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  Hey everybody, it’s time to dig into Green Lantern #11 written by Geoffrey Thorne, with art by Tom Raney and Marco Santucci, finishes by Maria Laura Sanapo, colors by Mike Atiyeh, and letters by Rob Leigh. It is all out war on the planet Oa.  On one side you’ve got Sojourner Mullein and Hal Jordan, both with functional Green Lantern rings.  You’ve got the Justice League, the United Planets, the depowered Green Lantern Corps piloting Iron Man suits, and the Guardians fresh from their weird stasis/death/coma.  On the other side you’ve got Koyos, a Guardian bent on ridding the universe of his own people and their creations, convinced that the universe can only grow and prosper naturally without their interference.  Koyos is currently the size of Godzilla, and powered by a mixture of the Green Lantern Central Power Battery, magic from the sorcerer’s world, and the anti-chaos weapon we saw back in Green Lantern #1 (which I guess is what the yellow squid hat is?)....

  Hey everybody, it’s time to dive into Green Lantern #10, written by Geoffrey Thorne, art by Chriscross, Juan Castro, and Marco Santucci, colors by Mike Atiyeh, and letters by Rob Leigh. The Lightbringer has been destroyed, and the power within the massive giant is erupting out into the universe, in the form of a massive Godstorm that threatens to destroy everything, and the only way to stop it is for John to absorb the Godstorm into his own body.  Part of me wonders if this specific action is the reason Lonar guided John here in the first place…the Godstorm is a mass of cosmic power that New Gods like Lonar can’t absorb for some reason, but John is a mortal who ascended, meaning that he’s powered by cosmic energy without technically being a God, so he can absorb the Godstorm.  Unless Lanar suddenly becomes willing to have a direct, detailed conversation once this is all over, I don’t know that we’ll actually ever get an answer, though maybe that’s fine for a story that...

  There’s a popular narrative that’s been going around in the fan community for a while now.   It’s this idea that DC hates Hal Jordan, and refuses to use Hal Jordan in any projects across any form of media.   And if you just list it all out, it might sound convincing…Hal’s not starring in the Green Lantern comic right now, he hasn’t been part of the Justice League in a long time, he’s not supposed to be in the HBO Max tv show…and when he does show up, it’s in an elseworld mini series where he’s usually some kind of bad guy.   But no matter how I look at it, I just can’t agree with this idea that DC is somehow disrespecting the character, or the fans of the character, by choosing not to use him for much right now. I think it would do everyone a lot of good to get some perspective, so let’s take a look at a handful of fan-favorite characters who’ve each existed for a very different length of time, and see how long it’s actually taken them to come and go from the spot...

  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, ...