So, the story here is a blend of murder-investigation-that-goes-all-the-way-to-the-top, sci-fi world building, coming of. Jemisin is a Brooklyn author who won the Hugo Award for Best Novel for The Fifth Season, which was also a New York Times Notable Book of 2015. I can't really fault Jemisin or Jamal Campbell in this case - it's extremely hard to tell a story with emotionless characters. Syzn meets Jo in the CEPD headquarters, asking Jo to plead “temporary emotional insanity” as an explanation for her actions, and tells her that dealing with the Switchoff facilities is too complicated to take care of before tomorrow’s Exploit referendum. It has enough to make this a black label book, but as they are not overused the speech seems more natural and authentic.

They rebuilt on a space station, and have been peacefully existing for five hundred years under an unchanging ruling council; but when Lantern Sojourner Mullein arrives, tensions under the surface are rising to a boiling point. It’s like there was supposed to be some McGuffin controlled by the government, and why not emotions, I guess?

I also tend to feel, as a very fast reader and a latecomer to comics, that my brain is just not set up to process the kind of visual storytelling that takes place in comics like this, with explosion-heavy double-page spreads that encompass big blocks of time, and succinct pithy dialogue and narration which requires so much mental gap-filling in between panels and off the page. I liked the funny little recaps at the start of chapters that paid homage to iconic sci-fi movies and shows like The Matrix, Star Trek, and Aliens.

Stevn of the Glacier: A Nah education drone administrator who becomes the first murder victim of the City Enduring in 500 years. Now the writing and world building were great (of course) but the plotline didn't really do it for me.Maybe it’s the fact that prior to this book I had no idea about the concept of Green Lanterns (and still really don’t know much except for that they are space cops with superpowered rings). 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. Jo meets with An again, who knows that the Council will likely ignore the demands of the people but the protestors will fight for change anyway. 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. But it turns out that is not true later we find out the Green Lantern is a fully trained Earth NYC Police Officer and Military Combat veteran.

When it’s not just generic energy blasts or shields, it’s all stuff that already exists: larger hands, capes, glasses, hats, sticks, wings, ninja stars, chairs, even the mech suit Ridley wore in Aliens! The majority of Far Sector is extremely engaging though, not least because of Campbell's (inter)stellar art. Jamal Campbell delivers colorful and vibrant sci-fi scenery that's cool but also quite dense and overstuffed with details in places.Jemisin, the acclaimed, award-winning author of The Broken Earth and Inheritance science fiction trilogies, makes her comic book debut with bestselling Naomi artist Jamal Campbell as they thrust you into a stunning sci-fi murder mystery on the other side of the universe! I know in polarized time, a bisexual black woman GL might not for everyone but I loved this series and can only hope we get another case in Farsector. There's the occasional page that does look like the 80s colour palette vomited on it, but those are few and far between. 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.