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This TPB was intense. It’s basically what the title says. The Guardians have made a Third Army (I think that the Manhunters were the Guardians’ first army, the Lanterns the second, so, this makes sense). I thought that they were spooky, spooky creatures. I mean, in the first part of the TPB they were just drawn with so much in their eyes, and then the rest of them was just... all the same. I think that’s why I thought it was more intense than even the Court of Owls storyline, because, maybe in our lives we can’t have our hearts ripped out and our brain ripped out and our souls taken from us and become the Big Blue headed guys slaves, but, what happened to all these beings in these issues could easily happen with traumatic brain injury, or a disease that takes speech, and movement and leaves you with only your brain in a husk of a body. The thought, even as I’m writing this still disturbs me.

So, one reason that I liked this collection was the subject matter, but I’m also a fan of the Green Lantern Corps for the most part. I think that the different color rings can be used interestingly, or really badly. I think in the New 52 reboot, so far they’re being used really, really well. I never really loved Kyle like I did Hal or John Stewart (my favorite), but by putting him with the characters he got to be ‘taught’ by, he’s slowly becoming a more interesting character to me now.

John also got a kinda of a cool storyline. Hey, I like Mogo as much as the next person, so, go Mogo! Hal was sorta not there for most of this book, which was a bit of a bummer, but, I liked where they left he and Sinestro, those will be some interesting issues in the next TPB for sure.

And, then, there’s Guy. Guy, Guy, Guy. I think that the first time that I was introduced to Guy as a Green Lantern was in the Death of Superman universe spanning story. I couldn’t stand him (in retrospect, some of the bitterness with how that story was done overall may have bled into what I thought of Guy). I think that I might, just might be warming up to his character, just a teeny, teeny, teeny little bit. Maybe it was the fact that this was the first time I’d read about his family, or perhaps how the writer wrote him when he didn’t have his ring, or maybe he’s just like a fungus and he’s growing on me.

All in all a great collection of all the vastly different storylines that somehow tied into the Third Army storyline. Now, to catch up on the Individual Titles TPB volumes too.

I got this advanced galley through Netgalley on behalf of DC Entertainment. ( )