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She has a background that we actually learn about, her character design is unique, she's compassionate and competent and unafraid to stand up to authority even when she is the lone outsider on a planet of 3 alien races. And, like Dennis O’Neal did in the 70’s, Jemisin sets up Green Lantern as a literal Social Justice Warrior, as Jo investigates a series of rare murders on a planet that has outlawed emotions and uncovers political corruption and persecution.

Jemisin weaves a political mystery yarn across these twelve issues that introduces a unique society with multiple factions and beliefs all before pulling the rug out from under them and leaving it all completely different from the way she found it. The next day, Syzn messages Jo asking her to quell an unapproved protest of over a hundred thousand people in Platform Forget Not.Canhaz then tells her that the Feelsnet is used for the exchange of illegal or scarce content, particularly memes made by residents of the City.

The more emotional and quiet moments are some of the book’s most powerful though, with everything Jemisin wants the reader to see being brought to life perfectly by Campbell. The two talk further discuss Marth’s experiences with Switchoff, then make out and have intercourse. She has been both a soldier and a police officer, though neither one of those roles ended well for her. 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. Similarly, much of character development happens in masterfully rendered facial expressions, or in times of leisure where Jo lets down her hair and wears sweats or a summer dress.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. K. Jemisin joins bestselling Naomi artist Jamal Campbell in the Eisner Award-nominated sci-fi murder mystery Far Sector , collecting all 12 issues, concept art and character designs, and an introduction by Gerard Way. It’s like there was supposed to be some McGuffin controlled by the government, and why not emotions, I guess?

I was also dazzled by the trio of races Jemisin dreamed up -- carnivorous plant-people, "optionally corporeal" indentured AP, aerial predatory primates -- and each one's world, buildings, food, and attire. The majority of Far Sector is extremely engaging though, not least because of Campbell's (inter)stellar art. I think a big part of the problem was the color scheme for the alien world which somehow managed to be simultaneously Day-Glo bright and murky dark. 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. The ring Jo was given is powered by the willpower required to live with fear - as in the kind of willpower that leads people living with oppression to continue striving for goals that seem impossible to reach.

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. 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. Glory explains that she was waiting for the referendum since the CEPD’s forces would be spread thin so she could take control of a military and use force against the biological civilians.

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