Review of Green Lantern # 39 (DC Comics) By Eddie R.

Agent Orange finally arrives.

For months now, fans have been anticipating the arrival of the various color offshoots of the Green Lantern Corps. If any Color has been hyped the most in the build up to the “War of light”, it’s been Orange... Namely Agent Orange, and the specific part of the emotional spectrum it controls, Greed.




As other parties have tried to manipulate the emotional spectrum for their personal gains, it seems Agent Orange seeks to deny this. It seeks total control over the Orange energy is draws power from, instead of enlisting others to help in its cause. Agent Orange doesn’t share its power, as the Controllers soon find out within the first few pages of the book. And Agent Orange seeks to punish those who wish to retake what was already given, which the Guardians discover at the end of the book. Apparently Greed and revenge go hand and hand in Agent Orange’s Book.

On the other end of the Spectrum, we find Hal Jordan continuing to deal with the duel green/ blue power ring issue. Learning in the last issue the blue rings only work in the presence of a green ring, we now discover as to why Ganthet and Sayd have chosen Jordan to wear the blue ring. If anyone was best suited for a ring powered by Hope and redemption, it’s Hal Jordan.

But as Jordan soon realizes the only way to remove the blue ring is to use it in a case of hope, the ever knowing Guardians discover Jordan has been “corrupted”, and transport him to Oa, where they try to remove the blue ring forcefully. I actually find this scene quite clever; as it is those who are corrupted themselves, try in vain to cleanse another they deem corrupted.

And so begins the battle of the light, the Blackest of Night, and the never ending fight of the control, and suppression, of the emotional spectrum. I can’t wait for the next chapter.

9/10