Sinestro Corps Wars and Uncanny X-Men Update

It had been a few weeks since I picked up books, so when I went in I discovered that another issue of Uncanny X-men had come out. It was actually pretty interesting, except for a scene with Johnny Storm and War Path. Xavier abused his powers more to Nightcrawler's amazement, but we did get to see Magneto paying his respects to one of his dead henchmen. There's a show down between the X-Men and the O.N.E., and the cliffhanger to the book is that one of the Morlock's is actually a S.H.I.E.L.D. agent, undercover. Storm has some more pathetic dialog that fit the new persona Marvel's chosen for her. It's sad that Marvel had this great idea of putting her and Black Panther on the Fantastic Four, and not a single writer has done anything interesting with it. Not in X-Men, not in the FF book and definitely not in Black Panther! Reed and Sue were gone for like 4 issues and already they're on their way back, so it was a total waste of a great idea. Check out that cover though! Larroca is just gotten better and better, you can totally tell that he took a break and came back with a fresh prospective and really had taken his art to the next level. Still haven't read the Endangered Species storyline but Bangley's art stinks, hopefully he doesn't take over an X-Book.

Sinestro Corps after the break!

The War continues on in Lantern 22, and boy howdy was it exciting. One of the Lost Lantern's get's smoked, sadly he was pretty cool but that's Geoff Johns style, kill them while their cool! Superboy Prime hangs out for another issue and so does the Anti-Monitor and Cyborg Superman. AM promises CS that he'll kill him once they fulfill his real motives (Which were not revealed). Can I just say for a moment how bad ass Hal Jordan is? Oh I can? Hal Jordan is a bad ass! Not only does he still not take any crap from the Lost Lantern's, but he pretty much tells the entire Sinestro Corps Army to suck it. Going back to Superboy Prime, he's already eying the Earth which was cool, but he's got Superman's powers and a Sinestro ring... if he's not kicking and killing a lot of people by the next part I'm going to call Bullshit on him being in the book. Parallax is the bomb as well, he cuts down so many of the Lost Lantern's with just his words and playing on their one deep fear. The best is when he's saying it's as easy as the first time he and Jordan took down the LL's, and asking Jordan if he remembers screaming on the inside unable do doing anything about it. Great stuff. I can see what Johns' is going to do next though, he's going to go into the fear tanks and over come his one great fear so that Parallax and Sinestro have nothing over him and then beat more ass then ever before. Which will be cool, but I see it coming.

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The Sinestro Corps War - Parts 1-3

I was able to sit down tonight and finish reading all three parts of the Sinestro Corps War. Written by Geoff Johns and Gibbons, with art by Van Sciver, Reis and Gleason. I've included all of the covers (plus variants for you cover hungry Fanboys). Quite frankly it is one of the best Crossovers I've ever read and literally has me counting the days until the next issue comes out. Basically Alan Moore set the stage for this entire thing, he wrote an issue about Hal Jordan's predecessor going to a forbidden planet. On the planet he was given a prophecy about his future, this is the last part of that prophecy coming true. If you didn't pick up the Sinestro Corps Special, don't worry they did a second printing of it... that being said if you missed out on the second printing, don't worry they're doing a third printing of it. So right now there's the Green Lantern's that represent Willpower and the absents of Fear, then there's the Sinestro Corps that represent Fear. Back in the day the GL Corps' rings didn't work on yellow, because Parallax (The Embodiment of the emotion Fear) was trapped in the central battery for the GL's (The Central Battery is what charges all the GL's rings) and his presence made their rings useless on yellow. I know that was way to nerdy for anyone to follow but hey it doesn't matter, you can't still enjoy a good story.

So here's some basic info for you, Sinestro was Hal Jordon's teacher. Jordan caused Sinestro to fall from grace as the Greatest GL ever, and Jordan took his title. Sinestro's back and he's not happy with Jordan or Kyle Rayner (Ion the Torchbearer aka the embodiment of Willpower) I'll just let you read the first 3 pages of the Special and it will pretty much tell you why. Like I said it's only three issues into this crossover and I'm not even sure how many there are. Love has it's own Corps starting, as was learned in issue 20 of Green Lantern and there's still 4 more emotions out there. Each of these emotions may or may not have it's own Corps, but only time will tell. Over all I'm giving this crossover a solid 10.0. The writing is top notch and with Johns working with his 2 best Green Lantern artist, it will be hard for it not to look as good as it's written. I'll do an update on the Crossover and if the scores changed I'll let you know but right now it's sitting on Pretty St. riding it's perfect 10. Enjoy the first 3 pages of the Special and oh yeah the last page too! SPOILER ALERT!

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