Green Lantern Corps #15 *spoilers*

[Erebus]

Mucho Spoilers ahead. Beware.



Stel, Green Man, and Bzzd are waiting with Mogo for the Sinestro Corps onslaught. Arkillo leads the charge. Awesome moment when Bzzd runs over all those SC with a train. Reinforcements arrive to save them, with Kilowog, Sodom Yat, Arisia, and others. We learn that the rings depend on Mogo to find people worthy of being in the GLC. If the SC destroys Mogo, they destroy the Corps. Kilowog and Arkillo clash, but there's no real conclusion.

Ranx the Sentient City uses gravity rays to drill into Mogo's core and try to destroy its energy source. Mogo's core is armored with Oan metal, but I think the Children of the White Lobe will try to detonate a blink bomb on it.

The Guardians come together and discuss the war. Ganthet warns the Guardians they must not fall to fear, and one of the smurfs suggest they do the unthinkable-rewrite the Book of Oa.

In the catacombs of Quard, the Lost Lanterns search for the Ion entity, or as I call it, Ion, the Lovable Willpower Whale. They're lost in enemy territory with barely any charge left. Just when it seems it can't get any worse, they come face to face with... the Anti-Moniter!!!



Overall, great issue. Just one question though. There were a lot of dead SC members shown later in the battle. I wonder if the Guardians turned off the killing mode, or if they all just died from friendly fire.

[Jack Zodiac]

Really crazy battle. Put the one in Green Lantern to shame. But I suppose that's natural. The Battle for Mogo is supposed to be the turning point in the Empire of Tears Prophecy, where Mogo is supposed to fall. Loved seeing Kilowog in the field, directon everyone, and Arkillo and him throwing down was inevitable. Best part of the fight, though, was Bzzd. Little guy with a ring leads a freight train through a storm of Sinestro Corpsmen. Good stuff.

And the Guardians look like they're finally, actually going to act. I'd been hoping, ever since Kyle brought them back to life, that they'd shed the act of the old Guardians and act with more emotion and humanity. I guess that's what this whole "emotional spectrum" thing is supposed to be a set up for, though.

Crazy violent art, though. Sharp contrast to Green Lantern. Lots of fighting in that, but no real, vivid violence. Here, Arkillo's carrying two dead Green Lanterns around on his back while he's covered in the blood. !@#$in' crazy.

[Astonishing X-Fan]

This entire story is just so damn cool. Practically EVERYTHING Green Lantern from Rebirth on has been so damn cool. Thank you Gibbons/Johns is all I have to say.

[Cayman]

Really good issue. What's the name of the anti-Kilowog though?

[Buried Alien]

It's time for the Anti-Monitor to actually do something. So far in this story, all he's done is stand around and look scary (come to think of it, though, he spent much of COIE doing that too). It's time for him to get in on the action.

Buried Alien (The Fastest Post Alive!)

[Raker616]

Amazing issue, the Sin Corps has definately made GLC a great title the action was great and the art was better than #14.

[CaptainCanada]

Really good issue. What's the name of the anti-Kilowog though?
Arkillo. When a recruit isn't satisfactory, he eats them.

[Carter Hall]

I loved this issue. Loved the all-out action and the cleverness of Gibbons' writing. This whole Sinestro Corps arc has been one of the best Green Lantern stories ever, so far. I love all the characters and sub-plots and stuff.

I was a bit lukewarm to GL Corps after Recharge, as I thought the ongoing was pretty bland from issues 1-6. 7-9 were good, although didn't effect the overall arc, and everything since 10 has really picked the book up, I feel. This issue was maybe the best the series has put out yet.

Hats off to Johns and Gibbons and all the artists working on this story.

[Carter Hall]

I loved this issue. Loved the all-out action and the cleverness of Gibbons' writing. This whole Sinestro Corps arc has been one of the best Green Lantern stories ever, so far. I love all the characters and sub-plots and stuff.

I was a bit lukewarm to GL Corps after Recharge, as I thought the ongoing was pretty bland from issues 1-6. 7-9 were good, although didn't effect the overall arc, and everything since 10 has really picked the book up, I feel. This issue was maybe the best the series has put out yet.

Hats off to Johns and Gibbons and all the artists working on this story.

[Carter Hall]

I loved this issue. Loved the all-out action and the cleverness of Gibbons' writing. This whole Sinestro Corps arc has been one of the best Green Lantern stories ever, so far. I love all the characters and sub-plots and stuff.

I was a bit lukewarm to GL Corps after Recharge, as I thought the ongoing was pretty bland from issues 1-6. 7-9 were good, although didn't effect the overall arc, and everything since 10 has really picked the book up, I feel. This issue was maybe the best the series has put out yet.

Hats off to Johns and Gibbons and all the artists working on this story.

