Far Sector

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Our main character, Sojourner “Jo” Mullein (get used to this - the book is chock-full of dumb names), is new to the job and has never investigated a murder before either. The protest consists of Switchoff users, who want the Exploit abolished, and counter-protestors who want Switchoff banned and the Emotion Exploit to be kept active. One that, with the gorgeous artwork of Jamal Campbell, creates a beautiful, terrifying, confounding, eye and brain popping world.

Syzn doubts Marth’s trustworthiness, and warns Jo about the risk she’s taking, as Jo’s ring is still low on power after the trip to Atville and Jo has refused backup. This is an entirely new take on the Green Lantern, following a bisexual Black woman from Brooklyn who has become a Lantern and is sent to a futuristic society without emotion where the first murder in hundreds of years has taken place. A powerful and emotional story of relying on who you are and what you know is right to help guide the world into a better future for all.

It appears that the entire story is really about the Green Lantern dealing with PTSD that comes from being Black in America and PTSD from being a minority in a corrupt NYC Police Department. The part of the book where the Green Lantern enters the alien world’s internet to interact with the local sentient A. Its astonishing to look at, really maybe his best work and knowing that he will be on Superman next, I can't wait to see more of his stuff but as fa as this book goes do read it for a different type of GL story, a new thought out world with interesting ideas and amazing art!

The thing that binds it all together is the dogged determination of Jo Mullein, a Brooklyn girl out of her depth and the only good cop on an emotionless world. I read this twice before we met to talk about it in book club, largely because it took me so much of the book to really understand what was going on, so I thought rereading it with full knowledge of the plot would help me fill in the logic. In this society, there hasn't been a murder for 500 years because the people on this world have had their emotions turned off. I know Young Animal is 18+, but it was just surreal seeing Campbell draw material like that throughout this.

Glory explains that she was waiting for the referendum since the CEPD’s forces would be spread thin so she could take control of a military and use force against the biological civilians. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. I've been intrigued by this book for a long time but I waited on the trade because single issues cost too damn much. This felt like a very real pocket of society and part of the reason for that was that there weren't a lot of big references to the Big 3 or other JL members so this was 100% Jo's story and I really appreciated that. She has been both a soldier and a police officer, though neither one of those roles ended well for her.

The last time I was that excited by an outside entering comics was back when Ta-Nehisi Coates took over Black Panther. Syzn meets Jo in the CEPD headquarters, asking Jo to plead “temporary emotional insanity” as an explanation for her actions, and tells her that dealing with the Switchoff facilities is too complicated to take care of before tomorrow’s Exploit referendum. Jo storms out of the Council meeting, accusing the Council of not taking responsibility and for not letting her do her job.Every issue/chapter starts with an A4 cover, and every second issue/chapter with a summary hit Jo breaking the 4th wall.