Mosaic Comics

  I first started following Green Lantern on a regular basis back when Kyle Rayner was the only Lantern in the universe.   I mean, Alan Scott was still there, but they made enough superficial changes to him that they could pretend he wasn’t a Green Lantern anymore…even though he absolutely was.   And I’m glad that this was the era where I first got to dig into Green Lantern, because Kyle himself viewed it as this awe-inspiring thing to be a part of, and he had fun welding that power while also having respect for what it can do.   The mix of reverence and imagination that Kyle’s stories brought to Green Lantern made it so much fun to watch him figure out what his ring is capable of, and how far he could push his limits…and he could push them pretty damn far. Kyle had a habit of displaying overwhelming levels of power whenever the situation called for it, and it pretty much started right away.  One of the earliest things Kyle did with his ring was destroy a plane...

  Today I want to help you get over one of the major hurdles of becoming a Green Lantern fan: figuring out where to start.   A series with this many characters and this much history can be intimidating, and I wouldn’t blame anyone who looked at all of it and found it too overwhelming to dive into.   So I’m going to do what I can to make the process as easy as possible for you, so that you can start enjoying Green Lantern with very little trouble. First of all…and I can not stress this enough…there is no right or wrong way to start reading Green Lantern.  We all tend to get really hung up on starting things from the beginning so we don’t miss anything, but this franchise has been going for 80 years and is full of so many good jumping on points that there’s honestly not much reason to worry about starting in exactly the right place.  If anything, you should exploit that 80 year history to make sure the Green Lantern you start with is the Green Lantern most suited...

  The time is finally here, we’re looking at the first issue of a new Green Lantern series written by Geoffrey Thorne, with art by Dexter Soy and Marco Santucci, colors by Alex Sinclair, letters by Rob Leigh. And we’re starting off with Oa filled with people, because the Guardians agreed to host a gathering of the newly formed United Planets.  If you don’t know, the United Planets is basically just the United Nations in space…a large number of worlds throughout the galaxy agree coexist peacefully in the interest of creating a galactic community that can benefit everyone.  It’s a concept that originated in the Legion of Super-Heroes, and something that Brian Michael Bendis did when he took over the Superman books was tell the story of the United Planets being founded in the present day, the idea being that if all of these worlds are supporting each other, it becomes a lot more difficult and risky to make a move against any one of them, thus preventing global catastrophes ...