Colorful Space Turf Wars — Reviewing ‘Green Lantern Corps’ #12

It’s been a while since checking in with the Green Lantern Corps. Surely not all that much has gone down. What’s that? There was a whole crossover event and now the various spectrum of ring-wearers are all living together on Oa while dealing with the fact that their emotional entities are missing and their batteries are not up to par?

Whoa, that’s a whole lot of change as we roll into Green Lantern Corps #12 from Morgan Hampton, Fernando Pasarín, Will Conrad, Oclair Albert, Jason Paz, Arif Prianto, Ian Herring, and Dave Sharpe.

There’s a lot going on and a whole lot of creators to bring this issue to life.

Four different artists means four different styles and connections going on. Luckily, the styles are all mostly from the same space and seem to mesh together well. They each capture the same sort of energy with their own unique elements still easy to spot.

No matter what, they all easily portray the action and motion quite fluidly. This allows the characters take up space and live within the boundaries of the area. It also gives every space accurate depth and sense of scale, as well as a denseness of detail. Emotional energy (not the entities kind) is clear and tangible in their faces, movements, and overall language.

Prianto and Herring combine their coloring talents to give the space a very wide variety of palette stylings. Much of the world is very natural and middle with the tones. This creates the right foundation upon which to build up the rest of the colors that have bigger more vibrant powers.

I had almost forgotten that Larfleeze was a thing. It’s been that long since I’ve really been tuned into a lot of Green Lantern and its wider spectrum. Makes sense that he would be the one least likely to want to join the overall leadership of the Corps.

Hampton does a solid job of working with the bigger cast here, making sure none of them overwhelm or feel too off compared to their spectrum and emotional areas. It feels chaotic and frantic, as it should with what is going down. There’s a whole lot going on so there isn’t as much of a personal or character touch as normal. That isn’t a bad thing, but I do miss having the bit more intimate moments with some of the characters we’ve had before.

A lot of characters means a ton of voices. There’s a ton of exposition and dialogue going down, and it stays pretty smooth and logical through and through. Sharpe adds all the right emotional depth and energy to it all. Especially when there is a ton of color and other font and bubble shifts going on with the variety of characters and spectrums involved.

Green Lantern Corps #12 is now available from DC Comics.