Left for dead the sacrifice

Unfortunately for you I lied, today will not be left 4 dead sacrifice because I'm saving it for Halloween along with a few other suprises. So instead you get Green lantern no 13!



So the cover is ok. There are a few good things about it such as the looming figures in the background of the guardians as well as the approach of the albino beings. But one of the main problems I have with this is the design of the costume it likes some weird S&M night costume compared to the domino masks they usually wear this a problem I had with issue number ten's cover as well it looks like some weird S&M party at the green lantern corp got out of hand.

We open with president Obama talking to Amanda Waller about Simon Baz the new Green Lantern and suspected terrorist( Simon Baz is the first Lebanese American in DC comics so they made a big deal out of it). They discuss the disappearance of Hal Jordan a prominent JLA member and how Baz is related to it. Next we cut to Baz walking on the Miami beach shoreline with the ring on his finger. As he wakes up he is given a message by both Hal Jordan and Sinestro at the same time! It is of course incomprehensible. We immediately cut to Baz's sister Sira going to her job, we see her persecuted for being the sister of a suspected terrorist and is sent home while crying in the car she is contacted by Baz.

He explains that he is sorry for all the trouble he has caused (such as stealing a car with bomb inside it and hospitalising his friend, yeah he's a great role model) and claims that maybe the ring can help them maybe there is a reason for it all. Baz tells his sister to meet him in there secret place I really don't want to know what they did there. So we cut to a truck driver with his going along the country road when they're attacked by the albinos from the cover (called the third army) and are immediately transformed into one of them in other words "assimilated".

So we meet Baz wearing his mask as he spots a camera but I think the green lantern costume he has been wearing for most of the issue is fairly recognisable. He looks around for Sira but he finds several members of the justice league such as Superman, Batman and Wonder woman telling him he has JLA problems.

So this issue was ok nothing reall that bad beside the awful costume design which I have already talked about and the fact that Baz is awful role model why couldn't they have a prefectly normal and law-abiding Lebanese-American it gives me the impression that writers can only make Muslims thives, murderers or terrorists. Anyway the emotial scenes in this are great and thanks to penciling by Doug Mahnke this issue's was amazing I give it 3/5.  Next week I decide to torture myself with JLA taskforce.