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  Ok everybody, it’s time to get some theories confirmed in Green Lantern #9, written by Geoffrey Thorne with art by Tom Raney, Marco Santucci, and Maria Laura Sanapo, colors by Michael Atiyeh, and letters by Rob Leigh. John has gone through a portal and arrived on the world of the Lightbringer, which we now know is the name of this gigantic incomplete being standing among a sea of what appear to be buildings, but are actually Matrix-style pods each containing hundreds of people.  These people are the populations of all the planets who were brainwashed into becoming loyal followers of the Lightbringer, all for the purpose of hooking them up to these towers and feeding their collective life force to that incomplete giant. All of this is being orchestrated by our mysterious hooded man in the chair, who identifies himself as Esak, a God of New Genesis, and during a confrontation with Lonar, lets it slip that his goal is apparently to resurrect the New Gods, starting with Light...

Hey everybody, it’s time to get into Green Lantern #8 written by Geoffrey Thorne, art by Chriscross and Marco Santucci, inks by Juan Castro, colors by Michael Atiyeh, and letters by Rob Leigh.   The title this time is “Lucis Lator” which is Latin for “The Bearer of Light”. John, Lonar, and a small team of Quest Lanterns arrive on the planet Anacitus to save Kilowag, Hannu, and anyone native to that world who hasn’t been brainwashed into joining the cause of the mysterious Lightbringer.  Everyone John wants to save is scattered around, so John puts them all inside multiple protective shields, then links those shields with tunnels, so everyone can reach the escape ship that lands inside one of those safe areas.  Lonar insists that John needs to stop thinking like a Green Lantern and look at the big picture, embrace what he’s become, and fulfill his role as an ascended being.  John thinks Lonar is full of crap, but can’t pass up the chance to fly through the Lightbring...

  Hey everybody, it’s time to talk about Green Lantern #7 written by Geoffrey Thorne, art by Tom Raney and Marco Santucci with Randy Owens on finishes, colors by Mike Atiyeh, and letters by Rob Leigh. Lonar transports John billions of years into the past, to witness the first encounter between the Guardians of Oa and the New Gods.  In addition to having some level of mastery over the entire Emotional Spectrum, the Oans are using weapons and armor identical to what they would eventually give the Manhunters, which is really interesting because between the armor, the guns, and the blue faces, that Manhunters were designed to look like the Guardians, they made them in their own image, which adds a few more layers of symbolism onto the genocidal rampage that the Manhunters would eventually go on. The Oans decided to intervene in a battle between Apocalypse and New Genesis because they believe all New Gods to be chaotic beings of magic that must be erased.  And Ganthet is re...

Green Lantern has had a long history in television animation, appearing in over a dozen cartoon series over the course of more than fifty years.  The Filmation cartoons in the 1960’s, various incarnations of Superfriends in the 1970’s and 80’s, Justice League and JLU in the early 2000’s, and so many more, until finally getting a series of its own. Green Lantern The Animated Series had 26 episodes and began airing in early 2012, and quickly became a show that is, in my opinion, one of the best things you could give a new fan to show them what makes Green Lantern so great, as it distills so many of the franchise’s best qualities and ideas into something that’s both exciting and easy to understand.  That show still means a lot to so many of us, and its sudden cancelation after a single season left a hole in the hearts of Green Lantern fandom that many still haven’t filled. But what if I told you there was another Green Lantern cartoon show out there that you may not have seen, ...

  Hey everybody, it’s time to talk about Green Lantern #6 written by Geoffrey Thorne, pencils by Marco Santucci and Tom Raney, colors by Mike Atiyeh, and letters by Simon Bowland.   This issue backs up a bit, and shows us what Jo was doing while Simon went down to the surface of New Korugar to retrieve Keli.   Jo takes a moment to tell Simon (and the reader) that her ring functions differently from a standard issue Green Lantern ring…it automatically recharges itself over time without the need for a battery, but the trade off is that the process takes a long time, and her maximum output is lower than that of a normal ring.   It felt like a pretty natural way to catch up anyone who hasn’t read Far Sector and didn’t already know how Jo’s ring works.   Incidentally, if you haven’t read Far Sector, you really should.   It’s one of the best Green Lantern series I’ve ever read, and I’ll be talking about it in detail whenever I find the time. Then we get somethin...

  Good news everybody, Jessica Cruz is back in the pages of the Green Lantern 2021 Annual #1, written by Ryan Cady with art by Sami Basri and Tom Derenick, color by HI-FI, and letters by Rob Leigh.   This issue is a direct continuation of the Jessica Cruz story in Future State Green Lantern #1, by mostly the same creative team.   This issue was actually delayed because of some COVID-related shipping and supply chain problems, so it takes place before the events of Green Lantern #5, despite it coming out the same day as Green Lantern #6.   That said, it’s self-contained contained enough that you can read it pretty much whenever without it being a problem, though you’ll get more out of it if you read Jessica’s story in Future State Green Lantern #1 first. Despite her Green Lantern ring being de-powered, Jessica managed to defend her Sector House from three Yellow Lanterns, and then used one of their rings to travel to New Korugar and return them to Sinestro.  But...

  So, Infinite Frontier.   Where to start…technically I already did start, I did a video all about issue #1 a few months ago, back when I thought this was going to be DC’s big summer event.   It isn’t, by the way…if anything, it’s setting up something else that’ll probably happen next year.   And my original plan was to do a whole video series on this, covering it one or two issues at a time, because I was sure it was going to flesh out a hand full of lesser used Green Lantern characters while advancing the whole DC Universe forward in the process.   And while that kind of happened, it came in the form of a mini series that did nothing all that meaningful for the majority of its run, and then became a convoluted mess at the very last minute. …so I’m going to split this into two sections, the Lantern stuff and the story.  Yes, I can talk about all the Green Lantern stuff in this mini series without including anything about the story, and yes that’s a bad si...

Whenever people talk about Star Sapphire, they’re usually referring to Carol Ferris, the most iconic version of the character who debuted in the early Silver Age and has since spread across all forms of media.  Carol first appeared in Showcase #22 in 1959, the same issue that introduced the world to Hal Jordan and the concept of a science fiction version of Green Lantern.  Carol would become Star Sapphire for the first time three years later, in 1962’s Green Lantern #16.  The alien Zamarons chose Carol to become their queen, so they gave her the Star Sapphire gem, an object that made her incredibly powerful, while also overwriting her personality.  This allowed writers to add in a few new layers of complexity to the standard superhero love triangle…Hal loved Carol, but Carol loved Green Lantern, and didn’t know Green Lantern was Hal.  Now on top of that, Carol was Star Sapphire, enemy of Green Lantern, but Carol didn’t know she was Star Sapphire, but Hal knows s...