Fans of Green Lantern will love this book! Strong writing. You can understand the story without having read all of the back stories. Kept me interested and didn't want to put it down. Highly recommend this for GL fans.

With the Rebirth Hal Jordan and the Green Lantern Corps Vol. 1: Sinestro's Law, Robert Venditti crafts well a tale that finds its origins in the previous DC You Green Lantern era, but also offers a perfectly accessible jumping-on point. Whereas Venditti's inaugural story in the franchise was heavy on the multi-hued Corps mythology set up by previous writer Geoff Johns, Sinestro's Law is a more straightforward superhero sci-fi epic -- perhaps the most basic and least encumbered Green Lantern story I've read in a while, though surely not without nuance and strong characterization. Additionally, here at the beginning of the Rebirth era, Venditti brings Hal Jordan's own arc full circle in a way that I thought most appropriate for the character. Hal Jordan and the Green Lantern Corps Vol. 1: Sinestro's Law is a lovely story of two arch-nemeses at it again, and this book probably deserves a certain amount of recognition as a "new classic" encapsulation of the Green Lantern/Sinestro rivalry.

A solid trade that any fan of DC Comics can pick up and enjoy. Rebirth continues to be just that for DC and a breath of fresh air for the superhero genre.

Everyone's favorite space cops are back in action in this first volume of "Hal Jordan and the Green Lantern Corps". You would think that the never ending struggle between Hal Jordan and Sinestro would get played out, over time, but you would be wrong. The action is fast paced and the art and writing are top notch. Highly recommended for GL fans, as well as fans of action packed comics.

Once upon a time
Sinestro was the best of the
Green Lantern Corps
But he fell from grace when
his lust for power
overcame his duty to the Corps.
Now he has been given a
chance to prove him self
against the Guardians
and his foe Hal Jordan.
Will Sinestro rise
or fall?

'Hal Jordan & The Green Lantern Corps, Volume 1: Sinestro's Law' by writer Robert Venditti. There are things that have led up to this issue, so if you aren't up to date, then this might not be the place to start.

Hal Jordan is alone and everything is wrong. The Green Lantern Corps is gone. His ring is gone. What is not gone is Sinestro and his own Corps. In their yellow uniforms they feed on fear and protect Sinestro's war planet.

Hal finds a way to get a ring, and remnants of the Green Lantern Corps limp back. Guy Gardner is sent on a recon mission and in typical Guy Gardner fashion stands up to Sinestro's goons. Hal finds help in unexpected places.

It's a big sprawling space epic of a story. There are lots of space battles and grit.. The Green Lantern Corps is definitely outnumbered and possibly outgunned, but they make a fight of it.

I liked the story and the art. I haven't always been the biggest fan of Green Lantern, but the stories I've read lately have been pretty good.

I received a review copy of this graphic novel from DC Entertainment and NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. Thank you for allowing me to review this graphic novel.

Decent enough reboot of the Green Lantern Corps overall, but could do with a little more focus/tying up loose ends. (e-galley from NetGalley and DC Comics)

Great artwork and a great story arc to begin DC's Rebirth cycle. Hal Jordan is badass and so are the friends and enemies which have gotten a fresh new treatment.

This was the first Venditti GL book I kind of liked. It's the first time I've felt like he kind of gets the characters. This picks up where the previous volume of GL left off.

Hal is slowly turning into ring energy and crafts his own power ring. After 2 years, he's finally decided to go look for the corps. At the same time, the rest of the corps pops in at the edge of the universe. Their ranks have been decimated from wherever they were. Jon Stewart's now in charge and sends Guy on a scouting mission. Somehow he makes it to the center of the universe in less than 24 hours. Yeah, the GL's can apparently travel faster than light. Sinestro has taken over Warworld and placed it where Oa used to be. He's got some kind of fear machine that he can throw people into to supercharge their rings. That doesn't seem to matter once Hal shows up though because I guess he's pure willpower now and takes the whole Sinestro Corps out. It's not great, especially compared to Geoff Johns but it's the best volume Venditti's wrote so far.

Ethan Von Sciver and Rafa Sandoval provide great art. I really like how their colorists treat all the GL constructs. They have this kind of reverse negative look to them.

The new Green lanterns may end up being the more interesting Green Lantern book out there and that's a pretty sad statement for Hal Jordan and team.

