Far Sector

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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. I read this twice before we met to talk about it in book club, largely because it took me so much of the book to really understand what was going on, so I thought rereading it with full knowledge of the plot would help me fill in the logic. Unsure of how to deal with it, the City Enduring’s Council reaches out to the Guardians who dispatch a Green Lantern to the furthest of their sectors to investigate. Some may know Jo from Future State Justice League and this book is why many, including myself, were hoping that lineup might stick for a little.

Due to the remote nature of this assignment, Jo doesn't have access to backup and her power ring has a limited power supply, which forces her to use her head rather than punch through every problem. She previously won the Locus Award for her first novel, The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms, and her short fiction and novels have been nominated multiple times for Hugo, World Fantasy, and Nebula awards, and shortlisted for the Crawford and the James Tiptree, Jr. Green Lantern Jo Mullein is patrolling a far distant world composed of three violent species (one of which is an AI). 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. The ring Jo was given is powered by the willpower required to live with fear - as in the kind of willpower that leads people living with oppression to continue striving for goals that seem impossible to reach.

A week later, the Council formally apologies for their deadly use of force and sets a date for a referendum on the Exploit. And then once things start happening, it all happens full speed and intensely, dumping a lot of information and plot points all at once in one huge lump that gets a bit messy. A newly minted Green Lantern with an unusual ring has to solve a murder on a planet hosting various alien races.

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. Jemisin crafts a gripping story that shows us the origin of her new hero throughout, and how she handles her first real case as a hero.

One that, with the gorgeous artwork of Jamal Campbell, creates a beautiful, terrifying, confounding, eye and brain popping world. 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. She has a unique Green Lantern ring that slowly recharges constantly instead of getting an instant power-up from a lantern. My track record with Jemisin was very mixed so far, therefore it took me a while to actually read this. Minec of the Sea, by the Streaking Ice, Until the Sun Falls: Marth’s younger and more vicious sister.

Campbell’s illustrations of the city are extraordinary, and I often had to dig up two reading glasses (yeah, I am getting old) just to investigate each tiny picture in detail. It has enough to make this a black label book, but as they are not overused, the speech seems more natural and authentic. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. Far Sector is one of the best and most thought-provoking graphic novels you can find on a shelf these days.The servers come back online allowing voting to be completed; the referendum passes with a clear majority in favor of ending the Exploit, and the Council honors the result. 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.

I couldn't really get over that disconnect between what the images were showing and what the text was telling me. K. Jemisin's name slapped across the front of it and I wasn't sure if the character was meant to live on in the DC Universe proper or was only to live in the pages of this collection. Marth reveals that he used the money he made from selling Switchoff to hire the remainders of the Cloud Kratocracy as a contingency plan since he suspected Glory to be planning something.With Jo saying something like “this is exactly like earth” several times each issue, the metaphor becomes less and less meaningful to the point that it might as well have taken place on earth in the first place. 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. When someone is murdered on a planet that hasn't seen in a murder in hundreds of years, Green Lantern Jo Mullein is on the case. Murders can be committed for consolidating power, for profit, and in the case of psychopaths, for no reason at all, so it seems to be a bit unbelievable that merely turning off emotions would eliminate murder. I was nervous since I do not read many graphic works and I was worried that I wouldn't get the worldbuilding and voice that I love from Jemisin.