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Guy Gardner - Collateral Damage
On the fringes of the Rann-Thanagar War, G'Nort of the Green Lantern Corps must find an arbiter to broker a peace deal! What neutral part does he find? None other than Guy Gardner! Wait...Guy? Peace? Neutral?
- GenresComicsGraphic Novels
96 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 2007
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Howard Chaykin
1,085 books105 followersHoward Victor Chaykin is an American comic book artist and writer.
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Displaying 1 - 6 of 6 reviews
May 14, 2015
I love Guy but this two part graphic novel is decent at best. Guy Gardner walks in, acts like an ahole and then beats a few people up. Then he makes more male chauvinistic comments, rinse and repeat. Sadly, I finished both parts in less than half an hour.
August 4, 2014
I love the green lantern corps ,but Guy Gardner is messed up !When Hal Jordan became a green lantern ,Guy was the better choice ?Maybe in Willpower ,but his "macho" attitude (more like big perv)gets on my nerve. I didn't even finish this.
In Guy's defense :look him up later on in the comics or in his great role in the reconstruction of the corps in "Green Lantern Corps :Recharge".
In Guy's defense :look him up later on in the comics or in his great role in the reconstruction of the corps in "Green Lantern Corps :Recharge".
February 25, 2023
I'm of an age where the name Howard Chaykin on a cover has always made me cringe. I have no reverence for his ability to draw fishnet stockings, or his clunky macho dialogue.
He is the perfect bad writer for Guy Gardner, and I had hope in the first few pages, where he acknowledges how awful Gardner is, that he would pour all of his misogyny into Guy, and have the rest of the characters in the book balance him out. Alas, this is the same Chaykin from Black Kiss and The Divided States of Hysteria, there is no premise he can't hack into pieces by making every character a volatile piece of shit.
Write what you know, I guess.
This is a terrible book. There is no reason to waste your time on it for any reason. It is an adequate setup for Dave Gibbons's run on Green Lantern Corps, Volume 1: To Be a Lantern, which I had hoped would be the worst of the books I had to read during the buildup to Blackest Night, but this book is awful enough to put Gibbons's run in perspective as not truly awful, just terrible.
He is the perfect bad writer for Guy Gardner, and I had hope in the first few pages, where he acknowledges how awful Gardner is, that he would pour all of his misogyny into Guy, and have the rest of the characters in the book balance him out. Alas, this is the same Chaykin from Black Kiss and The Divided States of Hysteria, there is no premise he can't hack into pieces by making every character a volatile piece of shit.
Write what you know, I guess.
This is a terrible book. There is no reason to waste your time on it for any reason. It is an adequate setup for Dave Gibbons's run on Green Lantern Corps, Volume 1: To Be a Lantern, which I had hoped would be the worst of the books I had to read during the buildup to Blackest Night, but this book is awful enough to put Gibbons's run in perspective as not truly awful, just terrible.
October 24, 2021
This reaches 3 stars just by virtue of having Howard Chaykin art, which I always enjoy, and great Chaykin covers. He draws a great Guy too, making the best GL uniform out there look even better. That aside, though, this is pretty average. The story is very weak, a tiny contribution to the Rann-Thanagar War event, which is mainly an excuse for Chaykin to have Guy riff, and show us just what a male chauvinist pig he is. Typical Chaykin male character basically.
It’s readable, but it’s also very forgettable.
It’s readable, but it’s also very forgettable.
December 6, 2018
La mayor basura que me he echado en cara en toda mi vida. La historia es una basura, el dibujo parece hecho por un señor hasta arriba de speed (lo cual es raro en Chaykin, quien tiene un dibujo bastante bello) y, en general, no me pareció que le aportara nada nuevo o interesante a un personaje bastante definido como lo es Guy Gardner. Evítenlo a toda costa.
April 16, 2019
Unimpressive art and uninspired writing. Gardner here reads like a scumbag, not a rebellious hero.
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