Thank you to the author/publisher for accepting my request to read and review this book
This was my first proper insight into the world of the Green Lantern Corps, which maybe meant I wasn't prepared/up to date with the background information but oh well. (Thankfully my boyfriend is a major comic book nerd and has briefed me on most things.)

After the disappearance of the Green Lantern Corps, leaving just Hal Jordan behind, the universe has been taken under Sinestro's Corps. Everyone is convinced they're doing good... But then Sinestro is revived at near-death point and takes over control completely.

Hal is Sinestro's target, but the rest of the Green Lanterns come back and get in his way. With the power harvested from both the Parallax and fear, Sinestro's battle with Hal and the Lanterns is brutal.

I wasn't quite as interested in this one as I was with Batman, even though I love the Green Lanterns. I'm not quite sure why - maybe it's because I'm not as familiar with the previous events as I'd like to be. Either way, I just didn't follow the story all that well.

The ending, however... DC do a great job of leaving you in the dark. Hal?! He can't be dead... right? Cliffhangers!

And as usual, the art is great. Clear colour schemes for the battles of green v. yellow, and tons of action. Not quite as much in terms of character relationships, but some of the characters were so sassy and funny.

I'm only going to give this 3.5 stars though, as it didn't intrigue me quite as much as the Batman Detective Comics.

ARC From Netgalley.
Green Lanterns have really come out of DC Rebirth with a bang! Still in possession of Krona's Gauntlet, Hal, slowly becoming "Will" itself, does the only thing he can to ground his soul to our reality: build himself a new Green Lantern Power Ring. Reciting the oath, he powers up and immediately decides to fight his way towards Warworld.
On Warworld, Sinestro sees that his Corps, under guidance and leadership of Soranik Natu, has established itself as the peacekeeping protectors of the galaxy. (The Green Lantern Corps went missing some time back.) Filling himself with the power of Parallax, Sinestro again takes control of the Corps and enacts a Law that the peace of the galaxy will be held together by the power of Fear, enforced by the Yellow Lanterns. Two problems: Hal Jordan is headed his way AND the Green Lantern Corps have returned to the galaxy.
John Stewart, now leader of the GLC, sends off Guy Gardner to investigate Warworld. He gets captured and is immediately put to torture in the newly designed "Fear Engine", which helps the Yellow Lantern power exceed 100%. Overcoming his imprisonment with sheer willpower and a chant of the Green Lantern Oath, with some help from Soranik, Guy leads rogue Yellows to meet the GLC.
With the depowering of the Fear Engine, Sinestro can not stand before the might of Hal Jordan. Yet with Warworld being empty of all except them both them, Hal makes the decision to end the battle once and for all, by destroying Warworld with them on it, in a blast of pure Will. Are Hal and Sinestro dead?
With the Red Lanterns being part of the pages of Green Lanterns, I hope that we can see the other colored Corps show in the pages of HJ&tGLC. High Recommend!

There's not a heck of a lot going on that's entirely new – one colour of Lantern fighting another – but the grandeur, the scale and the conviction behind the idea this matters all actually make this a worthy Rebirth title, when others just gave us the same old claptrap with no real sense of occasion at all. The drama is strong enough, the artwork not too bad (some of the zappy lines and constructs are a little messy, but that's par for the course), and for once the multiple cliff-hanger endings are actually enjoyable. As is the rest.

The following is a review for Hal Jordan and the Green Lantern Corps: Rebirth (#1-7).

Spoiler level: mild.

I had no idea what Hal Jordan and the Green Lantern Corps were up to. It's been years since I've caught up with the Emerald Crusader. As it turns out, the universe has been without Hal Jordan, as well.

Hal Jordan and the Green Lantern Corps: Rebirth was the perfect way to dive back in to the DC Universe. I was able to check a collection of issues #1 through #7 of this one-shot special. Legendary Lantern artist Ethan Van Sciver delivered something new that felt familiar. Writer Robert Venditti and artist Rafa Sandoval round out the team which easily appeals to longtime fans and allows everyone else to drop right into the Rebirth universe.

This universe, however, isn't great for the GL Corps. They're gone. Sinestro won and now his yellow-clad warriors reign intergalactic carnage. Luckily, Hal is able to forge a new ring and he's looking for some old friends. I couldn't help nodding and smiling while seeing Hal slip on the ring and drop his cosmic catchphrase.

