Jade's Issues
Green Lantern #86: Kyle comes back from taking a take-away dinner for him and his girlfriend Donna Troy, to find a unexpected guest in his shower!(for story go here)
The issue that introduces Jade (as a supporting cast member that is), is one of the best (not that it is because it introduces her). Marz tends to write about his characters lifes, instead of all-out action all the time, which makes GL one of the best title. This is what makes this comic so cool, he doesn't meet Jade in some fight against a giant robot or has known her from being in a group together. Instead she breaks in and he catches her in the shower. And to add more fun to the mix, Jade's over-protective brother Obsidian decides to drop by and ends up causing more trouble. Comics doesn't have to have big battles and maniacal villains to make the comic popular, it just needs a good storyline and excellent characters.
Green Lantern #107: Kyle gets given a ring by Hal Jordan that has the ability to create new power rings. Kyle now has the choice to recreate the Green Lantern Corps. But how does he give the rings too? John Stewert? Alan Scott? Surely not Guy Gardner? The Choice isn't easy, but will surprise just about everyone.
Yeah right, I guessed it straight away. Come on who do they take use for, which person close to Kyle doesn't have powers, someone who Kyle can trust, and knows how to use the power. JADE, the most obvious choice, plus she only just recently lost powers and she and Kyle are going out now. Remember what they said about the teamup we all wanted and didn't expect.
Green Lantern 3-D #1: Kyle gets pulled into his power battery by Dr Light. Inside Kyle finds a whole new universe consisting of the power-images of previous GLs of past. But this is Dr Light's world and Kyle is powerless. He can only be rescued by a GL who willingly enters to battery - the NEW GL of Earth, whose identity was relieved in GL #107.
Actually this comic is surprisingly awesome, surprising for the fact that I fought it would be a lame issue considering the whole 3-D thing. But the use of the 3-d pages was well done, plus it gave Kyle the look of an actual leader when fighting against Dr Light, but I personally hated it when Kyle refers to Jade has "rookie", when she has more experience at heroics then him, even though she hasn't had the ring has long, she did have a power so similar to the ring that adjusting would be easy.
Green Lantern #108: Jade, Earth's new Green Lantern, teams up with Wonder Woman in a special issue guest-written by new WW writer Eric Luke! The new GL needs the Amazon Princess's help to defeat a villain who has the power to control the world's plantlife. What is the villain's connection to GL's past?
(before reading) Told ya. But what a good idea and a stupid one at the same time. Okay I do like WW, but personally I reckon Jade should have her first solo adventure as GL be without one of the most powerful heroes at her side. Jade has been a hero for a few years and she should now how to control the ring, she doesn't really need help from a goddess.
(after reading) I take it back, this issue is cool. Both Jade and WW get on so well it isn't funny. Plus you get to see abit about Jade's feeling towards her mother. This issue with appeal to silver-age GL fans with Jade using more traditional creations then the imaginative Kyle. Two little tiny problems, Luke seems to write Jade has a bit of a young school girl in a womans body. It seems that everyone has forgetten that she has had a few years of experience under her belt, and it seems to have gone out the window when she got the ring (did Superman act like a 4 year-old when he turned electric, NO). Plus in the end it's WW that bails Jade outta trouble, which is okay in her own title, but not in GL (okay so I'm over reacting a little, but it is still wrong).
Green Lantern #109: A moving holiday special finds Jade, the new Green Lantern, facing a horror from her childhood. Growing up in an orphanage, the young heroine and her fellow orphans were terrorized by a monstrous adult. Now, Jade confronts her tormentor and must make a tough decision on just how to punish him.
(before reading)Finally we get to go deeper into Jade past, and I reckon this probably leads up to her becoming a hero instead of a victim. Even I think is probably just a story they've made up from scratch, it be prove to be a very interesting book. I just wonder if they will actually draw in the birthmark on her hand this time?
(after reading)Not at all bad, but it was just a good story for background info on Jennie and her days in the boarding school.
Green Lantern #110: A Green Lantern/Green Arrow team-up like you've never seen before. Connor Hawke comes looking for Kyle to help investigate the possibility his father : Oliver Queen, is still alive. But Kyle's nowhere is be found, so he calls on Jade, whose own father, (former GL) Alan Scott, has lost control over his powers as Sentinel.
This issue is truly awesome, but I'm not gonna spoil the ending for you because this is a must read for Sentinel and Jade fans.
Green Lantern #111: Superman makes a special appearance - or does he? - as former GL John Stewert reaches a major crossroads in his life. Fatality - the Green Lantern Killer - Is back and when we say she's more dangerous than ever, we mean it! This time, she's hunting for John Stewert, but instead she finds Jade as GL, and the newest Green Lantern doesn't stand a chance of defeating Fatality alone.
Finally we get to see what actually happened to Fatality. I won't go into her history, okay so I will. Basically she is the only survivor from the planet that John Stewert destroyed (accidently of course) whilst he was a GL. She had been trained to be a warrior, and with that she went out and slayed lots of members of the GLC (before and after Emerald Twilight) to destroy the entire legacy. She went after Kyle in about GL#71(who in them days was still a bit of a rookie) and was supposedly eaten at the end of it, the only bit surviving was her arm (which was ripped off). Now she has to fight the new GL and we get to learn abit more about John Stewert's power bursts. Unfortunately for Jade her ring runs out of power, but someone comes in at the last minute to save them...
Green Lantern #112: Kyle Rayner returns to Earth... but is he too late to save Jade? Fresh from the events of the just-concluded GREEN LANTERN: THE NEW CORPS, Kyle tries to help Jade beat Fatality, the Green Lantern serial killer. But Kyle finds Fatality too much to handle and former GL John Stewart has to make a major, life-changing sacrifice to turn the tide of battle. This issue ties into ANARKY #1.
Before Reading: NOOOOOOOO if this means the end of Jade as a GL or worse, getting hacked to ribbons, then I don't wanna read it. But then again I've still gotta read GL:The New Corps to see if the corps is still around before making any judgements.
After Reading: Actually not a bad issue at all, the pathetic thing is that the scedule for GL, GL: New Corps and Anarky are in such a bad way, we learnt what happened to Jade's ring last month (in Anarky #1), and we learn the fate of the New Corps two weeks before the book is released (in GL #112). But I won't tell you, you'll have to buy them yourself.
Green Lantern #120: The JSA's Sentinel comes over to make sure his daughter Jade's move out is official and final; Kyle's seeing faeries flying around the apartment, and Radu's past catches up with him in the form of a sniper-assassin known as the Dragon! Out of respect for Radu's cultural tradition, Kyle is forced to stay out of Radu's battle. So how does the Emerald Warrior end up with a gunshot wound.
I want to get this, just for the reaction from Alan towards the whole fiasco in GL#118. This is going to rule.
Green Lantern #121: Things start strange and end up stranger when Kyle finds himself married to Jade and fighting alongside heroes introduced in Green Lantern : The New Corps! Kyle has no idea how he got where he is, but has no choice but to go with the flow as he leads a hand-picked team on a mission to rescue one of their own and runs into some old "friends."
Before Reading: I can't wait to read this issue, the story line alone looks damn interesting.
After Reading: And I was correct, pick this one up and you won't be disappointed, you'll be banging down the comic shop's door for the next few issues.