This is an entirely new take on the Green Lantern, following a bisexual Black woman from Brooklyn who has become a Lantern and is sent to a futuristic society without emotion where the first murder in hundreds of years has taken place. If Gerard Way’s Young Animal imprint is going to churn out stuff like this, sign me up for that Black Parade, please. I can't really fault Jemisin or Jamal Campbell in this case - it's extremely hard to tell a story with emotionless characters.

I don't normally like a lot of computer coloring and effects but Jamal Campbell's art really makes the story come together. She reveals that she organized the protest, believing her husband wouldn't have died if the keh-Topli who ate him had the opportunity to learn to regulate her emotions so Meile could have learned to control her desire safely. To some degree, this book might even be disappointing to true Green Lantern fans because there's just not a lot of Green Lantern stuff here.

The Green Lantern ends up following several clues given to her by locals to this world trying to direct her investigation and findings to a specific conclusion for political reasons. But my attempts at tracking the characters' emotional states pulled me out of the story a few too many times. The thing that binds it all together is the dogged determination of Jo Mullein, a Brooklyn girl out of her depth and the only good cop on an emotionless world. I knew she could weave a good yarn, but a graphic novel is quite different, and novelists don’t always switch easily. Her presence acts as a catalyst for change in a place that has just had its first murder in hundreds of years .

One that, with the gorgeous artwork of Jamal Campbell, creates a beautiful, terrifying, confounding, eye and brain popping world. The parallels to the “real” world are not just there, they are blindingly obvious and heavily explained, with the overall impression of preaching to the choir.Though Jo is new to the GL role she knows how hard life can be and is no stranger to the role of protector. It also feels wholly unique and original, even though it’s about something I’m very familiar with in the Green Lantern Corps. And, like Dennis O’Neal did in the 70’s, Jemisin sets up Green Lantern as a literal Social Justice Warrior, as Jo investigates a series of rare murders on a planet that has outlawed emotions and uncovers political corruption and persecution. While I was a bit wary of her being a soldier and a cop, I think Jemisin intended that to be the reason she was so determined not to let the City Enduring make the same mistakes over overpoliced society. Although it limited their ability to create entertainment, the Exploit prevented them from making rash and destructive decisions.

Jo storms out of the Council meeting, accusing the Council of not taking responsibility and for not letting her do her job.The populous of the world consumes art and humor from other worlds such as Earth “to feel” something. 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. Upon entering Meile’s jail cell, Jo discovers that Meile has just been killed, and the Nah perpetrator flees the cell.