Morgan Hampton and Jeremy Adams' Green Lantern Corps Vol. 1: New World Rising is a mixed bag, unfortunately, especially after Adams' excellent, parallel Green Lantern Vol. 5: Fractured Spectrum.

The book starts well enough, with a story that gets a strong boost from art by Fernando Pasarin, despite some continuity issues that are becoming increasingly worrisome in the Lantern franchise overall. But the middle two issues don’t hold up, nor the last one necessarily, and that’s concerning. Though Corps technically fine and treats all the Lantern characters well, when it’s in the shadow of Green Lantern and what this book could be, so far it doesn’t measure up.