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20th Dec '12 10:54:07 AM SeptimusHeap

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2nd Dec '12 12:10:15 AM EricW

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Coincidentally, as Green Lantern was doing so well in sales at the time, the story of the old continuity was permitted to continue. This lead to the WhamEpisode of GeoffJohns's run on the title: War of the Green Lanterns. The aftermath of BlackestNight did not bring peace between the lantern corps as hoped, but then, the mad guardian Krona, who rebelled against the guardians before and turned the manhunters (the guardian's first army) into indiscriminate killers returned. Stealing the emotion entities, and gaining the attention of all 7 corps, the leaders (and anHal Jordan) pursued Krona hoping to retrieve the emotion entities (and in the red lantern leader's case, kill Krona for causing the manhunters to massacre his sector). However, Krona then took control of the green lanterns with the entities, enslaving the entire corps outside of Hal, Guy, Kyle, John and Kilowog (briefly). Teaming up with Ganthet, the earth lanterns were forced into impossible decisions, but ultimately killed Krona and saved the corps at a terrible cost.

In the aftermath of the war, the green lanterns are still trying to rebuild, and some unique developments are still happening, the biggest of which being the guardians of the universe (sans sayd who was a prisoner of the orange lanterns at the time, and ganthet who was brainwashed) deciding to elliminate the green lantern corps and replace it with a new "third army".

1st Dec '12 11:55:30 PM EricW

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Naturally, they weren't. The Green Lanterns triumphed. Parallax was contained again, this time being split four ways and kept inside Hal, Kyle, John, and Guy's batteries. Conversely, the Guardians introduced a new rule into the book of Oa (the codex that defines all green lantern conduct): Green lanterns are now permitted to kill against corps enemies. Incidentally, this was one of the goals Sinestro had going into the war, making it quite the XanatosGambit on his part. Meanwhile Ganthet and Sayd (a female Guardian who had taken a name and Ganthet's lover) were exiled from the Guardians for the crime of feeling emotions. Before they left, they revealed that there was an entire emotional spectrum: Red for anger, Orange for greed, Yellow for fear, Green for willpower, Blue for hope, Indigo for compassion, and Violet for love. They shared a prophecy -- the prophecy of BlackestNight -- which stated that all seven Corps would be created, would war with each other, and then be overwhelmed by the black of death.

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30th Sep '12 6:26:27 PM ProtoBuster

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30th Sep '12 6:26:00 PM ProtoBuster

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* '''John Stewart:''' The first black man to bear the mantle of Green Lantern, John was introduced in TheBronzeAgeOfComicBooks at the very end of the famous O'Neil/Adams Green Lantern run. An architect (since retconned to also be a marine sharpshooter), he married fellow Green Lantern Katma Tui and headlined the book from 1983-1985 (the latter year, during the ''CrisisOnInfiniteEarths''). Sadly, Katma was killed and John Stewart downward spiraled due to the events of "Cosmic Odyssey", which had Jim Starlin write Stewart out of character as being a cocky jerk-ass whose refusal to take any help from Martian Manhunter led to an entire planet exploding. Got his own book in the early 90s called "Green Lantern Mosaic", which was sadly retconned out by Emerald Twilight. He gained a great deal of popularity due to his exposure as the primary Green Lantern of the {{DCAU}} ''JusticeLeague''. Currently co-stars in ''Green Lantern Corps'' with Kyle and Ganthet. Due to the fact that all the other Lanterns have their own books (and the {{DCAU}} exposure), he tends to be the Green Lantern picked for team memberships.
* '''Kyle Rayner:''' Introduced in [[TheDarkAgeOfComicBooks the 90s]] as the [[YoungerAndHipper younger, more hip, replacement]] to Hal Jordan, [[SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute for which he got]] [[ReplacementScrappy lots of hate in the beginning]]. ExecutiveMeddling established him from the start as the "One, True Green Lantern", which caused John and Guy to lose their rings (and, of course, contributed to the hate since they had fans too). As the star of the title for nearly ten years, Kyle earned his own share of fans and was accepted as "One True Green Lantern" by an entire generation of Green Lantern fans who couldn't care less about Hal Jordan. Kyle was the first GL not to have the yellow weakness in his ring, and is distinguished from other Lanterns by his creativity and imagination. He is also the first Green Lantern to become Ion, and the man responsible for the rebirth of the Guardians and, through them, the refounding of the Green Lantern Corps. Honored with the title Torchbearer (for keeping the Green light alive in the darkness), he now serves on Oa as an Honor Guard Lantern. Kyle co-stars with John and Ganthet in ''Green Lantern Corps''.

