellite orbiting earth, wondering why they never took on secret identities like the other two of Earth Sectors 4 Green Lanterns, Hal Jordan, and Kyle Rayner, saying it makes it hard to have a normal life at home on Earth. John says its because they needed to stand out, both having there reasons for doing so. They determine maybe there not meant for a "normal" life, they are both soldiers and decide to head to Oa, the home planet and Sector 0 for the  Green Lanter Corps.

Here we see the "assistant" to the Guardians , and GL recorder Salak wittiness there return. Just as they arrive, Salak questioning why they are not in there sector, and Guy stating 4 Lanterns for one sector is overkill and Kyle and Hal can handle it for a while, to which Salak reminds that Hal is no longer a Green Lantern (having been discharged after the War of the Green Lanterns for killing a Guardian Krona.)  John sees in Salaks many screens that a bunch of Lanterns have died in one sector, sector 3599, They were answering a distress call on the planet Nerro and lost contact and were next noted as deceased. Salak states he was about to send another emergency patrol there as back up. Guy and John, of course offer themselves up for the job and take some other Lanterns with them. Vandor, Isamot Kol, Sheriff Maroin, Hannu and Brik, they  arrive at the planet to see it has been drained dry, all its inhabitants dead. And as if to send a message, the GL's sent to investigate, hanging dead on spears.

That is the entire plot for Green Lantern Corps issue 1.

So lets start with the character revamp.

Nothing has really changed about Guy Gardeners GL uniform. Its practically the same.

Johns if anything has stayed mostly the same as well, but the green parts have more of a metallic look to them.

 Interesting way to start this off already we see, a danger to the Corps, a practically invisible enemy, until he wants you to see him. Who also seems to have no trouble at all killing the Green Lanterns, now this could just be that he catches the unawares, while most Lanterns project a field tight to there bodies to protect them from attack.

So we are left with a cliff hanger at the end. Wondering who is it killing off Lanterns? Wondering why Hal is still no longer with the Corps? How are Guy and John, going to save themselves?

I am sure that things will only continue to get more and more interesting with each new issue that is released.

I am curious as it seems that maybe John and Guy are going to be the main Lanterns featured in this series for a while.

Hal Jordan the first Lantern, was discharged and from what we know for the Green Lantern issue 1, features Sinestro (who regained his GL status during the War with Krona) as its hero. And I was unable to get that issue I may know more, but I am left to ponder, is Sinsestro fighting the good fight again? And will Hal take back his mantel of the Greatest Green Lantern?

Kyle as it appears is the head liner of a new series called Green Lantern: New Guardians, in which he appears to team up with the second in commands of the other Corps of the spectrum. Will he make appearances in Corps or is he going to continue with New Guardians for a while?

All in all if your a GL fan make sure you get this issue, obviously you will probably miss the first print (people collect them and save them for money making way way way out in the future) but second print is usually easier to find and they tend to release more of the second print anyway.

Next Up Wonder Woman issue 1 of the New 52!