Green Lanterns, Issue #5 comes out every two weeks, so it's been only two months since the title started. It's the story of Jessica Cruz and Simon Baz. If you're like me, you became a fan of Baz at the end of Geoff Johns's famed Green Lantern run. I haven't read all of Johns's Green Lantern, but I've read the first third and the final sixth, if that makes any sense. Issue #5 is the fifth installment of the "Rage Planet" arc, where the Red Lanterns have created hell on Earth, and for some reason Simon Baz and Jessica Cruz are the only defenders of Earth. Hal Jordan, John Stewart, and the other Green Lanterns are off having some other adventure, and the Justice League is powerless against the Red Lanterns.
As I've said for the past four issues, I think this is a great title, although Jessica Cruz is too trim and sexy to be a former home-bound agoraphobe. Simon Baz is a powerful Green Lantern whose willpower has spiked a couple of times, giving him new powers. The offset nature of their power makes the situation work. I do like getting comics every week, but I would like to get back to reading more trade paperbacks and omnibi.
In general, whenever you get out of the habit of reading, which I do for a couple of days or even a week or two from time to time, go back to something easy. For me, that's new comics in floppy format. I know I'll get through one of them in 15 minutes or half an hour no matter how much text is in them (with exception for a few prose-based works). To make a long story short, I saw a neurologist yesterday because of a shaky hand and got a diagnosis of Essential Tremor (the condition Charles Schultz has). I decided to not let it slow down my life in the least. I went on a date last night, and here I am, doing a review.
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