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Green Lantern: The Sinestro Corps War Volume One by Geoff Johns, Dave Gibbons, Ivan Reis, Patrick Gleason and Ethan Van Sciver
01/05/2008 . Source: Geoff Willmetts 
pub: Titan Books. 160 page graphic novel hardback. Price: £16.99 (UK). ISBN: 978-1-84576-782-2. Buy Green Lantern: The Sinestro Corps War in the USA - or Buy Green Lantern: The Sinestro Corps War in the UK  check out website: www.titanbooks.comand www.dccomics.com
This is a bound reprint of the story spread between Green Lantern # 21-23, Green Lantern Corps 14-15 and the Green Lantern: Sinestro Corps Special last year.
Members of the Green Lantern Corps aren't chosen because they are heroic but because they lack fear. If anything, this could also be their biggest weakness. After all, no one is truly without fear, just a little tougher to find what in some people. If anything, its either suppressed of they are better dealing with problems. Mind you, if you had a power ring, you probably would as well.
As you might surmise from the book title, ex-Green Lantern and renegade Sinestro is back and this time he has his corps powered by rings that emit yellow energy. Considering that the Green Lantern Corps' power rings are flawed against anything yellow, then there is an immediate problem. Even more so, when Sinestro's Corps have nothing against murder which the GL Corps is forbidden to do. Things are hardly fair-sided and their OA Guardians are locked in talks about what they can do to help. Things aren't helped when Kyle Rayner is abducted to the anti-universe, beaten and then possessed by Parallax to join Sinestro.
In many respects, this book is practically a series of battles. I hope none of you have any particular favourites amongst the Corps. The body count is stupendous with power rings left to run off looking for new hosts. It does raise an interesting point as to who is looking after the various sectors while all the GL Corps is involved in these battles not to mention having some better way to keep their power rings charged for twenty-four hours when away from their own lanterns or even the main one on OA.
As this is the first volume, much of this story is build-up and any uninitiated reader is going to think they've just been thrown in the deep end to sort out what is going on. For those of you who are familiar with the Green Lantern Corps, it does address the kinds of problems being a power ring owning galactic policeman entails. It doesn't look good for the Green Lanterns and there's only a hint of what the Guardians have changed their mind over as to whether it will allow them to do the necessary.
The combination of writers and artists keeps things together and its hard to spot where one team drops off for another to take over. Considering the number of characters per page, I wonder who had the biggest nightmare, the artists, inkers or colourists. Those of you who like looking at the fine detail are going to spend hours looking at each major panel. With the Earth now in peril again, can't wait for the next volume.
GF Willmetts
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