Green Lantern Corps #8: A Review

The Dark Side of the Green, part II

Well! Things certainly start off with a bang! The anonymous Dominator scientist is exposed to the artifact, and makes the snotty Dominator triumvirate eat their words...and then some. And Von Daggle, disguised as a Dominator meets his charming Khund disciple.

Meanwhile, Guy and R'amey are waiting for Daggle above the home planet of the Dominators. Guy is getting a little testy, when R'amey plants a big wet one on him, and he certainly doesn't fight her off. Heh heh!

Von Daggle arrives, and they get a lesson in strategy, he and R'amey are going after the artifact, and Guy needs to shut up the Khund...permanently.

Meanwhile the Dominator scientist has decided that the rest of his species aren't gifted enough to be exposed to his fabulous secret, and he plans to rule over them as a god. Megalomania seems to be catching here.

Daggle and R'amy have a tete a tete about Guy and his trustworthyness. I was quite pleased to see that R'amey has such a high opinion of Guy, and I love the utter coldbloodedness of Von Daggle.

Then we see a faint glow in the darkness, and emerging from it, is Guy Gardner, creeping up on the nasty little Khund. He's so used to having the ring, that even though he doesn't need to, he's holding his right wrist with his left hand, to steady the shot. He's having a bit of a problem however with just shooting the guy in the back. I can certainly understand that Guy may have had to kill in battle or in self-defense, but he's NOT the sort of person to just assasinate someone in cold blood. The Khund realizes that he's there, and is just toying with him, which may
turn out to be a mistake, since it makes Guy mad. They have a very nice and brutal fight going, and Guy is just about to administer the coup de grace, when the nasty
evolved Dominator shows up and he's in biiiiig trouble.

We then change scenes to Von Daggle and R'amey again, flying through the storm to find the artifact. Daggle opens up to her a bit about the history of the Corpse, and it turns out that he has...issues with none other than Hal Jordan. I love that repurcussions from the whole Parallax...unpleasantness are still showing up.

Meanwhile, poor Guy is getting his ass handed to him quite graphically. Shutting down his brain function except for his pain receptors seems especially nasty, but hey,that's how Dominators roll. The mega-Dominator and his "apostle" the Khund catch up with Von Daggle and R'amey at this point,and Daggle and the Khund go head to head, while R'amey is caught by the Dominator...and literally eviscerated. He rips out her power disk, and swallows it, thus giving himself the power it contains. Boy howdy, is HE going to be surprised when it all wears off in a couple of days! He lets R'amey fall, and the Khund comes flying up to join him and the two of them decide it is time to go to Earth and deliver a severe case of whup-ass. We are left with hauntingly horrible panels showing R'amey lying in her own entrails, and Guy all bloody and staring.

Whew! The art and the story just sieze you by the throat and don't let go! I kept jumping out of my chair and going Noooooooo...not R'amey! Not Guy! Again, the art is superlative...I LOVE the black outfits that they are wearing, they really look insanely dramatic. When they go into stealth mode, tendrils of black start to cover their faces, which is really neat. And there is a tiny panel after the Dominator has just defeated Guy, in which all you see are his eyes,wide-open and staring wtih tears running down in the blackness.

I can't help being sad that R'amey bought the big one, she was such a wonderful new character, and I really liked her. She goes in such a gruesome way too. I also can't help thinking that the Khund is really Von Daggle in disguise, it makes sense that he'd go along with the Dominator instead of trying to save his cohorts, for him the mission is the important thing.

So...once again, I am on the edge of my seat, breathlessly awaiting the next issue! And isn't that what a great comic does?