Ion # 7 Review
This Review Was Submitted by Knightwingbk:
Writer: Ron Marz
Artists: Greg Tocchini & Jay Leisten
The beginning of the second arc in the ION mini, Kyle Rayner goes home and visits his old buddy Radu. If you don't know who Radu is, go back and read Ron Marz's Green Lantern issues. Radu owns a coffee shop below the apartment building he runs. Kyle used to live there when he was dating Donna Troy and Jade as well. Kyle tells Radu all that has happened to him in since he left Earth. Kyle is visited by a Monitor, who has cornrows, and the Monitor basically says he liked Kyle's old Green Lantern costume better than the Ion one and disappears. It’s a lot of talking heads and emotions, but it is a good comic.
Greg Tocchini does his usual job of strange penciling here. I think he is stronger at action scenes than talking head scenes, because in some panels of this book, you can see where his art is starting to fall apart, until the story picks up and from there he blows it away. All in all, this issue is setting up the next 5 issues of Kyle's story, but isn't an essential issue in the story. B-
