![]() 2) #31 (August 2014), which is also her first cover appearance. Her first full appearance takes place in Justice League (vol. ![]() Created by Geoff Johns, Doug Mahnke, Ivan Reis and Ethan Van Sciver, she is a member of the Green Lantern Corps and Justice League. Jessica Cruz, one of the characters known as Green Lantern, is a superheroine appearing in American comic books published by DC Comics. To find reviews of all the DC issues, visit DC This Week.ĭisclaimer: GeekDad received this comic for review purposes.Green Lantern Jessica Cruz in Green Lanterns #7 (2016). As Ray said, this is possibly Seeley’s best arc on the title. What we have now is Jess working through her anxiety, trapped by it, hoping to maintain control, while Simon is the only person who can help her back to herself. (And, yes, other writers are going to want to use this villain.) Jain is a great villain but I suspect she might be one that, in the future, like Anarchy, is going to be hard for other creators to use properly. I’m not thrilled that she was taken in by Jain but since it was only her subconscious who wanted to reach out to Jain, that works, especially since Jain seems to be able to affect Wonder Woman too. The idea, I suspect, is to have Jessica work through this tragedy and, thus, have a better balance with her anxiety in the future. It will certainly hurt a great deal when the tragedy happens. I only vaguely know her origin, as much of the whole latest Darkseid saga had me checking out as a reader, so much of this was new to me and I was glad to see a younger Jessica, with friends, and what her life was like before. Image via DC ComicsĬorrina: Slow march to doom it may be but it’s a measure of how much I’ve come to love Jessica that I was riveted with every panel of her past. That does not look good for Jess but it makes for a grand splash page. This is quickly becoming one of Seeley’s best arcs. With Constantine setting it up, Simon is able to head inside Jessica’s mindspace and find out exactly what’s happened to her, but in the meantime he discovers what’s inside her ring, in a surprising twist that calls back to Jessica’s earliest stories. Constantine doesn’t seem like a natural fit for a Green Lantern book, but one of the best elements of this title has been how it slips out of the model of a traditional GL book pretty frequently. ![]() Unsure if this is a natural or supernatural affair, since Jain’s very nature is up in the air, the League calls in an ally who Seeley is very experienced with writing – John Constantine. However, as much is going on in the outside world, as the Justice League talks to Jessica’s sister to try to get some answers and interrogate Singularity Jain – who proceeds to be the most twisted new villain in the GL canon in years. These segments dealing with Jessica’s past sort of feel like a slow march to doom, and the way the tension is raised throughout is very effective. More importantly, we see who Jessica was before her trauma – it’s clear she still had issues with anxiety, but she was a much more open person who loved nature and animals. For the first time, we put some faces and facts to her friends, including her childhood best friend, who is now dating Jessica’s ex-boyfriend, and a dudebro mutual friend. And at the same time, she’s caught reliving the most traumatic moments of her life courtesy of Singularity Jain. Now, that repressed trauma has led her to accidentally create a massive black hole over her apartment, which she’s retreated inside. But we don’t know who they were, or how she got away. ![]() Ray: Green Lanterns #45 explores the key question raised in the last issue was – exactly what happened to Jessica Cruz that drove her into hiding for several years? We know that she and a group of her friends stumbled upon a pair of criminals burying a body in the woods, and the murderers then turned on her group of friends. Image via DC Comics Green Lanterns #45 – Tim Seeley, Writer Ronan Cliquet, Artist Hi-Fi, Colorist Ratings: ![]() Superman variant cover and he’s actually in this comic too. ![]()
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