N.K. Jemisin has been on my TBR for years, and I'll admit that I'm surprised that a Green Lantern comic book of all things has been my first entry into her backlist -- and yet, I think this was a great entry into her books. I read this book for my science fiction lit class this semester, which has been a lot of fun. It's a thought-provoking yet entertaining story (its medium as a comic book helps out with that, of course).

There's a lot of great character work, especially in how various characters intersect with their larger culture -- the interplay between the social and the personal is full of nuance, making the characters realistically relatable, yet also vibrantly surprising in delightful ways. In this way, her worldbuilding bleeds over into character work quite profusely, which is a narrative strategy that I just always enjoy.

I also simply love the ideas at play within the narrative -- its questions of social justice, emotion vs. rationality, and choice/empowerment are ones I love to read about.

I do feel like things escalated quite rapidly near the end of the comic book -- a few more pages to explain and escalate, then resolve, things would have done the book good, in my opinion. Beyond the rushed ending, the rest of the plot felt well paced across all issues, so this is more of a small quibble than anything.