Green Lantern is a Comic Book that started in April 2021. Written by Geoffrey Thorne and drawn by Dextor Soy, it is part of DC's Infinite Frontier line following Dark Nights: Death Metal.
John Stewart and other Lanterns are joined by Sojourner Mullein (of Far Sector) and Teen Lantern (of Young Justice (2019)) to figure out the mystery of the Central Power Battery's destruction and the Corps' place in the new galactic hierarchy.
The series ended after a run of 12 issues and an Annual. Thorne would also subsequently do a John-centric epilogue one-shot that acted as a bridge between the conclusion of this series and John's role in Dark Crisis.
Tropes in Green Lantern include:
- Aborted Arc: Thorne's stated he had a Trilogy planned for his run and the 2021-2022 run represented Act One. However, the critical and commercial backlash and changing plans at DC for Dark Crisis and Dawn of DC scuttled those plans.
- Ascend to a Higher Plane of Existence: John begins ascending into a New God, a process another god tries to guide him through by convincing him to cut ties with his old life. John refuses and remains on the material plane to keep helping his friends as the Emerald Knight.
- Bittersweet Ending: The series ends with John Stewart using his new powers to recreate the Green Lantern Corps central power battery, bring back all the deceased Green Lanterns as energy beings and restore the rings of most of the surviving Green Lanterns, but Simon Baz remains ringless, Princess Iolande and B'dg are stuck with instead being a Star Sapphire and a Blue Lantern respectively and the final fates of Jessica Cruz, Kyle Rayner and Guy Gardner remain unaddressed.
- Brought Down to Badass: This applies to a lot of the Lanterns having their rings shut off.
- John Stewart is still a Marine and an incredibly quick thinker allowing him to fight off multiple alien soldiers and stop them from harming another group of aliens.
- Jessica Cruz, despite being a normal human with not much training outside of her Lantern training, is able to defeat three Sinestro Corps members, leading her to gain a Sinestro ring.
- Berserk Button: Keli does not take it well when the Guardians try to remove her gauntlet. John warned them as much.
- Despair Event Horizon: John hits this when he finds out how many of the Dark Sector Lanterns were hunted and killed by the Qinoori.
- First Day from Hell: Keli was being taken in to meet the Guardians by Jon and Simon. She attended a United Planets Conclave with them when all hell broke loose, resulting in the assassination of a Guardian and then she was left one of the only two people who can access the Green light. This all happened on one day and it was supposed to be her introduction to the Corps.
- From Bad to Worse: The first issue starts in mid chaos and the tells us how we got there. In the third issue the Central power battery explodes.
- Heroic Sacrifice: When the rings go offline, Amanita is able to survive the vacuum of space but John is not. Amanita saves John by harboring him inside his body melting around him. When John wakes up it’s been weeks and all that’s left of Amanita is a puddle.
- Insistent Terminology: Whenever the Guardians refer to the Multiverse, John corrects them with the term Omniverse.
- It's All About Me: A plot point in the first half of the run. This is actually how Sinestro ultimately convinces Jo he wasn't responsible for the CPB's destruction. Yes, he had the technical know-how and knowledge of Oa's defenses and security systems. But Sinestro is also an egomaniac who named his own Corps after himself. So, if he had blown up the GLC and killed half its Lanterns? He'd be crowing about it from here to the Vega System.
- Killed Offscreen: Due to their rings being cut from their power a number of Lanterns were killed. Arisia Rrabb and Isomot Kol died in said disaster, though whether the former will resurrect herself again is unknown. 30 of the Lanterns that were assigned to the Dark Sector when the battery went out were hunted and killed by the Qinoori including Vath Sarn, Alif Kon, Zolol, Tigraf Bel Jen, Ash-Pak-Glif, Morro, Nautkeloi and Palaqua.
- Last of Their Kind: Currently, the only three active Green Lanterns are Hal, Jo and Keli as Jo's ring wasn't connected to the Central Power Battery and Keli uses the mysterious green gauntlet she got since before she joined the reformed Young Justice.
- Nothing Is the Same Anymore: First the Lanterns recede from much of the galaxy at the behest of the United Planets leaving many sectors defunct, and then the Central Power Battery explodes leaving most of the Lanterns powerless at best and dead at worst. The only ones who haven't been left powerless are rookie Lantern Jo Mullein, the child Keli Quintela and Hal Jordan on Earth
- Roaring Rampage of Revenge: Keli goes on a beeline towards New Korugar upon hearing that Sinestro might be responsible for the Central Power Battery exploding. It goes better than you might expect. She puts up pretty good fight against Sinestro Corp members before running out of steam. If it weren’t for new Sinestro Corp member Jessica Cruz she might have been killed but it was still impressive.
- The Smart Girl: Peya Fel, who is a Coluan, is the brains and voice of reason for the United Planets as it’s her who convinces most the reluctant planet representatives to allow the Oa to join through sound logic. She sticks around on Oa after the battery is destroyed and becomes the brains for Jo’s lantern recovery operation.
- Teeth-Clenched Teamwork: Justified since Keli is a hyperactive child dealing with trauma from watching an alien die horribly as well as watching Simon get severely injured. She doesn’t listen to Jo at all.
- Token Good Teammate: Jessica Cruz in the Sinestro Corps. She doesn't believe for a second in Sinestro's talk about trying to bring peace and order through empathy, but she's going to use the yellow light's power to try and protect people.
- What Happened to the Mouse?: The whereabouts of Guy Gardner and Kyle Rayner, aside from a non-canon Future State story of Guy becoming leader of a primitive alien race, remain unaddressed by the end of the series.
