Cover
Artist Jim Starlin does a decent job with each characters’ respective proportions. However, Hal Jordan/Green Lantern is in a pose that suggests he should either be dead or physically disabled. Starlin also overdoes the overall size of Dr. Polaris. This oversizing, and Starlin drawing so many elements on the cover causes problems for letterer Todd Klein’s work. In other words the cover is a mess. On the plus side, colorist Anthony Tollin provides an attention-grabbing color palette.
Main Story
Writer Marv Wolfman provides a mostly high quality script. The conversations and arguments feel mostly natural. Unfortunately some of the thoughts are unrealistic. This is not helped by certain poses artist Joe Staton uses that are utterly unbelievable for a human to survive. Thus, despite both Wolfman and Staton creating some high quality material together they also fail at least a few times. Fortunately, Anthony Tollin and letterer Ben Oda provide strictly high quality work with their respective talents. Tollin especially does a great job making the visuals Staton creates feel more real via a brilliant selection of hues.
Back-up Story
Despite some expert work when it comes to placing text by letterer Shelly Lefereman one can still tell writer Laurie S. Sutton overwrote the script. Yes, what is on the page is still smartly written, but the amount will turn a lot of people off. Due to the amount of text each panel of this eight page back-up story does not really rely on the art of artists Rodin Rodriguez and Tex Blaisdell. Yet, one can still see their attempts to tell the same story with the visuals, and how the realistic the characters look. Though part of the realism comes from the hues colorist Jerry Serpe uses.
Barely recommended.
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