Green Lantern #6

writer: Geoff Johns
artist: Mike Choi

"I find it hard to believe I'm looking at the once great Starstorm."

I have no idea who the hell Starstorm is, but the magic of this issue is that Geoff Johns gets me to, for the history Sinestro suggests that exists between them as well as the fact that he helps facilitate a link forward in the chain that's been pointing at the next big story in Johns's Green Lantern saga.

Since before the New 52 relaunch, Sinestro's been on an improbable path of redemption, which has both benefited and baffled Hal Jordan, who on the one hand has lost regular status in the GL Corps and therefore is free to pursue his human life and Carol Ferris, but on the other is the only person Sinestro still trusts, and so he's constantly pulled back in to help out on whatever the Korugaran's latest quest turns out to be.

This issue, he stumbles on the fact that the Guardians are planning a "third army," and readers are given every indication that the mysterious Indigo Tribe will be involved (they'll be in the spotlight next time!). While Sinestro continues to clean up the mess of the yellow-ringed Corps that now bears a connection to himself in name only, we move ever closer to an advancement of the plot. Johns is a master of narrative and characterization, something few readers seem willing to grant him, and his Green Lantern comics are becoming more and more his crowning achievement. With each passing month, he seems to be revealing just how big his vision really is, and it's been years in the making.