Green Lantern Vol. 2: Horatius TPB review by Raphael Borg

Green Lantern: Horatius is a weird continuation and closure to Geoff Thorne’s brief run on the title. It’s not bad, by any stretch of the imagination. It certainly took a different direction than I originally thought it would, having had a rather derivative start. The artwork, largely by Tom Raney and Marco Santucci, provides a dynamic spin to a narrative that has been, in my opinion, rather more bloated than it needs to; it is one of the rare occasions in which, I find, would benefit being divided in separate titles to converge at a climax – as Green Lantern series usually do – simply due to the sheer weight and complicated narrative dump it goes on for a substantial amount of it. I am sure, for one, that I may have missed some details of it. It’s not bad, but it warranted some breathing room for each portion to bear its own weight. I am especially fond of the annual devoted to Jessica Cruz and her foray into the lantern of fear, Sinestro’s, fold, who has some brilliant moments here; while I do hold a bias being so enthralled (…hah) by the villain, there is something poetic in the agoraphobic Cruz becoming his protege.