Green Lantern #202 – “Turf” – Steve Englehart/Joe Staton/Mark Farmer
This one starts with John Stewart, Kilowog, and Salakk heading to the Pacific island where Hector Hammond was based. Hammond is gone, but they run into Dr. Polaris and his henchmen Dropded, Throttle, and Truk (who looks like a Transformers reject). Dr. Polaris was looking to recruit Hammond and assumes the Lanterns got to him first, until John corrects him. The two groups start fighting and the advantage goes back and forth until John gets crushed under his own energy shield. The other Lanterns whip up a medi-chamber for him and retreat. In El Segundo, Hal Jordan drops by Ferris Aircraft and runs into Tom Kalmaku, who updates him on what’s been happening. Con-Trol (and their employee, the mysterious Mr. Smith)
kicked Carl Ferris out and are now running the company. Tom’s new engine design seemed like a good bet, so they asked him to work with them on building it. Smith tells Hal he’ll be test-flying the engine once it’s done. After Smith and Tom leave, Hal runs into Carl Ferris, who’s gotten a little nuts. He accuses Con-Trol of killing his daughter Carol to force him out of the company. Of course, Hal knows Carol isn’t dead, but he can’t very well tell her father she’s Star Sapphire, so he keeps his mouth shut. Hal feels so guilty he agrees to do some corporate espionage on Carl’s behalf. Meanwhile, Arisia is moving into John and Katma’s old place. Katma gets worried when Arisia has a dizzy spell, but Arisia insists she’s fine and examination with Katma’s ring confirms that. 
Ch’p is out in Griffith Park, trying to commune with Earth’s rodent population, but he soon realizes they’re not as highly evolved as he is. John (now fully recovered) summons all seven of Earth’s Lanterns to their new Citadel to tell them about the run-in with Dr. Polaris. John knows how to track Sonar’s vibrations, so the Lanterns head to Modora to confront the assembly of villains. There’s another new baddie with them, a woman named Malignon who can emit enough radiation dissolve flesh. The two groups fight and Malignon finally reveals herself to be Ch’p’s old foe, Dr. Ub’x. (Apparently, Ub’x was masquerading as Polestar last issue and Truk earlier this issue, as well as Malignon.)
Firestorm #49 – “Justice: Lost and Found” – Gerry Conway/Joe Brozowski/Mike Machlan, Rodin Rodriguez, Pablo Marcos
This one starts with Firestorm going back to New York to appear in court over Felicity Smoak’s lawsuit for ruining her business. After saving an out-of-control plane, Firestorm heads to the courthouse and Professor Stein tells Ronnie that Felicity does have a point: if they want to operate outside official sanction of the law, they have to accept responsibility for their actions. Stein doesn’t believe they owe Felicity a million bucks, but he says they do owe her something for wrecking her business. But the case ends up being dismissed because Felicity has changed her mind about the
lawsuit. When Firestorm asks her lawyer why, he says Firestorm’s impassioned speech last issue made Felicity feel ashamed for suing him. At Vandermeer University, Bree Brandon and Doreen Day hang out and discuss their academic careers; seems Bree is only a business major because her family runs a brokerage house and expects her to follow tradition. Her real passion is acting, which we already know since we saw last issue that Bree is actually Moonbow, the supposed Robin Hood who rips off money from gangsters and gives it (anonymously) to the poor. But really, Bree does the Moonbow stuff for fun, 
to relieve the boredom of her regular life. Firestorm returns to Pittsburgh and splits into Stein and Ronnie. Firestorm has been given official status with the Pittsburgh police, so they each have beepers in case Moonbow strikes again. Ronnie predicts she’ll lie low for a while and Stein hopes that’s true, since he has a hot date with Emily Rice. (Their last date was cut short in issue 45.) Unfortunately, Ronnie’s prediction is wrong … Moonbow goes after the Benedict mob, so the cops send for Firestorm. Stein is forced to run out on Emily again (and it seemed like she was about ready to bang him), making her wonder what he’s hiding. Moonbow breaks into Benedict’s safe, but it turns out to be a
trap and she gets shot. Suddenly, her nighttime activities aren’t so much fun anymore, and things get even worse when Benedict has her tied up and lowered into his pool for a slow drowning death. Firestorm shows up and saves Moonbow, pounding Benedict’s men. Firestorm ends up letting Moonbow go, saying she’s a nice kid who got in over her head playing Robin Hood (and with her wounds, she won’t be doing anything too physical for a while anyway). After she leaves, Ronnie tells Stein he recognized Moonbow as Bree Brandon and decided to cut her a break.