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* '''John Stewart:''' The first black man to bear the mantle of Green Lantern, John was introduced in TheBronzeAgeOfComicBooks at the very end of the famous O'Neil/Adams Green Lantern run. An architect (since retconned to also be a marine sharpshooter), he married fellow Green Lantern Katma Tui and headlined the book from 1983-1985 (the latter year, during the ''CrisisOnInfiniteEarths''). Sadly, Katma was killed and John Stewart spiraled downward due to the events of "Cosmic Odyssey", which had Jim Starlin write Stewart out of character as being a cocky jerk-ass whose refusal to take any help from Martian Manhunter led to an entire planet exploding. Got his own book in the early 90s called ''Green Lantern: Mosaic'', which was sadly retconned out by ''Emerald Twilight''. He gained a great deal of popularity due to his exposure as the primary Green Lantern of the {{DCAU}} ''JusticeLeague''. Currently co-stars in ''Green Lantern Corps'' with Kyle and Ganthet. Due to the fact that all the other Lanterns have their own books (and the {{DCAU}} exposure), he tends to be the Green Lantern picked for team memberships.
* '''Kyle Rayner:''' Introduced in [[TheDarkAgeOfComicBooks the 90s]] as the [[YoungerAndHipper younger, more hip, replacement]] to Hal Jordan, [[SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute for which he got]] [[ReplacementScrappy lots of hate in the beginning]]. ExecutiveMeddling established him from the start as the "One, True Green Lantern", which caused John and Guy to lose their rings (and, of course, contributed to the hate since they had fans too). As the star of the title for nearly ten years, Kyle earned his own share of fans and was accepted as "One True Green Lantern" by an entire generation of Green Lantern fans who couldn't care less about Hal Jordan. Kyle was the first GL not to have the yellow weakness in his ring, and is distinguished from other Lanterns by his creativity and imagination. He is also the first Green Lantern to become Ion, and the man responsible for the rebirth of the Guardians and, through them, the refounding of the Green Lantern Corps. Honored with the title Torchbearer (for keeping the Green light alive in the darkness), he now serves on Oa as an Honor Guard Lantern. Kyle co-stars with John and Ganthet in ''Green Lantern Corps''.

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Hal's adventures were some of the Silver Agiest of TheSilverAgeOfComicBooks, with tons of weird SciFi plot loops and imaginative extrapolations of the core concept. Villains like {{Sinestro}}, the renegade Green Lantern with a yellow power ring acquired from the antimatter universe of Qward, or Star Sapphire, Carol Ferris's split-personality alter-ego empowered by the Zamarons, female ''anima'' to the Guardians' ''animus'', were defeated by clever and original use of the simple yet versatile GreenLanternRing. John Broome and Gardner Fox brought in strange plots laced with a subtle -- occasionally a bit ''too'' subtle -- dash of characterization. Alan Scott was even brought back, and the "green flame" was given a {{retcon}}ned link to the Corps.