[tjarvis]

Arkillo. When a recruit isn't satisfactory, he eats them.

Which I have to tell you is a pretty damn effective motivational technique.

[BoosterBronze]

I loved this issue. Loved the all-out action and the cleverness of Gibbons' writing. This whole Sinestro Corps arc has been one of the best Green Lantern stories ever, so far. I love all the characters and sub-plots and stuff.

I was a bit lukewarm to GL Corps after Recharge, as I thought the ongoing was pretty bland from issues 1-6. 7-9 were good, although didn't effect the overall arc, and everything since 10 has really picked the book up, I feel. This issue was maybe the best the series has put out yet.

Hats off to Johns and Gibbons and all the artists working on this story.

At first I didn't agree with you, but by the third post you'd convinced me.

[Captain Smith]

Good story except for the lethal force shutdown policy.

Question - is it the case that rings can't be recharged now until Ion is back in his pen on OA. Does he perform for fish?

[Jack Zodiac]

Doubt it. They want to get Ion back because he's the equivalent of Parallax. The rings should work and be able to be recharged so long as there's a Central Power Battery on Oa.

This all seems like a frat prank that went out of control. Sinestro stole the Green Lanterns' mascot, now they're gonna' blow up Mogo. Whatever happened to the simpler days of shaved eyebrows and running underwear up flagpoles? Maybe after this war's over, Sinestro's gonna' send his minions to panty raid Xamaron.

[Cayman]

Arkillo should stick around as a villain for awhile.

[Alex L]

Good story except for the lethal force shutdown policy.

Question - is it the case that rings can't be recharged now until Ion is back in his pen on OA. Does he perform for fish?

I was also wondering about the shutdown.

Does Boodikka have to get her ring unlocked by a Guardian? That would seem horribly impractical for a space cop, to have to find a way across the universe (remember, her ring doesn't work).

Either that, or her ring will magically unlock just as everyone else's is running out of charge and she'll evac the Lost Lanterns.

And Ion doesn't have anything to do with recharging rings as far as I know. It is responsible for Kyle's massive power-boost, though, so perhaps it can supercharge the Lanterns' rings if they manage to get near it.

[BeastieRunner]

So the Guardian's "thing they'll never do" is . . . act? Rewrite the Book of Oa? Man, I was hoping for a kill order.

[Green Gardner]

Honestly, I was just happy to finally see a book in which the good guys fight back, and actually manage to make a prolonged, honest to God fight of it. If they can actually go on to WIN this one, finally block the Sinestro Corps at some point, so much the better. Don't get me wrong; I understand that this is supposed to be about as grim as it gets, but come on. The bad guys haven't even unleashed most of their heavy hitters yet, and there comes a point where the entertainment value drops off if it's nothing but the good guys getting bitch slapped at every turn. Getting thrown one major bone before the climax would be nice.

Also, as the prophesy goes, correct me if I'm wrong because I may just not be remembering right, but doesn't it say that Mogo will be the very LAST of the Corps to fall? Even if all the other Lanterns in this battle bite it first, which I have a tough time seeing, that hardly satisfies the prediction.

[Magneto_X]

GG:

A hero is only as good as its villains. And the more the hero is kicked around the sweeter it will be once the hero gets their victory. This goes for all of fiction.

[Green Gardner]

Yes, I'm aware that's the formula, and obviously I can appreciate that, or I wouldn't be buying comics. But at this point, it's pretty much a given that the hero's getting knocked around a good deal. I'm not saying that's a bad thing, story-wise. All I AM saying is that I'd like to see a LITTLE back and forth before the conclusion. We're not just talking about one hero versus his rogues gallery, after all. This is supposed to be an all out war between two powerful adversaries. That generally involves SOME reversals for both sides. And it seems to me that with a generally well liked character such as Mogo on the line, now's as good a time as ever for the good guys to hit back.

It doesn't mean the Lanterns won't be on the ropes again afterward. Like I said, Hank Henshaw and the Anti-Monitor haven't even unveiled their sinister plan yet. It's more than possible to work in both the last minute save, AND a little momentary satisfaction along the way.

[Magneto_X]

GG:

Then I agree.

I'm guessing the last issues of the arc in both GL and GLC will have the heroes finally winning for a change. Then the Sinestro Corps. will probabaly become a constant nuisance in the new status quo.

Gonna be harder to recruit new GL's once they hear about the war, though.

[Green Gardner]

Can't honestly say I'm sure that'll be a bad thing. Rookies or not, some of these newer guys have just had me kind of worried at the prospect that this is honestly the best a universe can scrounge up.

[Captain Smith]

So is Sodam Yat a Daxamite? And when does he unleash some Kryptonian level kick-but on folks?

Some speed blitz superstrength whacks to the noggin, encased in a ring force field should take about half the Sinestro corps.