For a comic with a slightly different preceding volume, Jeremy Adams' Green Lantern Vol. 2: Love and War is pretty excellent, perhaps — dare I say it — the Hal Jordan series we’ve been waiting for a while now. Nor would it be particularly difficult to look at Love and War and think, “This is what Adams meant in Green Lantern Vol. 1: Back in Action,” whether that quite holds up to scrutiny or not. Most impressive is Adams making short work of a Green Lantern mystery that stalwarts including Geoff Johns and Robert Venditti approached but never quite cracked.

There’s plenty good work done with other members of the Green Lantern Corps, too, making me all the more eager for Adams' Corps spin-off series to come.