A Black Woman Wears the Green Lantern Ring in ‘Far Sector #1’ Review

Writer: N. K. Jemisin / Artist: Jamal Campbell / DC Comics “You fucked the world up now, we’ll fuck it all back down”- Janelle Monáe Far Sector #1 finally dropped *Joe Budden voice*AND I BEEEEEN WAITIN’ Listen, I love when authors/writers from different genres of literature come over into comics. It exposes you to creators whose works you know or heard of coming into the genre/realm you frequent. So when it was announced we were getting a new Green Lantern mini, with a Black woman lead, Jamal Campbell on art and muh fucking N.K. Jemisin on the track? I had to review this. You don’t hear me, I have a Green Lantern tattoo. I had to review this. N.K. Jemisin jumping on Green Lantern is equivalent to an Andre 3 Stacks jumping on a track. an instant Classic. Period. In a Far Sector Far AF Away Let’s immediately get to the shits. We open up with a new Green Lantern on the scene, Green Lantern Sojourner “Jo” Mullein. A Black woman from Earth that we’re still learning about. Lantern Mullein is dealing with a crime scene on a planet that’s the farthest of the 3,600 sectors of space that Green Lanterns patrol. The crime is a murder, the first in 500 years in the City Enduring. Heavy shit, right? There’s no protocol for this as this does not happen. In this city that’s 20 billion people deep, there aren’t murders or killings that is until now. This isn’t a typical “who did it?” mystery. The real question is, why was this done. The events of this murder have us meet chief of police peace…