Lantern Sinestro Corps
Green Lantern – Part Two
Despite the critical success of the Green Arrow team-ups, the period was not a strong one in Hal Jordan’s history. His longtime girlfriend broke up with him, and that sent Hal traveling around the country doing odd jobs here and there. Also during this period, two new back-up Lanterns were introduced.
Guy Gardner premiered in the 1960s and was shown to be Abin Sur’s second choice after Hal for the role of Green Lantern. Stubborn and hot-headed, Guy has had many altercations with his fellow heroes. He’s also gone through a number of changes, among them wielding a yellow power ring and calling himself Warrior. Eventually, Guy Gardner would grow up, and be placed in charge of training the rest of the Green Lantern Corps.
John Stewart premiered in the 1970s and has been the “regular” Green Lantern during times in which Hal Jordan and Kyle Rayner resigned their posts or were off world. John is famously the most stable of the Earth bound Green Lanterns, but his tenure has not been without grief. Most notably, he was unable to prevent the destruction of the planet Xanshi, and that failure would plague him for years.
In the 1990s, more change came to the Green Lantern comic. Following the destruction of Coast City by the Cyborg Superman, Hal went insane (this was later blamed on being infected with the parasite Parallax) and tried to destroy and remake the universe. Though ultimately unsuccessful, Hal caused plenty of other damage during his insane and evil days. He killed Sinestro, destroyed the Green Lantern Corps, and annihilated all but one of the Guardians. Though most of this damage was later retconned away, many longtime fans were truly disturbed and upset by the evil turn of their hero.
When Earth’s sun was threatened by a sun-eater, Hal redeemed his evil ways by nobly sacrificing himself to save Earth. Still not earning his rest, Jordan came back as the Spectre, the Spirit of God’s Vengeance for several years. This would change in the storyline Green Lantern: Rebirth, during which Hal Jordan came back to life and was freed from the influence of Parallax.
In the aftermath of Hal Jordan’s turn to the dark side, the one remaining member of the Guardians of the Universe, Ganthet, sought out a new Green Lantern. He chose Kyle Rayner, a young freelance artist from New York. Kyle’s painful introduction to the world of superheroing began shortly thereafter, when the villain Major Force killed his girlfriend, Alexandra DeWitt. A large bulk of Kyle’s storylines have dealt with his guilt over not being able to save her, and that guilt grew as other loved ones came into harm’s way and Kyle was unable to prevent their harm.
On a brighter note, Kyle has been a member of both the Titans and the Justice League of America. One of his closest friends was Connor Hawke, the second Green Arrow.
For a time, Kyle absorbed more energy than he could handle and he became the godlike entity known as Ion. Ultimately, after a heart to heart with Superman, Kyle decided to relinquish those powers. The excess energy Kyle relinquished was used to restart the central power battery on Oa and to help give life again to the Guardians of the Universe. This would be an important step in rebuilding the Green Lantern Corps to their former glory, one of the major current themes in the Green Lantern comics.
The powers and abilities of the Green Lanterns have depended on who is wielding the ring, but the power ring can be used to construct any object in the wielder’s imagination. In addition, it has given wearers the power of flight, telepathic abilities, radiation generation, invisibility, and force field generation.
Hal Jordan, Alan Scott, John Stewart, Guy Gardner, and Kyle Rayner are all currently alive and well in the DC comic book universe. Alan Scott enjoys his post as one of the elder members of the Justice Society of America while Hal and John continue to take turns patrolling Earth in service to the Guardians. Kyle and Guy are currently primarily off Earth, helping to rebuild the Green Lantern Corps in their own way.
Essential Storylines:
~ Hard Traveling Heroes
~ The New Frontier
~ Zero Hour
~ Final Night
~ Rebirth
~ Sinestro Corps War
~ Green Lantern: Mosaic
~ Emerald Twilight
~ Emerald Knights
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Sinestro Corps?
Is Sinestro Corps it’s own series or part of the Green Lantern one?
No it’s not getting it’s own series, at least it hasn’t been announced by anyone if it is yet. It opens with the 1-shot and continues in both the main Green Lantern book and the Green Lantern Corps book. There’s also another Tales of the Sinestro 1-shot
Books for the Sinestro corps arc are:
* GREEN LANTERN #21, out July 11.
* GREEN LANTERN CORPS #14, out July 25.
* GREEN LANTERN #22, out August 8.
* GREEN LANTERN CORPS #15, out August 22.
* GREEN LANTERN #23, out September 12.
* GREEN LANTERN CORPS #16, out September 26.
