Back to some more entries in DC's New 52! I had actually never read an issue of Flash or Wonder Woman before and my understanding of Green Lantern was limited to one volume I read several years ago and the Ryan Reynolds movie. These 3 books all contain rather ludicrous fantasy elements, but I had varying degrees of suspension of disbelief.
First up, Green Lantern: Sinestro. This one was far and away my favorite. While the mythology of the universe is ridiculous, this book had the best written characters. Turns out that I will go along with just about anything if you can give me some interesting characters to follow. In this volume, Hal Jordan has been booted from the Green Lantern Corps for being a reckless dick and his arch-nemesis, Sinestro, has been reinstated as a Green Lantern. Sinestro finds that his homeworld has been enslaved by the yellow lantern corps that he created. Long story short, he enlists Hal Jordan's help in saving his home planet. Throughout the adventure we learn what we've always suspected: Hal sucks at using the Green Lantern power to it's full potential. Where Hal makes his fists bigger or creates a green gun, Sinestro creates more power rings to give to his imprisoned people, thereby creating and army of Green Lanterns in an instant. It's a pretty great, well-paced space adventure.
8/10
Then we get to Wonder Woman. Having seen the great things done so far with Catwoman, Batwoman, and Batgirl, I was excited to see what DC would do with their most iconic female hero. Not much actually. She runs around a lot trying to save people, finds out that she is actually the illegitimate daughter of Zeus, and sees a Jealous Hera kill pretty much everyone she knows. The book relies too much on our knowledge of Greek mythology without bringing much of anything new to the table. It was like a comic version of the new Clash of the Titans movie: watchable, but hardly worth your time.
5/10
So I bought in to magic space police and greek myths in the modern world, but how did I do with a guy who can run really fast? I kinda hated it. The Flash is the alter ego of Barry Allen, who makes Clark Kent look cool and interesting. He got his powers by being doused in chemicals and struck by lightning at the same time....let that sink in for a second....yup, way dumber than magic space rings. Anyway, he can also vibrate himself at just the right frequency that he can pass through objects and he shoots vortexes from his hands. Then story revolves around The Flash realizing that he builds up too much "speed force" when he runs and his accidently creating little wormholes everywhere. It's preposterous, even for a super hero book, and I'm sick of writing about it.
2/10
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