A newly energized Sinestro soon finds out his nemesis is back on the scene and throws his evil Corps at our Green Lantern. The raging, nightmarish, heavyweight goons are wonderfully portrayed on an assortment of alien worlds. Hal is strong, quick with a a quip and equally fast to smash a bad guy, but he's a solo and looking to put the band back together.

Like a breath of fresh air, the last handful of Green Lantern Corps appear in the far reaches of space. Beaten, bloodied, dying. A fraction of what the powerhouse once was, a lone Lantern is sent out for recon. Not everyone is hip to Sinestro's tyranny and Hal seems to be the breath of green energy needed to at least start to bring balance back to the galaxy.

As much as old is new in these pages, this is a different Hal Jordan. Evolving. What a place to be in this Rebirth Universe.

Favorite quote: "How long we gonna sit around with our rungs up our butts, John?"

Favorite panel: Sinestro Corps member 563... half-off.

I have been nothing but impressed with the DC Universe since Rebirth. Ever Volume 1 I have read so far has been an absolute outstanding story. I have read Green Lanterns Vol 1 and I was a little lost about what had exactly happened to Hal Jordan and The missing Corps and this book is exactly what I was needing.

As we leave New 52 Hal Jordan has become a Renegade or Outlaw if you will. Hal is taking all of the Sins of the guardians and the corps from the Guardians trying to wipe out the corps, to the depletion of the pool of the emotional spectrum. Hal decides if corps are to survive these recent events he needs to become the villain the Corps needs him to be. This book opens with us getting to see where Hal is and the beginning of the changes he is under. This is one of the best monologues I have read in awhile. We see the change from Dresden Files Green Lantern to the powerhouse Hal Jordan should be. Goosebumps is all I will say when I read the line "My name is Hal Jordan". Rebirth has been amazing and I love getting back to the way these heroes used to be.

So the Green Lantern Corps has finally found there way to this universe and they need to rebuild. The Corps has been stripped to the bare bones of members and their power levels are not as strong as they need to be. If getting the Corps back up and running wasn't enough of a problem Sinestro is dying and the Yellow Lanterns have become the peace keepers of the Universe. Just as Sinestro is at his lowest he brings the energy being of fear, Parallax into his body to regenerate him and give him power beyond anything he has ever had before. Sinestro having mind bending power, control of Warworld and an army of Yellow Lanterns who gain power from those terrified around them is the absolute worst case scenario for any Lantern.

Am I crazy, or do all Green Lantern stories feel very samey? This feels like more of the usual-- Sinestro's being evil, his corp fights the green lanterns, no real character growth happens. I was pretty bored reading this, actually.
Are there even other Green Lantern villains besides Sinestro and his corp?

I have always been torn about the Green Lanterns; I love that they are space based and are very selfless. But I have to date, never found a story about the Green Lanterns that has gotten me excited for them. Sinestro’s Law was no exception.

Lets start with the art style, I like how even though green and yellow are major colours used (for obvious reasons), they did not dominate the pages. Even when panels were filled with only Green Lanterns, they did not over-saturate the image with green. I do feel like this could have been done wrong very easily and kudos to the artists for managing this very fine balance.

Whilst the art very above average, the storyline is something that should be memorable and exciting. Unfortunately, for me it was neither. I want the Green Lanterns to be my favourite characters / storyline in the DC Comics universe. It has everything that I want in a good book / comic book; space, heros, intergalactic travel to name a few. For me, it should be like Star Wars; an endless fascination that the more I delve into, the more I fall in love with it. This is what I truely want the Green Lanterns to be as what they stand for (for me personally at least) and what they do is something that I want to see more of.

I feel like unless the Green Lantern Corps storyline is perfect, it will never be good enough as I have such high expectations for what could happen. That being said, this storyline was a reasonable one. Hal Jordan returns (I did not realise that he had left, I have not read any of the New 52), only to find that the Sinestro Corps have taken the place for the Green Lantern Corps as the peace keepers and guardians of the known universe.

I feel like if they had decided to focus on one of storyline, instead of trying to juggle between Hal Jordan and the rest of the Green Lanterns Corps, that whilst taking away from the overall understanding of what was happening, bringing a more cohesive and understandable plot that personally I found hard to keep track of.

A good story to show you that you can overcome fear, only if you have the will.

