Mosaic Comics

If I were to ask you how many Lanterns are from Earth, what would you say?  There’s a surprising amount of variety to the way people will answer that question.  Some people will tell you six (Hal, John, Guy, Kyle, Simon, Jessica), and maybe half of those will up it to seven when they realize they forgot about Alan.  Every now and then you’ll find someone who remembers to count Teen Lantern in Young Justice, and Jo in Far Sector, bringing the total to nine.  And then there’s those who’ll tell you that, for them, there’s really only four, because who needs all the rest when you’ve got the four corpsmen right here?  I’ve seen it argued a lot that five, six, nine Lanterns from Earth is too many, and it’s all gotten way out of hand, and DC doesn’t know what it’s doing…and that’s kind of funny, because there’s way more than nine of them. So first off, a few guidelines.  I’m not counting alternate versions of anybody.  I’m only interested in seeing how m...

For a long time, Green Lanterns strove to be totally fearless.  They believed that the only way to truly conquer fear was to deny it completely, and remove it from your life.  Eventually they’d come to realize that’s completely impossible, and it’s far more effective to treat fear as something necessary that you have to learn to deal with…but either way, it still puts the Lanterns at odds with Batman, who sees fear as a valuable tool to manipulate his enemies and discourage crime.  The Batman identity exists because the image, behavior, and legend of Batman scares bad guys, pure and simple. Which is why it’s always fun to see Batman interact with Green Lanterns.  And granted, a lot of those interactions consist of them either yelling at each other, or punching each other in the face…but every one of these encounters boils down to some level of exploration of how these characters relate to fear. Which is why it makes all the sense in the world to give Batman ...