Green Lantern Corps #1

Green Lantern Corps #1
Well, this is just not good. It doesn't even come close to being good. The characters are all sterotypes. Youve got the battle-hardened soldier, the newly-promoted officer, the rookie, the racist, the reformed guy, and the asshole. And some minor supporting characters with absolutely no personality whatsoever. In fact, the only main character with actual thought put into him is Guy Gardner, and that's quite possibly because we already know him so well. If he were a new character, he'd be just as awful as all the rest of the characterizations.
And the Guardians have sheathed their entire planet in some sort of armor? Wha?
The art is weaker than it was in the Recharge mini - that was OKAY - and so is the story. I'm willing to accept the new status quo of the rings, namely, that the yellow impurity can be overcome by fearlessness, but the new status quo of the Guardians as unapproachable bureaucrats rubs me the wrong way. Sure, the Guardians have ALWAYS been assholes, but they perpetrated their assholery in person, not through intermediates. Whatever. This is so bad that it defies the format of a traditional critique. AWFUL.