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Johns' explanation is a fair one and the drama here is well-played, as one would expect with a Geoff Johns story. However, readers are more likely to be enraptured by the atmospheric artwork of Szymon Kurdanski and colorist Alex Sinclair. Can one properly be called a colorist when working in a monochromatic scale? That's a debate I'd rather not be a part of. All I know is that the black-and-white imagery used to portray "The Dead Zone" is some of the most interesting I've seen in recent memory.
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The artwork in the other sequence, where The Guardians fight Black Hand, is more problematic. I've enjoyed Ardian Syaf's work on Batgirl before but his work here seems oddly off-model. The panels seem to cramp the action rather than displaying it and these sequences suffer as a result. It doesn't look bad. It just looks tiny in a book where everything should be larger than life.
Green Lantern #18 is an enjoyable read but it's not a good first issue for those who haven't been reading the Green Lantern books already. If you have yet to discover Geoff Johns' Green Lantern, I'd suggest tracking down a TP of Green Lantern: Rebirth and starting from there.
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