By the beginning of TheBronzeAgeOfComicBooks, unfortunately, the title was falling on the sales charts, so they brought in Denny O' Neil on scripts and Neal Adams on art, and turned it into the flagship "[[RippedFromTheHeadlines relevant]]" title at DC. O' Neil saw Green Lantern as the symbol of Authority and "The Man", and paired him up with Oliver "Green Arrow" Queen, a former millionaire playboy and now [[TheArcher warrior]] positioned as a firebrand liberal. He sent them off on a cross-country trip to "find America", downplaying the cosmic space adventures of yesteryear and instead using them to explore the social issues of the day. The revamp climaxed with a famous storyline involving drug addiction, in which Green Arrow's sidekick Speedy admits to having a heroin addiction. The run concluded with the debut appearance of John Stewart, a black architect who was selected to become Hal Jordan's new backup after Guy Gardner was injured.

The O' Neil/Adams run was, however, cancelled with issue 89 and the character was transitioned into a back-up feature in the pages of ''TheFlash'', which dropped Green Arrow and returned to sci-fi. After four years, Green Lantern was revived as an ongoing series with Green Arrow as his partner, until issue #125 when Green Arrow left the series once and for all, allowing for Hal to headline his own book by himself again.

Around this time, a ''Tales Of The Green Lantern Corps'' backup was added as a regular feature to focus on the alien Lanterns. Several of these stories would be written by Alan Moore, who would introduce Sodam Yat, Rot Lop Fan, Mogo, and many others. A "Tales of the Green Lantern Corps" mini-series was also released which had the entire Corps taking on Nekron for the first time and introducing Arisia, who would become Hal's love interest.

''Green Lantern'' became ''Green Lantern Corps'' with issue #201 with Hal, John, Katmai Tui, Sabbac, Kilowog, Ch'p and Arisa setting up shop on Earth when the Guardians left Oa with their female counterparts the Zamarons. The revamp though would last only two years, as DC controversially cancelled the book (and depowered all but a handful of Green Lanterns) in order to make Green Lantern the flagship character of Action Comics, which was revamped into an eighty page weekly comic anthology series. ''Action Comics'' as a weekly series failed, and Green Lantern was given a new series in 1989. To go along with this, two mini-series were launched, to retell Hal's origin for new readers: ''Emerald Dawn'', which controversially [[{{Retcon}} retconned]] Hal as a drunk driver who murdered a man and the less controversial ''Emerald Dawn II'', which told the untold tale of Sinestro's expulsion from the Green Lantern Corps as well as retconning in a student-mentor relationship between Hal and Sinestro.

John Stewart went through a series of terrible events, as his wife Katma was murdered by a possessed Carol Ferris and an [[MyGreatestFailure overconfident failure]] to keep a planet from exploding, and leaving him contemplating suicide (only to be talked out of it by the MartianManhunter via tough love). He eventually got his own book, ''Green Lantern: Mosaic'', featuring his adventures in trying to lead a patchwork world made of chunks teleported from different planets. Elsewhere, Guy Gardner received a major revival, joining the Justice League and gaining a boisterous, if not sometimes obnoxious, personality.

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Hal's adventures were some of the Silver Agiest of TheSilverAgeOfComicBooks, with tons of weird SciFi plot loops and imaginative extrapolations of the core concept. Villains like {{Sinestro}}, the renegade Green Lantern with a yellow power ring acquired from the antimatter universe of Qward, or Star Sapphire, Carol Ferris' split-personality alter-ego empowered by the Zamarons, female ''anima'' to the Guardians' ''animus'', were defeated by clever and original use of the simple yet versatile GreenLanternRing. John Broome and Gardner Fox brought in strange plots laced with a subtle -- occasionally a bit ''too'' subtle -- dash of characterization. Alan Scott was even brought back, and the "green flame" was given a {{retcon}}ned link to the Corps.

By the beginning of TheBronzeAgeOfComicBooks, unfortunately, the title was falling on the sales charts, so they brought in Denny O'Neil on scripts and Neal Adams on art, and turned it into the flagship "[[RippedFromTheHeadlines relevant]]" title at DC. O'Neil saw Green Lantern as the symbol of Authority and "The Man", and paired him up with Oliver "Green Arrow" Queen, a former millionaire playboy and now [[TheArcher warrior]] positioned as a firebrand liberal. He sent them off on a cross-country trip to "find America", downplaying the cosmic space adventures of yesteryear and instead using them to explore the social issues of the day. The revamp climaxed with a famous storyline involving drug addiction, in which Green Arrow's sidekick Speedy admits to having a heroin addiction. The run concluded with the debut appearance of John Stewart, a black architect who was selected to become Hal Jordan's new backup after Guy Gardner was injured.

