Future State: Green Lantern #2

Writers: Geoffery Thorne, Josie Campbell, Robert Venditti and Priest / Artists: Tom Raney, Andie Tong, and Dexter Soy / DC Comics Future State: Green Lantern ends its two-issue run keeping the same anthology formula as the first issue, showing glimpses of different Lanterns in the aftermath of the loss of the central power battery. As Future State begins to wind down, we are beginning to learn about what’s to come for our favorite characters from DC Comics. It’s been a little confusing figuring out just what is gonna be canon and what isn’t. I came into Future State with the assumption that some of these stories were one-offs, while others were jumping off points for DC’s newest reboot: Infinite Frontier. I’m not so sure anymore. A lot of this look like canon now. 

This final issue gave us three stories. The first is the conclusion to John Stewart’s story from issue one, the second is a story following Teen Lantern, and the third is centered around Hal Jordan as he searches for answers about what happened to the central power battery.  John Stewart’s story was really fun. It wasn’t anything that I was expecting when they first announced this book, but that doesn’t mean I didn’t love it. While we didn’t get to see him be the prime Green Lantern that we all have grown to love, we got to see the willpower and perseverance that granted him the ring in the first place put on full display.  The man single-handedly took down a terrorist faction on an alien planet w…