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.

I love all of the rebirth books. It gives me a great starting point to get to know characters all within one canon world/universe.

Hal's Been Missing

Hal Jordan is many things: cocky, arrogant, and full of himself. He was once the leader of the Green Lantern Corps, and now he is in exile. His exile is challenging him, and he feels at risk of losing himself.

Hal Jordan & the Green Lantern CorpsHal took Krona's prototype gauntlet. Everyone is gone. If that isn't enough, consider the fact that Hal is actually a construct, and he is using a Green Gauntlet. Hal comes to realize that, he himself if a construct. Or at least, in part, he is. HE comes to realize that he is not a typical Lantern, and as such, he decides to push the envelope again. Hal is going to forge his own Green Lantern ring - a power believed to belong solely to the Guardians. Several prominent members of various Lantern corps feel a tremble within the emotional spectrum.

"There's one rull I'll never break though: you wear the ring, you say the oath." - Hal Jordan

Order Through Fear

On the other side of the universe, Sinestro and his Sinestro Corps have set themselves up in place of the Green Lantern Corps, ruling the universe with fear. Sinestro is seen as a great leader, while his daughter Soranik and his lieutenant Lyssa take turns running the daily operations. While Hal was figuring a way to resurface with his Green Lantern persona and investigate the disappearance of his friends and teammates, Sinestro had his own plans.

At the core of Warworld, the homeplanet of the Sinestro Corps, lives Parallax. The giant emotional entity that breathes life into the Sinestro Corps power. Sinestro has grown old, become frail. Sinestro seeks to embody Parallax again, to not only regain his former strength, but to drive fear into the lives across the universe.

Hal has forged his ring and decided to go hunting. He found a planet with a known smuggler's den. Seeking out the colorful denizens of this society, he is looking for information. Just as various Lanterns felt when Hal forged his ring, Hal felt a strange surge of fear when Sinestro took on Parallax again.

Sinestro stands before his Corps, and announces his rejuvination using the power of Parallax itself, and to go out into the universe, enforcing order through fear.

Out On The Edge

On the outer edges of the cosmos, a great green flash appears, and numerous Green Lanterns emerge. We aren't given details as to where they have been. All we know is that many have fallen in their struggle to return. Familiar faces such as Kilowog, John Stewart and Guy Gardner survive, thankfully. Gardner goes out as a scout in the black space, to learn the specifics of where they are and what sort of situation they find themselves.

Sinestro catches wind that his pupil, Hal Jordan, once touted as the greatest Green Lantern still lives. This enrages Sinestro, ordering his men to fall back, and not to engage Jordan. Like so many plans before it, this did not turn out the way they had planned.

From here, the book takes plenty of twists and turns, including the Green Lanterns fighting incredible odds. Though no battle between these two corps will end easily.

What A Blast
Hal forging a ring. The Lanterns return. Guy faces incredible strife. How could this not make for a good story. Not to mention getting the chance to see another showdown between two of the Green Lantern greats: Sinestro and his once pupil, Hal Jordan! Any chance we the reader can pick up a #1 issue and get in on the story, is a wonderful thing. I loved sitting down and reading through the trials of the Green Lanterns. Personally, I can't wait to see where Hal leads his Lanterns next.

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.

It is adventurous and it gets you wanting for more. Still, I felt there was something amiss. I don’t know why though, but I will absolutely be reading how the story goes.
The drawing is great and I want to know where the writer is heading.

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!

I wanted to like this more than I actually did, but it was just okay, to me. The art was good, and the issues done by Ethan Van Sciver were phenomenal. The story arc just felt sort of generic to me. Nothing we really haven't read before in a green lantern book, but not a bad book, and not a great book. It falls into that okay, solid area.

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.

Wow. There’s a LOT going on here. The Green Lantern Corp has disappeared, Hal Jordan has some sort of proto-ring, and Sinestro and the Yellow Lanterns are running the universe. And that’s just the big picture.
And that’s the problem.  This book has so many characters, and so much going on, that it really feels overstuffed.
And for a Rebirth book, that is supposed to be attractive to new or lapsed readers, this is a huge problem.  Because I felt like I had no idea what the hell was going on. Of the various Rebirth books that I’ve read to date, this one felt like there was the strongest need to know deep continuity.
And yet somehow as it built towards Hal Jordan vs Sinestro, I felt like it was tired and in need of some fresh ideas.
The art was once again subpar. It’s a shame that on a book with such a cosmic scope they can’t put on some artists who can really bring the wonder.
I would say that this one is for serious GL fans only.

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.