Mosaic Comics

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...

  Today I want to talk about a short Green Lantern story that I’m pretty sure most people haven’t read.   It was published under the title “From Beyond the Unknown #1”, and was a seventeen page digital-only comic that released in June of 2020, as part of a pretty extensive line of digital-first and digital-exclusive comics.   The reason I’m bringing it up is because it’s actually a pretty good story that directly addresses a concept that comes up every now and then, but rarely gets talked about in a serious way…that concept being how hard it actually is for a Green Lantern to patrol their entire sector, and what happens to a sector when its Green Lantern stops showing up. This is something the Guardians are trying to lecture Hal about, in the middle of a fight with Doctor Polaris.  They’re concerned that Hal’s been neglecting the rest of his sector while giving so much attention to Earth.  There’s a good push and pull here, where Hal says that Earth by itself h...

  Ok everybody, it’s time for Green Lantern #5, written by Geoffrey Thorne, with art by Tom Raney, Marco Santucci, and Andy McDonald, colors by Michael Atiyeh, and letters by Rob Leigh.   And if the last few issues have left you missing classic Green Lantern action, this issue’s got you covered, because Keli Quintella the Teen Lantern is storming New Korugar to take all her frustration out on Sinestro, who she thinks caused the disaster on Oa.   And it’s all out war between Keli and the planetary defenses…drones, Yellow Lanterns, they’re throwing everything they’ve got at her and the constructs keep flying! As soon as Keli reaches the planet’s surface, she’s put to sleep by a Yellow Lantern, and I guess the identity of this character is supposed to be a surprise since they put her in that hooded cloak and never say her name, but…I mean, it’s very clearly Jessica Cruz.  Even if we didn’t read her Future State story that showed her getting the yellow ring, or the soli...