I feel weird about this book because I like so many aspects of it and yet page by page I just found myself a bit too bored. Jo feels more human than any lantern before her, with flaws and all, and her growth over the course of this story was a joy to see every time I read this. She is the only one in this alien city who can naturally feel emotions, leading to a ton of insight into who she is and how she handles her problems. 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. Far Sector seems to neatly wrap up Jo's story on the City Enduring, but I'd follow her on another adventure.

I also tend to feel, as a very fast reader and a latecomer to comics, that my brain is just not set up to process the kind of visual storytelling that takes place in comics like this, with explosion-heavy double-page spreads that encompass big blocks of time, and succinct pithy dialogue and narration which requires so much mental gap-filling in between panels and off the page. For the past six months, newly chosen Green Lantern Sojourner "Jo" Mullein has been protecting the City Enduring, a massive metropolis of 20 billion people. One thing I liked is that Jo brings the reader up to speed on the first page in every issue, which would have been a big help in the monthlies. It’s a very long buildup, leisurely even, with me wondering even past halfway point when exactly the plot was supposed to arrive while figuring out why I’m supposed to care.The last issue of this is also beyond stunning and probably the best-looking issue of the man’s entire career. Jo storms out of the Council meeting, accusing the Council of not taking responsibility and for not letting her do her job.

Far Sector is a miniseries in the DC Comics Green Lantern franchise, published from 2019 to 2021 by DC's imprint DC's Young Animal. When interrogated, the suspects reveal that they had little knowledge of the details behind their job. I did not know this was a Green Lantern story, and I know nothing about the Green Lantern comics, but I did not need to. There is the matter of her unusual Green Lantern ring, which is (perhaps pointedly) never completely addressed.Similarly, much of character development happens in masterfully rendered facial expressions, or in times of leisure where Jo lets down her hair and wears sweats or a summer dress. The perfect character for this story, and the flashbacks to her life pre-Green Lantern only add to the intrigue. As with any superhero tale, good prevailing over evil after a few feints and shoot-'em-ups is table stakes, so nothing feels particularly fraught, and it's not really that satisfying when everything falls into place at the end.

Jamal Campbell's illustrations are luridly gorgeous, Jo is a fantastic character, NK Jemisin's world-building is vast and awe-inspiring, and her subversion and modernizing of stale, monolithic, and heteronormative superhero tropes is a progressive thrill. SO yeah do read it especially for the art omg its so beautiful like Jamal does gods work here, he makes each page and even the cover look like a million bucks. It's a hefty pile on this story's plate, but I think Jemisin does a pretty good job of fulfilling most of her promises while also making a satisfying intro to a new world and character. We are on a far planet with three alien races that long ago destroyed each other’s world because of uncontrolled emotions.Far Sector" is her take on the Green Lantern character, and it's set on a faraway city/planet populated by three distinct alien races who have managed a long-standing peace after carefully writing the emotions right out of their DNA.

But we are given the barest of information of her life in Brooklyn on Earth in the tiniest and sparsest of flashbacks, as we are dropped with her into a planetary-sized city in the farthest reaches of space. She gas been both a soldier are a police officer, though neither one of those roles ended well for her. Un mystery, praticamente, in cui un investigatore, che arriva da fuori e del tutto estraneo perfino al modo di pensare delle razze aliene, deve vedersela con le consuete storie di potere, corruzione e ribellione. Into all this comes Sojourner "Jo" Mullein, the newest human Green Lantern, powered by a slightly different ring and a slightly different sort of willpower. Jemisin and Jamal Campbell team up for what very well was the single best Big 2 comic to come out of 2021, as they introduce us to Sojourner “Jo” Mullein, a rookie lantern who is assigned a weird case in the City Enduring: Investigate the first murder case this planet has had in 500 years, with only a mere twenty billion suspects to choose from as the culprit.

K. Jemisin takes the opportunity of working with the DC Universe's police force to have a discussion about police, power and marginalized communities and very successfully in my opinion.