Green Lantern: The Sinestro Corps War (Green Lantern (2005-2011))

Incredible story. The pages get a little cluttered with all the Lanterns. But it's still a damn good read. Though the rings feel a bit underutilised, the fights are still glorious. One minor issue is that nearly every battle seems to revolve around Earth's 4 Lanterns while the others act as weak cannon fodder. I'm a huge Superboy prime fan so this is worth getting just to see him cut loose against Sodam Yat.

An awesome arc with lots of call backs and just really good story. Sets up the rest of Johns and associates run

As the title implies, this is all out war for the Green Lanterns. In this collection, the Green Lantern Corp faces one of their greatest threats yet, a similar army of ring-bearing soldiers recruited by Sinestro to overcome the Guardians. If that were all this was, it would be a fantastic, epic, action-packed story (which it is). But it gets a little overpacked with even more villains, like Superman-Prime, Cyborg Superman, and even the Anti-Monitor. And that's fine. Their stated purpose was to really stack the odds against the Corp and make it feel like huge event, which they do. But not only does it splinter the story a bit, it pulls focus from Sinestro and even the Lanterns to some extent. In a lot of ways this feels less like a Green Lantern story and more like Infinite Crisis Continued. It also requires a lot more background knowledge for readers than some of other Johns' work, which is usually fairly accessible to readers of all levels. Still, it's hard to deny that some of the action and events that unfold in this story are some of the most epic in DC history. So for that alone I strongly recommend it; I just caution new readers that they may be overwhelmed if they haven't familiarized themselves with not only the Green Lantern lore, but the various Crisis events that came before this.

This has to be one of the densest stories published in the DC line. So much happens on every page! I was a bit overwhelmed and had to rely on a Wiki to make sure I hadn't missed anything important. And yet, very clearly, this was just a stage setter... the book is littered with references to the Blackest Night event that is gathering on the horizon, past "Final Crisis". I think Final Crisis itself was seeded in this story as well, if the return of some infamous baddies from prior crises is any indication. :) I dare say no more for fear of spoilers...The fact that so much plot is squeezed into so few pages does have some bad effects however. The art felt frantic to me at times, and some panels, while gorgeous, need several minutes of consideration before you get everything that's going on. Some major events in the plot could well have been several TPBs on their own, but are dealt with quickly (Parallax taking over and leaving another Green Lantern for example). I for one thought this story would've been better told over maybe 1.5x the issues that it was? Anyway, this makes it a must-re-read kind of a book/ story. No way did I get everything this first time.The eruption of colors universe wide at the end (again, trying to avoid spoilers here :P ) is fun. The philosophical schism in the Guardians is convincing, and the "dark side" implications of the new First Law (of ten) written into the Book of Oa could not be clearer. I'd say anyone that enjoyed Green Lantern: Rebirth should read this book too, leading up to Blackest Night. Reasonable knowledge of all the DC crises thus far and some understanding of Green Lantern mythos are must haves before this tale can be enjoyed...

The Sinestro Corps war heats up with the arrival of Cyborg Superman, The Anti-Monitor and of course Superboy Prime. With a plot based on a prophecy from a 1986 story by Alan Moore, the story continues with the emergence of the Daxamite lantern, Sodam Yat. Imagine Superman combined with Green Lantern and then suped up after becoming the host of ION (some kinda whale looking entity that grants even greater power to one lantern member). The centerpiece of this book is the titanic battle between Yat and Superboy-Prime and it's a barn burner. (just as an aside, Superboy-Prime is now referred to as SuperMAN-Prime because of legal reasons but clearly he is being written as a boy so I refer to him by his old name). In this book Superboy-Prime reestablishes what we learned in Infinite Crisis, that he is just about the nastiest, toughest SOB in the DCU.It's funny that it's called The Sinestro Corps since Sinestro is probably the weakest of the four top villains. I can't imagine he's more powerful than Superboy-Prime, the Anti-Monitor or Parallax, maybe Hank Henshaw. I would consider this series to be the natural follow up to Infinite Crisis particularly since it features Superboy-Prime heavily and it has a big event feel to it, much more so than 52. The art is very well done and again has that event look with panels jam packed with action and characters.If I have one complaint about the book it's that it can tend to be a bit overly sappy and some of the moments had me groaning. I suppose the attempt was to balance it out with the extreme violence particularly the blood soaked fight between Yat and Prime as well as the slaughter of Sinestro's Corps by the now unrestrained Green Lanterns. There are hints at an even greater cataclysm yet to come called the darkest night. I always love the interview section that DC has been adding to the end of these compilations and this one is top notch. All in all a well done series.

Liked the story alot, great twists and battles, the overall chaos, that's just going on when they get into it, on every page there's just another great scene of chaos all over the entire galaxy. I liked how coast city was a big part of why Hal felt the way he did. Just an overall excellent setup for what's to come.