In honor of Halloween, I went out and bought my first non-trade comic book in quite some time today. It's a very apt tale for Halloween, a sort of ghost story, full of previous moments from tales long since past... a story about the friends and family of a dead man who refuses to stay dead, who haunts the world and himself with what went wrong in his life. This story contains some gore, I admit... a black hearted villain (the ghost tells us the man is so) has an arrow driven through his palm and later, his hand is transformed into coal, while an acquaintance of the ghost in the story is torn apart from the inside, his organs bloody and visible, while a grotesque freakish mockery of a man with a distended pulsating skull laughs in a macabre fashion at events yet to come. A city rises from the dead, unfinished, a skeleton of its former self, and if you've ever read Stephen King's Christine you'll recognize echoes of it in the scene where the dead man's former aircraft repairs itself, going from old and decrepit to like-new.
Yes, I bought Green Lantern: Rebirth. Really, there was no chance I wasn't going to. My first non-trade purchase outside of a used bookstore in years. And yeah, it really is a ghost story. I'm still on the fence about whether or not Johns can succeed here... there's a lot of baggage to overcome... but he got though the first issue without falling flat on his face, anyway.
Posted by Matt Rossi at October 31, 2004 11:05 PM
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