Peter Tomasi turns out another fantastic lead in to Blackest Night. There is so much plot running here, it is hard to keep up with. Honor Guard Lanterns Guy Gardner and Kyle Rayner are in the midst of transporting the wounded around the newly vulnerable Oa (it's battery-shield broke apart last issue). As an aside, it seems my new character find of 2009, Voz the Jailor Lantern, is alive, since Rayner is taking him to be fixed up. Yay!The two Earthers head over to investigate what the Alpha Lanterns are doing with the sciencell prisoners, and it turns out they are executing them. Old GL villain Nero is one of the folks who gets dropped here, along with some cool designed Sinestro Corps folks and I assume the Red Lantern who started the breakout. Rayner gets the Guardians to agree to spare Bolphunga the Unrelenting and Kanjar Ro, since they helped turn back the prisoners during the breakout. There is a fantastic panel where the Guardians are publicly executing folks all around those two villains, and it is a horrific scene. The Guardians are fine with performing the executions publicly, and I'm torn on the issue. I think the Sinestro Corps villains deserve to die, but the new proactive and almost vindictive Guardians (led by Scar) are a spooky lot. I am amused that with the dispersal of Black Lantern rings at the close of the issue, I'm sure all those dead prisoners will be back in black next issue.
Patrick Gleason rocks this one again. As I said, the execution scene was spooky and well set up, and the Guardians look overpowering and ominous in every shot they're in. This is a Top 5 comic for me every month.
Excellent
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