The Alpha Green Lanterns are mega dicks and they are about to use their sense of "justice" to kill one of the biggest Green Lanterns.

In reality this is really a story of setting up the big final crossover event coming next. The wrath of the first green lantern. This has John on trial for killing one of the members of the corps. BUT he did it to protect them. However, the Alpha squad look at it as black and white only. So they sentence him to death! Guy isn't having that though.

The guardians are really pieces of shit. All plotting to get rid of the central members of the Green Lantern corps to make room for their new creation. It's actually frustrating to see what they're doing in the background but it's nice to see how easy a government can use their people and throw them away, makes you realize how they do it in real life so easy too. I also think the fights here are pretty brutal and a great ending. The art can be a little sketchy at times and some ugly faces drawn here or there.

Overall, this is solid build up to the next crossover. Peter writes the corps good here and it's no different. 3.5 out of 5. Round it to a 4.

Oof. This one didn't age well did it? An internal affairs organization for the Green Lantern Corp has always been a fascinating idea (even if the Alpha Corp hasn't ever been utilized well). With the corruption of the Guardians becoming more apparent this *could* have been an interesting time to actually use the Alphas in a meaningful way. Instead, internal affairs is framed as a useless faction that makes things more difficult than they need to be. I understand that the Alpha Corp had to be removed for certain plot things to make sense in future stories but this was sloppy and disrespectful, especially now that corruption and excessive force is more apparent in the US' police force now more than ever. I couldn't wait to be done with this and it's really made me dread what comes next in Green Lantern.

This volume showed the true depths the Guardians will go to accomplish their end goals. Guy and John are both shown as admiral soldiers who are dealing with a war they're not even sure they're in. Guy was much more admirable this volume as he was more hot-headed than annoying. The Alpha Lanterns were always an interesting idea that never panned out. This is a good solution to that. I really love where this title is going. The art was fantastic. Overall, a very good read that sets up so more.

MURDERER!!! Not a word you see associated with a Green lantern, but in this Volume we see John Stewart on trial for his life. Risking everything he had and all of his morals to make sure he protected the Corps and countless innocents. He had to make a hard choice, one that will haunt him forever. This choice landed him in front of the entire Corps, charged by the Alpha Lanterns, and expected to be made an example off. To top this all off the Guardians are up to something and it looks like the end game will be the complete destruction of the Corps. This book was amazing!!! I am firmly hooked on the Green Lantern Corps series.

John Stewart and Guy Gardner take the center stage in this series and Guy is desperately trying to free his fellow Earth Lantern. A guilty verdict for John will mean his death by the hands of the Alpha Lanterns, the internal affairs of the Green Lantern Corps. When reviewing the evidence against John someone has tampered with the ring log and it is not looking good for him. This book is loaded with amazing action/fighting sequences and the art work is very well done.

The writing was spot on and kept me turning pages as fast as I could. I liked the first Volume in the New 52 reboot of the Green Lantern Corps, but this book was much better. Without giving anything away the Guardians have big plans for the Corps and it isn't necessarily for the best. Seeing these characters have a darker side is very intriguing and I can't wait to see how this story line plays out in future books. This is defiantly just another chapter in a larger story. I will be reading Vol 3 when it comes out as soon as I can.

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I never heard of the Alpha lanterns before, but I did like how devious the Guardians were being getting the regular lanterns to fight with them. I'm digging this event so far.

I really liked this book. The Guardian's mistrust is front and center here, really building off of what was worked up in the the other GL books. Guy and Jon Stewart stay in the foreground and we see just how much the Corps means to them. They go to great lengths to fulfill their duty and Tomasi's writing makes me give a care about them. Refresh yourself with Issue #7 to pluck your heart strings, then dive into this one for an action-dense story of judgment.

Spoiler

In the grander scheme, the Guardians are not to be relied upon, as they devise the death of the GL Corps. Taken in conjunction with the attacks on the other Corps in GL: New Guardians, and what we read in the Green Lantern Volume 2 (these three books are deeply linked) about Abin Sur knowing that there would be an "End of the Corps", it makes me wonder what the long play is. The First Lantern leading the Third Army, wiping out thousands of Lantern across the galaxy. The Green Lanterns are the largest of the Corps; surely there will be frustration in the cosmos for such a betrayal... Then again the The Guardians of the Universe don't care about your feelings. They're playing an interesting game...

4/5 for the length: these individual issues are just too short, sometimes only being 15 or 16 pages of meaningful content.

3.5.
Got some Guy backstory (new52) which was fine I guess? It made the ending more impactful. Also some tense courtroom drama with John. The Guardians really suck! At the very least they could've made the Third Army look cooler, they look kind of goofy.

While I loved volume 1, I liked volume 2. That's not a bad thing. There was something a little more incomplete in this book and maybe a tad tiring, especially in the first half. Oa seems constantly on the edge of catastrophe...when do the GLs ever get a day off? Ha! A long awaited resolve to a story dating back pre-New 52, namely the Alpha Lanterns, was blessedly concluded. We get a reimagined look at Guy's origin, which was cool. The major underlying plot here is the Guardians' manipulations...of the Corps, of Guy, of John's trial. It was all largely a set up to the Third Army crossover coming.

This would've worked better if the previous volume had introduced the alpha lanterns and built them up. Here, they service as a decent threat but a lot of the characters motivations (hating the alphas for past treatment) aren't well established.