Morgan Hampton leaves the most interesting political aspects of Green Lantern Corps Vol. 2: Lanterns United implied, bringing to the forefront contrived action instead. It’s an exercise in not trusting the reader; Lanterns United is an improvement over the failed comedy of the first volume, but this is still a book that hasn’t found its footing yet.
At four regular issues and a DC K.O. special, Lanterns United feels short, perhaps necessarily as an interstitial issue between its own Starbreaker Supremacy crossover and hooking up with DC Next Level in the aftermath of K.O. I wonder if DC should’ve have just given Corps a K.O. story then; instead, we’ve got the world almost ending in this book (for different reasons than it’s ending elsewhere) just after the world almost ended in the last volume, and at some point it begins to feel a bit overblown.
