Now that the long Johns dynasty is finally over, can we step away from galaxy-shaking stories that crossover all the Green Lantern titles? 
 Nope. 
 Instead we dive right back in with Light's Out, another big crossover. At least it moves beyond the woes of the Guardians and the emotional spectrum! 
 Sort of. 
 The premise is actually quite troublesome because it suggests that the emotional spectrum rings have destroyed the universe before by depowering it, and will do so again. Decades ago, Star Trek: The Next Generation did a similar story about warp speed destroying the universe, and it was so problematic that it's been ignored ever since. This take looks equally troubled. Not only do our heroes become villains (because they're destroying the universe), but there's simultaneously great and constant angst over using the rings. Worst of all, the Lanterns become the fascist ring police, arresting people for "unauthorized use of the emotional spectrum". 
 I kid you not. Even now, it sounds like satire to me, but it's offered with a straight face. 
 The crossover is also a mess because (like so many Nu52 books) the storyline is spoiled by poor trade paperback alignment. This volume contains only a fragment of the Light's Out narrative, and so it's mangled and hard to understand. For perhaps the first time ever in the Nu52, the editors tried to include a text page to bridge the many missing issues ... but it's mostly impenetrable. 
 Beyond that, that stories that we do get are just way too full of dull fighting. The first two issues are the worst, because they contain an entirely nonsensical attack on Oa by the Orange Lanterns that feels like it was just the comic spinning its wheels until it got to Light's Out. 
 I really wanted to like the volume, because I'm a huge fan of Robert Venditti's Valiant work, and at times his writing skill shines through. I liked his bits about rebuilding the Corps and bringing in new members (even if they're admittedly repetitive, since the Corps had been rebuilt about 73 times since the Green Lantern comic started). But that goodness was mostly crushed beneath the mandates of the crossover, which really soured this volume. 
 So, take some decently good writing, but weigh it down with a massively incomplete crossover with some very troublesome philosophies underlying it, and you get ... not good. I was disappointed and skimming more and more as I got to the end of the volume.