Far Sector

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The Trilogy Council consists of one member of each species; they are elected by their respective species, their position is lifelong, and their power is unrestricted. Far Sector took me a LONG time to read, not because it's bad, it's just pretty heavy and I wanted to take in this gorgeous art. It’s the resonance with the actual world, the actual feelings, the issues that can and do happen — but shown through the prism of different setting, different perception, frequently inverting perspectives and giving new sharp unexpected angles to old issues.

Marth explains that his ancestor was the one who imposed the Exploit, and while it served its purpose in the past, he wants to end it without disrupting the status quo so much that fortunes and power are disrupted.

She has a background that we actually learn about, her character design is unique, she's compassionate and competent and unafraid to stand up to authority even when she is the lone outsider on a planet of 3 alien races. I don't know why I'm even surprised given how incredible Jemisin is at everything she does, but Far Sector blew me away. An other-planet mirror of racial violence and injustice on earth (particularly in the US), told with a veil thinner than paper and a hand heavier than Mjölnir. She explores her ideas in a creative way and I do love the Green Lantern mythos, but the narrative feels like it’s shoehorned into a very loose interpretation of GL and is more complicated than strictly necessary.

The city has just had its first murder (but not its last) in 500 years and it's up to our rookie Green Lantern to sleuth out what happened. Canhaz then tells her that the Feelsnet is used for the exchange of illegal or scarce content, particularly memes made by residents of the City. Her short fiction has been published in a number of magazines and podcast markets, and has been nominated for the Hugo and Nebula awards. They rebuilt on a space station, and have been peacefully existing for five hundred years under an unchanging ruling council; but when Lantern Sojourner Mullein arrives, tensions under the surface are rising to a boiling point.And if you’re already a Lantern fan, you’ll enjoy this new addition to the universe and you’ll be excited to see how they integrate Jo Mullein into the larger DC Universe, if and when they do so!

But yet I had no issue taking long breaks between the issues with no strong desire to pick it back up once I put it down. This leads Jo to remember her life on Earth where she joined the army and then the police force in an attempt to make the world a fairer place. A week later, the Council formally apologies for their deadly use of force and sets a date for a referendum on the Exploit. I was also dazzled by the trio of races Jemisin dreamed up -- carnivorous plant-people, "optionally corporeal" indentured AP, aerial predatory primates -- and each one's world, buildings, food, and attire. Even if you’re new to reading the world of Green Lantern, this is still a great read, especially for sci-fi/fantasy fans,.During their meeting, Marth makes multiple romantic gestures and reveals that he and Council members in the past have taken Switchoff. She also proves to be wholly ineffective as the initial murderer is caught without her involvement and the City seems to have police stations and interrogation rooms so it’s hard to believe they’ve never had a murder in centuries (unless those interrogation rooms were used for people with parking tickets? Every issue/chapter starts with an A4 cover, and every second issue/chapter with a summary hit Jo breaking the 4th wall. Jemisin nearly seemlessly transitions to comic book writing - there are no walls of text as we saw with Ta-Nehisi Coates' first stab at Black Panther. But what can one Green Lantern do on a world without emotion where politics are a bubbling cauldron?