Green Lantern Corps #3
	Story Title: 'Homecoming' Writer: Dave Gibbons Penciller: Patrick Gleason Inker: Prentis Rollins, Mick Gray, Wayne Faucher Letterer: Travis Lanham Colorist: Moose Baumann Cover: Gleason & Rollins Asst. Editor: Michael Siglain Editor: Peter Tomasi Published by: DC Comics
	Reviewed by: Bruce Logan

A 'Kick in the nuts'. Not mine mind you but of the person responsible for the death of the two GLs in the last couple of issues, namely Myrrt whatisname and Natu. That’s how this issue ends.

Fid I just say two? Sorry, I meant one. Meh, like and in case anyone ever even suspected that Natu was really dead. I mean all the gratuitous killing of High C (or at best minor B) list characters ended with Infinite Crisis…for a short while anyway. In truth, it is all a ruse to draw out the murderer of that other Lantern, Myrrt, one that left me wishing that it wasn’t so…clichéd. But hey, we can’t win all can we?

And why I say that is because, for the first time since this series began it gave a chuckle…in fact it gave me quite a few, and all of them coming from just one panel, but two Lanterns, namely Vath (the perennially angry guy) and his partner, Isamot (Lizard man). Searching for his seemingly awol partner Vath arrives on Thanegar, only to realize that his buddy, his ol’ pal…well, you gotta read it to believe it. Lets just hope that Isamot’s story doesn’t end up like many a GL where he loses and becomes a Mr. Sulk-Candle, forever burning in his guilt and/or memories.

Back to the ‘nuts’ comment (from the beginning), it came across as not necessarily so much deserving (though I am sure that she deserves it) but more of a ‘take that A-hole’, that the sister of the man (Betrassusian) who killed Myrrt, and was for responsible for the deaths of one of the royal princes and many others, finally ended up getting Myrrt’s ring. Natu’s new partner is Princess Iolande of Betrassus.

Taking a moment for the ‘mildly’ juvenile comment of the review, was it just me who saw that ‘ringing’ scene as (at least) mildly…umm, full of interesting possibilities for the future for the new partners?

As for why I had said that the judgment of the killer was the ending of the issues, it becomes clear while reading the issue, for not only does the whole scenery and mood of the story change even the artwork takes a turn for (in my view) the better. However, instead of any actual story telling this ‘epilogue’ acts more as a prologue for the next arc/issue.

Conclusion: Do my eyes deceive me or is that Tigra (from over at Marvel) serving those drinks on Restoria? Man, talk about running to get away from Iron-Pricks and his Prickettes.

RATING: 8.5/10