Far Sector

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She has been both a soldier and a police officer, though neither one of those roles ended well for her. This one is a slow burn as Jo navigates the political potholes of The City Enduring as she finds that sometimes a murder isn't just a murder and threatens to pull on the strand that holds the society of The City Enduring together.

The three species initially lived on two separate planets until the Burnover, when they destroyed their homeworlds during a war sparked by the Cloud Kratocracy (an empire of powerful alien conquerors that the three species drove to extinction). 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.

Jo realizes that Switchoff users are being used as a black market commodity since they become emotional enough to produce creative content. I can't really fault Jemisin or Jamal Campbell in this case - it's extremely hard to tell a story with emotionless characters. I especially loved the care given to the texture of Jo's hair and that she had more than just 1 hairstyle in the entire book. 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. My track record with Jemisin was very mixed so far, therefore it took me a while to actually read this.

The last time I was that excited by an outside entering comics was back when Ta-Nehisi Coates took over Black Panther. This is written by a novelist who is taking full advantage of the Young Animal imprint to do her own thing with the GL mythos, and doing so while also building up her own new lantern to lead her story forward. 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.

The protest consists of Switchoff users, who want the Exploit abolished, and counter-protestors who want Switchoff banned and the Emotion Exploit to be kept active. I'll be honest, I picked up Far Sector because of Jamal Campbell's artwork more than anything else, but the story is equally as impressive so it was a win-win overall.

His layouts are clean and easy to follow, and I really think someone should put this dude on an ongoing book suited to his strengths already. First, one of the things that I really liked about this is that Sojourner "Jo" Mullein makes a great addition to the Green Lantern Corps. It’s like there was supposed to be some McGuffin controlled by the government, and why not emotions, I guess?

The perfect character for this story, and the flashbacks to her life pre-Green Lantern only add to the intrigue. A newly minted Green Lantern with an unusual ring has to solve a murder on a planet hosting various alien races.I liked the divergence from typical panel structure and some of the bombastic colours in the final chapters are truly beautiful comic pages. She has a unique Green Lantern ring that slowly recharges constantly instead of getting an instant power-up from a lantern. As always, Jemisin’s worldbuilding is top-notch, her dialogue is refreshing, and her lead character is dynamic. They believe that the keh-Topli suspect, Meile Thorn, was under the influence of Switchoff, a drug that nullifies the Emotion Exploit. Stevn of the Glacier: A Nah education drone administrator who becomes the first murder victim of the City Enduring in 500 years.