In comparison to the Absolute Big Three plus Absolute Martian Manhunter, I rated Al Ewing’s Absolute Green Lantern Vol. 1 among my least favorite of the Absolute books. I wondered whether manga-forward artist Jahnoy Lindsay was the right fit for Ewing’s story; also Ewing’s flashback-structure tale often told us too much what we already knew and not enough what we didn’t. There was a strong Stephen King-esque tale of aliens and apocalypse there, something like James Tynion’s Nice House on the Lake trying to peek through, but it ultimately got lost among some standard superheroic fisticuffs.
Absolute Green Lantern Vol. 2: Sojourner is highly redemptive. At least twice Ewing delivers the kind of rare pulse-pounding sequences that most comics writers only dream of. I love how many fronts there are, enemies upon enemies and conflicts upon conflicts, the Absolute book most like a TV show and the one most likely to take a few seasons to get to everything that’s here.
