Brandon Borzelli’s Geek Goggle Reviews
Sinestro #1
DC Comics
Bunn & Eaglesham
Sinestro gets his own ongoing series and the first issue feels like a lot of setup. The premise coming into the book is that Sinestro is estranged from his Corps. This opening issue brings that concept into the forefront immediately. Overall, the book is a good read but it’s not clear the long term concept for this book or the sustainability for this comic. This is worth checking out but it might be for the die-hard green lantern universe fans.
For reasons that aren’t explained, Sinestro is on some planet wearing some mummy bandages around half of his body. He fights off some huge tigers that he seems to be training to kill him. These scenes have a good narrative but are so odd I can’t make sense of why they are included in this comic.
Thankfully after only a few pages of this, Lyssa Drak shows up. Lyssa is wanting to bring Sinestro back to run the Sinestro Corps. It’s a unusual sequence where Lyssa isn’t able to convince Sinestro to come out of hiding to run his Corps, but he is lured out of exile to find some survivors from his destroyed home world.
The experience of finding the survivors convinces Sinestro to return to his Corps. The Corps is being run by Arkillo. Arkillo comes across as a cackling villain in this issue but he reveals an interesting plot line at the end of the book.
The comic feels like it’s come three or four years too late. too much time has passed because the Sinestro Corps war and too much has happened. This feels like a comic searching for an identity and simply playing with ideas that have had their time in other books over the last few years. Hopefully, Sinestro taking back his Corps is a short story leading to something different on the horizon.
The artwork is fantastic. There are some land battles, space battles, lots of flexing muscles and plenty of evil looks from the characters. As required in these ring books, the color scheme is eye-popping helping to round out the artistic reading experience.
Sinestro seems like a great character to have an ongoing for a villain. I never quite understood why the Red Lanterns got their own book but not Sinestro or the Yellow Corps. now that the book is here it seems like there isn’t any new ideas in the first issue. We’ll see where this is heading. The curious reader might like what they see. As far as reading goes, it’s an average comic.
3 out of 5 Geek Goggles
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