* TALES OF THE SINESTRO CORPS PRESENTS PARALLAX #1, out September 19
That’s not to say there will be more tie-ins but those are the books for now. There’s not many supervillain ongoing books right now and the fact this book didn’t even get its own separate miniseries, like Green Lantern Corps had with Green Lantern Corps: Recharge, makes me doubt they’ll give it an ongoing in future. And neither GL book is selling in high numbers right now either. It doesn’t make sense for DC to think the Sinestro Corps will sell a high number of issues for beyond 1 or 2 arcs
Green Lantern Trailer : The Sinestro Corps War
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Green Lantern: The Sinestro Corps War Vol. 1 (Hardcover) $16.33 No Information Available |
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Green Lantern: Sinestro Corps War Vol. 2 (Paperback) $10.09 Written by Geoff Johns, Dave Gibbons and Peter J. Tomasi; Art by Ivan Reis, Ethan Van Sciver, Patrick Gleason, Oclair Albert, Angel Unzueta, Dustin Nguyen, Joe Prado and others; Cover by Van Sciver |
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Green Lantern: The Sinestro Corps War Vol. 1 (Paperback) $10.09 Description not available. |
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Green Lantern: Tales of the Sinestro Corps (Paperback) $10.09 Description not available. |
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Green Lantern: Tales of the Sinestro Corps (Hardcover) $19.59 Trapped in the depths of the Sinestro Corps` Citadel and face-to-face with the Guardian of Sinestro`s army of fear, Green Lantern Hal Jordan must find the will-power to battle these terrible foes. |
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Green Lantern: The Sinsetro Corps War Vol. 2 (Hardcover) $16.33 Hal Jordan has overcome great fear throughout his life, but there is still fear lingering inside him, and Hal`s about to be reminded as he leads Earth`s Green Lanterns on a life-or-death rescue mission in the middle of a war against the most terrifying… |
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Green Lantern: First Flight (Two-Disc Special Edition) $9.99 Studio: Warner Home Video Release Date: 07/28/2009 Run time: 75 minutes Rating: Pg13… |
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Green Lantern: First Flight [Blu-ray] $12.92 GREEN LANTERN-FIRST FLIGHT (BLU-RAY/WS-16X9)… |
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Green Lantern: First Flight (Single-Disc Edition) $13.11 GREEN LANTERN-FIRST FLIGHT (DVD/WS-16X9)… |
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Officially Licensed DC Comics SINESTRO CORPS Symbol T-Shirt … |
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GREEN LANTERN SINESTRO CORPS SYMBOL: BLACK T-Shirt The dissidents are seeking new members and here’s your uniform, featuring the cool new Corps symbol screenprinted on a black 100% cotton shirt. Check your soul in at the door and join today. The Sinestro Corps wants you!! * Created by Sinestro and the Anti-Monitor. Their power rings are powered by fear. The Central Power Battery is located on the planet Qward. They have their own separate oath: … |
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Blackest Night: Series 2 Action Figure: Green Lantern John Stewart $15.98 As anticipation for the Blackest Night event continued to build, DC Direct released the second series of action figures based on this storyline! All four figures feature multiple points of articulation and include a display base. John Stewart and Indigo each come with their own version of a lantern, and Kryb comes with a baby accessory that fits into the cage-like sack affixed to her back. 4-color… |
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Blackest Night: Series 2 Action Figure: Sinestro Corps Yellow Lantern Kryb $16.98 As anticipation for the Blackest Night event continued to build, DC Direct released the second series of action figures based on this storyline! All four figures feature multiple points of articulation and include a display base. John Stewart and Indigo each come with their own version of a lantern, and Kryb comes with a baby accessory that fits into the cage-like sack affixed to her back. 4-color… |
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Green Lantern Honor Guard Ring Prop Replica $35.00 Join the Honor Guard! Inlcudes an incredible display! Cast in silver metal with green enamel inlay.Don’t miss out on this exciting metal ring prop replica, inspired by the contemporary design of the rings worn by the exclusive Honor Guard of the Green Lantern Corps! Cast in silver metal with a green enamel inlay, the ring also features decorative ridges around the band. The ring comes packaged in… |
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Green Lantern: The Sinestro Corps War, Vol. 1 $8.45 Sinestro — Hal Jordan’s former mentor and arch-nemesis — has gathered an army of soldiers fueled by the fear they instill in others, consisting of Arkillo, Karu-Sil, the Cyborg-Superman, and hundreds more of the most terrifying villains the universe has ever seen! Former Green Lantern Kyle Rayner has been possessed by the entity known as Parallax and now assists the Sinestro Corps in cutting a s… |