Created on September 9, 2012 and written by TommyZimmer
Category: Comic Book Reviews

Rating: 4/5
Publisher Name: DC Comics
Writer: Geoff Johns
Pencils: Doug Mahnke
Number of Pages: 32 pgs.
Price: 2.99
Color: Color
Safety Content Label: T+ TEENS AND UP – Appropriate for most readers 13 and up, parents are advised that they might want to read before or with younger children.

Publisher’s Blurb:
PROLOGUE TO THE THIRD ARMY! • The introduction and origin of a surprising new Green Lantern! • Where are Hal Jordan and Sinestro?

Reviewer’s Comments:
Simon Baz is a questionable pick for a Green Lantern. From his decision to steal a car to the bomb exploding in it that just happened to be there, he seems to have a mysterious background. Nonetheless, he has made mistakes in his life, and definitely pays for them when he is arrested and interrogated at the hands of the US and Amanda Waller’s men.

Upon seeing the terrors of 9/11 first hand on the television to the troubled life he had afterwards, Simon Baz is different than previous Green Lanterns. He has a lot of issues in his life but the ring which contains errors since it left Hal and Sinestro definitely gets one thing right: he has the ability to overcome great fear or willpower. After he receives the ring, he mysteriously disappears. He ends in a field unconscious as someone looks onwards. Meanwhile, Hal and Sinestro do not seem to be in any great strides where they are at now….. Hal Jordan of Earth….. Sinestro of Korugar…. RISE??

Geoff Johns does a great job of introducing the first Arabic-American Green Lantern to the DC Universe. He paints a man who the reader can relate to, and has suffered at the hands of society. Johns gives the ring to him as almost a second chance at a life he almost abandoned.

Doug Mahnke really goes to town. He does some of the best work of his career in this zero issue, and really shows how talented in the diversity of his art can be. From the different looks of Baz to the various different scenes, Mahnke really shows the reader why he works well with Johns.

While this issue was written quite well, it did not exactly portray the society of my hometown accurately. You can read more of that in my upcoming column this week on Dearborn and what was wrong with the way Johns portrayed it.

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Tommy Zimmer is an upcoming writer of short stories, comic books, journalism/media reviews, screenplays, and anything related to writing. On zimmert101.wordpress.com, you can view his latest work, and see what exciting things he is currently doing!!

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About the Writer: TommyZimmer (137 Posts) Tommy Zimmer is an upcoming writer of short stories, comic books, journalism/media reviews, screenplays, and anything related to writing. He is headquartered in Detroit, MI where he attends University of Detroit Mercy. He is majoring in English Creative Writing with two minors in Business Administration and Multimedia Journalism. He currently helms his "zimmert101" blog at zimmert101.wordpress.com. He also writes for Paper Dragon Ink and Super Powered Fiction, and wrote for Modern Myth Media.

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