The O'Neil/Adams run was, however, cancelled with issue #89 and the character was transitioned into a back-up feature in the pages of ''TheFlash'', which dropped Green Arrow and returned to sci-fi. After four years, Green Lantern was revived as an ongoing series with Green Arrow as his partner, until issue #125 when Green Arrow left the series once and for all, allowing for Hal to headline his own book by himself again.

Around this time, a ''Tales of The Green Lantern Corps'' backup was added as a regular feature to focus on the alien Lanterns. Several of these stories would be written by Alan Moore, who would introduce Sodam Yat, Rot Lop Fan, Mogo, and many others. A "Tales of the Green Lantern Corps" mini-series was also released which had the entire Corps taking on Nekron for the first time and introducing Arisia, who would become Hal's love interest.

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Elsewhere, when DC found themselves with a big crossover in 1996 coming up that no one was willing to write, they gave into writer Karl Kesel's demand that he be allowed to mercy kill Hal Jordan in exchange for writing "The Final Night". In the four-part story, Hal Jordan sacrificed his life to save Earth, restarting the dying sun as the super-hero community forgave him and gave him a big send-off, in which even ExiledFromContinuity Vertigo characters Swamp Thing and John Constantine showed up to pay tribute to Hal.

Hal's death, though written pretty well, didn't quite stop fans from being furious with his character derailment and death, so DC decided to call their bluff and did a six part storyline in Green Lantern #101-107 where a rookie version of Hal Jordan was teleported into the present for a series of adventures with Kyle Rayner. The storyline produced the highest sales of the Ron Marz era, leading to DC green-lighting a then newcoming Geoff Johns to make Hal Jordan the new Spectre in the 1999 DC crossover ''Day of Judgement''. Hal was given a new series, "The Spectre", which sold well but lasted two years before Hal was left making guest appearances in other books.

Good things don't last forever. Marz was in the process of bringing the Corps back when his contract expired. Judd Winick took over and... wasn't as good. He wasn't bad, but his plots had a tendency to be {{Anvilicious}}, especially when it came to newly-created Terry Berg, Kyle's gay friend who was gay and liked boys because he was gay. Did we mention he was gay? Because Winick sure did. Taking over for Winick was Ben Raab, who wrote poorly and [[CharacterDerailment had a very poor grasp on the characters]]. Sales plummeted.

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Hal's death, though written pretty well, didn't quite stop fans from being furious with his character derailment and death, so DC decided to call their bluff and did a six part storyline in ''Green Lantern'' (vol. 3) #101-107 where a rookie version of Hal Jordan was teleported into the present for a series of adventures with Kyle Rayner. The storyline produced the highest sales of the Ron Marz era, leading to DC green-lighting a then-newcoming Geoff Johns to make Hal Jordan the new Spectre in the 1999 DC crossover ''Day of Judgement''. Hal was given a new series, "The Spectre", which sold well but lasted two years before Hal was left making guest appearances in other books.

Good things don't last forever. Marz was in the process of bringing the Corps back when his contract expired. Judd Winick took over and... wasn't as good. He wasn't bad, but his plots had a tendency to be {{Anvilicious}}, especially when it came to newly-created character Terry Berg, Kyle's gay friend who was gay and liked boys because he was gay. Did we mention he was gay? Because Winick sure did. Taking over for Winick was Ben Raab, who wrote poorly and [[CharacterDerailment had a very poor grasp on the characters]]. Sales plummeted.

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5th Jul '12 10:54:53 AM kkhohoho

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17th May '12 8:13:49 AM SeptimusHeap

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