Review of
Guy Gardner: Collateral Damage 2 of 2,
comic written by Howard Chaykin
Five out of five stars
Guy Gardner is
a superhero, one of the galactic police known as the Green Lanterns. Commissioned
by the blue-skinned and immortal Guardians, the Green Lanterns are given powers
that are to be used for good works and not for personal gain or vendettas.
While Guy
Gardner is a Green Lantern, he is a player that always stretches the boundaries
of acceptable behavior for a Green Lantern. The Guardians are often on the edge
of stripping him of his powers, for he is rude, crude, emotionally nude, obnoxious
and not very good at following orders.
In this story,
there is a war to the death of the species between two space traveling species.
Neither one will give any ground to the other, death of the other is really
their only goal in life. Despite his orders, Gardner intervenes in the war. He
has a Green Lantern sidekick that is shaped much like a dog and Gardner often
treats him disparagingly. Yet, in the end, the war has been ended and there is
a little more peace in the universe.
I have found the
Guy Gardner Green Lantern character to be an acquired taste. The first comic
that I read where he was featured turned me off. He is so unlike the Hal Jordan
Green Lantern that I was familiar with that I did not read any other adventure of
Gardner for some time. However, over time I have grown to enjoy his escapades,
for he is so emotionally human. That characteristic makes the stories much more
unpredictable.
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