Green Lanterns, Vol. 6: A World of Our Own by Tim Seeley

My rating: 2 of 5 stars


The first volume after Sam Humphries' great run on this series and it's not good.

It starts off okay in the first story with the Green Lanterns rescuing a piece of underground dwelling aliens, bur this is balanced against the plot of Jessica and Simon each seeking out crummy jobs and offering full disclosure in the interview about gaps in their resume in the least flattering way possible. Jessica explains that she and Simon have a hard time because they're brown people with bad resumes even though they're heroes in space, a line that felt totally out of place.

The second story is about a bounty hunter coming to Earth fleeing a contract by a mysterious space woman who is actually somewhat intriguing though never really explored.

The final story finds Jessica and Simon returning to help the aliens they rescued in the first story because they are on a world that doesn't want or trust them. It's essentially, a ham-fisted political analogy about refugees and immigration with several non-sensical plot twists.

Overall, new writer Tim Seeley doesn't get these characters and fails to tell a compelling narrative, transforming the two Green Lanterns odd couple buddy cups into flying tropes that aren't near as compelling as the characters Sam Humphries made so good.



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