Green Lantern #19

Well, good gosharootie, this wasn't bad at all.  Which is definitely an improvement over the other Green Lantern books, which have been a bit on the disappointing side lately. 

We do have the folding cover, showing all of the broken and cracked lanterns...when you open it up, it shows Sinestro, still in his Green Lantern togs, holding a YELLOW Lantern, with the logo that says Fear Burns Brightest!

ooooh.

No Doug Mahnke this issue, which makes me sad, but  Syak and Kudranski do a decent job.

We begin with Tomar Re begging Hal to reconsider killing himself in order to master Black Hand's ring.  Hal may be "Dead", but at this point he is only MOSTLY Dead.  However, being Hal, of course he doesn't listen, and of course, he thinks he has a plan.  Silly Hal.  And yet, he probably couldn't react any other way...being Hal.

Meanwhile, Sinestro has followed Simon Baz BACK to the world of the living, although he is being awfully snotty about it.  Simon is surprisingly cool about the whole thing, and B'dg just tells Sinestro to chill or words to that effect.  The other Maltusians, who have now been named the Templar Guardians seem a tad disconcerted by all of this, but try to make the best of things.  Sinestro of course, is having none of that, and blasts off to Korugar.

Here, he meets up with Arsona, and he actually asks her to help him.  She's a bit flabberghasted, because he has never even admitted needing help.  Sinestro is oddly diffident,  when naturally, Volthoom shows up to mess things up.  I am really hating Volthoom.  He is sooo annoying.  He does his usual schtick with Sinestro shown in his past  appearances, and then he feeds off of his emotions, and since apparently Sinestro has the BEST emotions, Volthoom is able to get enough power to...CHANGE THE UNIVERSE!

So he wipes out Korugar. 

This makes Sinestro...very very angry.  Very angry inDEED!

Back in the Dead Zone, Hal is still dithering, when all the dead Korugarians show up, so naturally, he jumps off of a cliff.   Oh Hal.  Never ever change.

Sinestro on the other hand, is still full of piss and vinegar...and lo and behold...sees his yellow Lantern floating just out of his reach.

So I guess the big issue is number 20. 

This really was pretty decent, but I have to admit that as much as I have been enjoying Sinestro and Hal together, I really can't stand Volthoom.  His motivation seems peculiar.  I understand he's not happy about being locked up for millenia, but he was just being evil for the sake of being evil, which I always find dull.  I also have trouble accepting the idea that Carol, Larfleeze and St. Walker are better at resisting Volthoom than full-fledged Lanterns such as Sinestro, Guy and John, and Kyle.  That just makes no sense at all. 

I'm still interested of course.  But no Hal butts.  Sinestro's isn't bad though.