Publisher: DC Comics
Writer: Tom Taylor
Artist: Ethan Van Sciver
Release Date: 13th January, 2016
The first thing that is apparent from this first issue is the fact that Van Sciver was born to draw the GL Corps. He just gets it. Nice to see B’dg from the get go, never mind Mogo, Killowog, Arisia and Graf Toren. Makes for one happy Corps fan!
I’ll admit that I’m relatively new to Tom Taylor’s work, however he manages to encapsulate everything that was great about the book pre nu-52, and really seems to understand just what made the Corps books great.
I went into the book blind, but all you really need to know is the Lanterns are stuck in a different universe, are split apart and just want to get home. It’s a story that’s been told time and time again, but teamed with a new race being discovered and a disenfranchised planet needing help, it all melds together nicely, like a red velvet cake! Individually, there’s nothing wrong with the separate ingredients, but together? I want all of it and I need to get me some more!
Speaking of needing more, Van Sciver’s art is stellar. With such a vast scale, and Mogo being used as both a character and a place, his work really does get a chance to shine. Floating panels are used to give more depth to splash pages, constructs are massive and pop off the page, and both the size and ferocity of the new race is hammered home.
A welcome return to the Lanterns of old, Edge of Oblivion has a real space western feel to it, while deftly managing to avoid certain pitfalls that the overuse of tropes can bring.
Rating: 4/5.
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