The Green Lantern Season Two #7 Review

Writer: Grant Morrison / Artist: Liam Sharp / DC Comics The Green Lantern Season Two #7 finally lets us know what the impending conflict in this run is gonna be: The Ultrawar in the Reversoverse.  We got a little tease of what this battle might look like in last month’s issue as Hal and some other Lanterns fought what are known as Anti-Matter Lanterns. They’re rabid, and they speak backward and they look like twisted versions of the Prime universe’s Green Lanterns.  Hal died trying to save a space hospital, and issue #7 largely deals with the new Young Guardians judging his actions when alive. In doing this, they also tell him about the upcoming war that they’ll need his help for as a Death Lantern, but Hal is not trying to stay dead, and he claws himself back to life from the clutches of death. The only problem is that coming back to life makes him forget all the knowledge that the Young Guardians bestowed upon him. So now he’s going into this war blind. Or should I say, in Blackest Night. Grant Morrison is a dense writer. That’s been known. But he has balanced that with over the top wonky sci-fi elements in this book. So even though sometimes it can be hard to figure out just what’s going on, you’re having a really good time regardless.  This issue was largely set up for what is to come, so there wasn’t a lot of room for the light-hearted nature we’ve come to love with this book. It was really dense and really deep. And a lot of it has the potential to go ove…