For those who are keeping track, this is the rebirthed Hal Jordan Green Lantern, not the tag team wannabes who are showing up in the JLA Rebirth. After recapping Hal’s history, Hal tells us he’s changing, losing control of his powers thanks to the Gauntlet he stole, and doesn’t know where the other Green Lanterns or the Guardians have gone. He fears disappearing into the colorful Emotional Spectrum forever. Sucks to be Hal.

But no fear, soon enough Hal is back protecting the universe from Sinestro, who begins the volume as a generic evil older dude from a Spaghetti Western, where in the past he looked kinda like William Powell from the old Thin Man movies, except with a Snidely Whiplash mustache and a nasty sunburn. But oops, soon enough the old Sinestro is back, for reasons that can only be described as convoluted.

Sinestro is an authoritarian who wants to achieve order by fear, which means he’s probably admired by a lot of people who live in red states and apparently has a good chance of being elected president. He sends his corps members out into the universe after inspiring them to be really scary. All that fear powers the Fear Engine, which in turn powers the Sinestro Corps. Sinestro, like all authoritarians, pretends to be doing the universe a favor by keeping order, although keeping order means obeying Sinestro. Yes, indeed, this title is metaphorically relevant to contemporary American politics.

Fortunately, the Green Lantern Corps, or what’s left of it, finds its way back to … whatever universe this is. Unfortunately, there are a whole lot ring slingers wearing yellow rather than green, and not all the green ones have all their body parts (I’m not sayin’ which parts are missing).

Among the surviving Lanterns are Guy Gardner (of course) and John Stewart (of course). I’ve never been a Guy Gardner fan before, but in this issue I truly admire his ability to crush a beer can against his forehead.

And then we’ve got Sinestro’s daughter. Is she good or is she bad? Well, she’s a woman, she can’t make up her mind.

And then we’ve got Hal’s altered state. Lanterns are always changing -- that whole emotional spectrum, you never know what color you’ll be from one day to the next -- but Hal seems to be becoming his ring, or his ring is becoming Hal.

But anyway, Hal’s back, the Green Lantern Corps (or some of it) is back, and all is right with the DC universe again. The story is pretty good and like most of the Rebirth stuff I’ve read, the writers are getting back to basics and ignoring the silliness that kept DC in the grip of madness in recent years. The writers develop some good themes, they toss in some cool space battles, and they develop iconic characters in recognizable ways.

Hal J and the GLC is further evidence that, having lost its way for so long, DC is finally getting its groove back. This volume is a nice transition from the old to the new. It's a little lumpy at first because it has to deal with the old, but once it focuses on the new, it's good stuff.

The Green Lantern Corps have disappeared somewhere, Oa has been blowed up and the Sinestro Corps rule the universe – prepare to lose IQ points, it’s Hal Jordan and the Green Lantern Corps!

Robert Venditti used to be a great writer – really. I highly recommend the first four volumes of his XO Manowar series for Valiant which is a damn sight better than any of his Green Lantern run for DC. But since he took over from Geoff Johns, Green Lantern has never even been mediocre, let alone good! I thought maybe with Rebirth it’d somehow be an improvement but it’s actually just as bad as his New 52 run.

I gave up on his pre-Rebirth Green Lantern after a couple books so I don’t know what happened to the GLC or why Oa is “gone” (for now), etc. You’d think with a title like “Rebirth”, DC would try to make each title accessible to new readers, but nope! The line instead seems to basically be The New 52: Part 2 and, more often than not, if you haven’t been reading the previous books, you’re gonna be lost with these Rebirth Volume 1s.

The piss-awful “story” is a crap Star Wars knockoff with Sinestro as the Emperor in his Death Star (called “Warworld” here) ruling the universe, with the underdog Green Lantern Corps as the Rebel Alliance and Hal Jordan as Luke Skywalker. There’s also an element of Game of Thrones with Sinestro having his own Melisandre in the form of Lyssa, whose purpose is… sex object?

It’s the same old recycled garbage readers have seen before: one-dimensionally “good” Green Lanterns vs tediously and cartoonishly “evil” Yellow Lanterns, culminating in blandly heroic Hal v blandly villainous Sinestro for the bazillionth time. The book is page after page of green and yellow morons slinging light at each other – I don’t know who would find this compelling. These are comics for idiots! The subtitle should be, “Let’s Get Stupid!”.

Hal Jordan and the Green Lantern Corps is unimaginative, boring and the farthest thing from a must-read – another Rebirth (s)hit!