Vigilante #31 – “Unholy Alliances” – Paul Kupperberg/Chuck Patton/Rick Magyar
This one continues from last issue with Vigilante about to get pounded by a mob thug named Bates. Bates’s boss got shot last issue and he’s not the only one … mob bosses are being wasted all over town and Vigilante wants to stop the bloodbath. After a brief fight, Vigilante convinces Bates he wants to find out who whacked his boss and stop them, so Bates agrees to work with him. Lieutenant Stein is still looking for evidence that Adrian Chase had something to do with Judge Welles’s death and he finds a witness: a bag lady who lives across from Adrian’s place recalls him bringing in a body wrapped in a tarp the night
Welles was killed. Meanwhile, Adrian is still tormented by the guilt of his career as Vigilante and the copycats he’s inspired since. When his ex-girlfriend Marcia calls, he’s desperate to reconnect, but she puts him off until tomorrow. Dave Winston (the latest Vigilante) heads home and runs into his girlfriend (or FWB, I’m not sure which) Anne Pasquale, who just happens to be a cop. Naturally, she doesn’t know about Dave being Vigilante, so they pass the time banging each other’s brains out. Downtown, the assassins who have been knocking off mobsters (including Leo Hage, who Vigilante almost caught a couple issues back) attack a gang in Chinatown, setting off a virtual war in the streets. Officer Pasquale gets the call and has to leave, not realizing that Dave will soon be 
following her as Vigilante. Lieutenant Stein contacts a reporter named Nussbaum to give him what he has on Judge Welles’s death, promising there’ll soon be more evidence to back it up. Vigilante arrives in Chinatown wanting to stop the fighting, but knowing the cops are after him too. That doesn’t stop him from helping some cops who have gotten caught in the crossfire. Vigilante fights his way through a bunch of gang members and heads inside the restaurant where the heaviest fighting is concentrated. The cops (including Stein) see him go in, but can’t stop him. Vigilante is surprised to see Hage in the restaurant, but he quickly shoots the gun out of his hand. (This Vigilante is much less bloodthirsty than the first two.) As the cops move in, Hage takes off and leaves his men to fight Vigilante. Vigilante deals with them easily, but finds himself held at gunpoint by Stein and Pasquale.
Warlord #107 – “Bride of Yaug” – Michael Fleisher/Ron Randall
This one starts with Travis Morgan, Shakira, and Daimon (Shakira’s old friend-turned-thief) making their way through a desert, still looking for the wizard who can free Morgan’s daughter from her aging curse. After fighting their way past giant sand squids and a sandstorm, they find themselves outside a golden city. Meanwhile, on the island of Ummschal, Machiste and Mariah are being tortured for the pleasure of the wizards who have captured them. The wizards know mental torture can be much more effective than the physical
kind, so they make Machiste think Mariah is dead, using illusions to show her being killed right in front of him. The ruse works, so when Mariah tries to communicate with Machiste from the next prison cell, he assumes his grief is causing him to hallucinate. In the desert, the city turns out to be ancient and ruined, but not quite deserted. Morgan and friends are attacked by green-skinned men calling themselves the Sons of Yaug. Their leader (Wauk) frees the captives immediately and apologizes, saying they don’t get many visitors. (He seems quite interested in Shakira, but with that outfit she 
wears, I can’t really blame him.) Wauk invites them to dinner, but can’t help them with their quest since he’s never heard of the Greenfire Sea or the House of Celestials. On Ummschal, Mariah takes out some guards and frees Machiste, who finally believes she’s still alive. They force one of the wizards to call the skeleton-boat that brought them to Ummschal so they can use it to escape. They bring the wizard to direct the skeletons in steering the boat, but before they get very far they’re confronted by a water elemental summoned by Ummschal’s wizards. In the desert city, Morgan has nightmares and awakens to realize they’ve been drugged and Shakira is missing. (You’d think after all the betrayals and muggings they’ve gone
through, that Morgan would be more careful about dining with strangers.) Morgan and Daimon go looking for Shakira and find her in an underground chamber, chained to a pillar. Shakira’s still out of it from the drugs, so she doesn’t notice the worshippers have summoned Yaug (a sort of minotaur/warthog god), or that she’s meant to be his sacrificial bride. While Daimon frees Shakira, Morgan goes after Yaug, who’s tougher than Morgan thought. Morgan finally dumps the brazier full of fire on top of Yaug, lighting him up. As Morgan and the others flee, the city burns (even though it’s made of stone) and all of Yaug’s followers perish. I’ve noticed a lot of Mike Fleisher’s Warlord stories have a definite Conan flavour to them, but this one really reminds me of Red Nails; it’s not exactly the same, but there’s certainly a similar feel to it.