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Writer: Grant Morrison / Artist: Liam Sharp / DC Comics The acclaimed team featuring Grant Morrison and Liam Sharp are back for Season Two of their popular series The Green Lantern. If you haven’t been reading the series, it’s a pretty different take than we’ve grown accustomed to in recent years when it comes to the intergalactic space cops with the green wish rings. It doesn’t take itself too seriously and in fact, it fully embraces the craziness of what the fringes of the universe would really be and ultimately becomes a really wacky read. This yields for a more entertaining read for someone like me who doesn’t like Hal Jordan very much. If you’re gonna make him the protagonist, at least make it fun. Morrison and Sharp definitely do that, so I can’t complain. Season One of the series was primarily based in space and away from Earth as Hal Jordan fought to protect the multiverse. This season is a lot more grounded, in a literal sense. It follows Hal taking orders from a new group of Young Guardians who have him returning home and dealing with the weird and unique space-related problems of Sector 2814. The only problem is that Hal hates being on Earth. In Issue #3, we find Hal reunited with some of his pilot colleagues as he’s needed to help find and rescue a few of them that disappeared recently. He gets to pilot an experimental inter-dimensional plane that takes him to a trippy oversaturated purple and red dimension where the pilots have been stranded. Oh, and there’s a…
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