Announced last weekend, I am taking over GREEN LANTERNS ✳️✳️ for DC Comics! Part of DC’s REBIRTH initiative, GREEN LANTERNS stars the two NEW Green Lanterns of Earth: Simon Baz and Jessica Cruz!
I’ve been calling this “sci-fi Lethal Weapon.” Jessica and Simon are the reason I am so psyched to write this book. They’re rookies, they’re strangers, they’re strapped with the most powerful weapons in the DCU. They’re figuring out how to be Green Lanterns, and they don’t know if they can trust each other – or if they should be afraid of each other.
At the same time, they have to protect the most dangerous sector in the universe: Earth. We are gonna bring the ENTIRE Green Lantern mythos crashing down on their heads, whether they’re ready or not. And it all starts with the RED LANTERNS.
Could not be more excited to be creating this book with artists Robson Rocha and Ardian Syaf. They are superstar GREEN LANTERN artists, and with all the epic and emotion this title requires, they are bringing it hard. Coming this June! ✳️✳️
Sam Humphries is one of the best writers out there these days, can’t wait to see what he does with Green Lanterns!
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Camberwell Now “Green Lantern”
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In Brightest Day or Blackest Night, no great deal shall escape your sight!
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Star Trek/Green Lantern #2
by: Jen Keith
Star Trek/Green Lantern: the comic frontier. These are the pages of the crossover event between DC and IDW. Its six-issue mission: to explore the meeting of two franchises, to seek out new story lines and new cameos, to boldly go where no crossover has gone before.
He flies through the vast reaches of the unknown, handling galaxy spanning conflicts between a menagerie of alien species with bravery and style. But wait, are we talking about James Kirk or Hal Jordan? For being infinitely immense, space seems a little smaller as these two powerful personalities collide in a singularity of action and cosmic adventure.
Kirk and crew discover the abandoned Lantern rings on a desolate planet, and as usual, can never leave well enough alone. Luckily some worthy ring-bearers are in the vicinity; the rings pass to members of the Enterprise’s crew and alien antagonists that will be delightfully familiar to fans of the Star Trek mythos. With yellow, red, and orange rings in the mix, it’s not all smooth sailing out here in the black. My favorite part is seeing how each character handles their newly acquired ring, and as a Bones fan, I haven’t stopped grinning about the potential hilarity. (Not sure if writer Mike Johnson will provide a “I’m a doctor, not a flying space cop!” line, but fingers crossed.)
Styled after the cast of the new Star Trek films, Angel Hernandez’s art finds a middle ground between actor-based realism and the stylization of a Green Lantern series. Alejandro Sanchez’s coloring stays true to the atmosphere of the movies and makes JJ Abrams proud as what better opportunity for bright, energetic colors and lens flares than Lantern rings?
Star Trek/Green Lantern promises to be an entertaining romp through two beloved series, and I’m glad to see DC and IDW taking advantage of such a perfect crossover opportunity. To fans of either space-faring franchise I say: live long, prosper, and give this comic a read!
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Jen Keith is a Digital Editor at comiXology, comic artist, music addict, and loves Star Trek in brightest day and blackest night.
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Convergence: Green Lantern/Parallax #1
If you first started reading comics in the 90s like me, then chances are you already have this comic on your pull list. If not, please read on: During the Emerald Twilight storyline, which came at the heels of Death of Superman, Greatest Green Lantern of All Time, Hal Jordan goes nuts and kills a bunch of his Lantern allies, then murders his bosses, the Guardians of the Universe, destroys the Central Power Battery, and becomes Parallax, an all-powerful being who goes on to rewrite the continuity of the whole DC Universe. The lone surviving Guardian escapes and gives the last ring to Kyle Rayner who then takes up the mantle and becomes the last Green Lantern. If you grew up in this era, Kyle wasn’t just GL, he was THE Green Lantern, but he forever lived in the shadow of Hal Jordan: Greatest and Worst GL Of all time. It was a fascinating time to be a comics fan.
Convergence: Green Lantern/Parallax is so interesting because it puts us right back in middle of that action. In this story, Brainiac’s Convergence domes cut the Lanterns off from the source of their power. Hal, powerless and crippled by the horror of what he’d done as Parallax, is forced to face the consequences of his actions, when suddenly the dome is dropped and Hal’s power returns. The two GLs are forced to fight for the survival of their world against otherworldly invaders, but in this world Kyle is relatively new and inexperienced, leaving Parallax to pick up will Hal crack under the pressure and blow his second chance at redemption? Read to find out!
[Read Convergence: Green Lantern/Parallax #1 on comiXology]
Jonah Chuang is a Production Coordinator Assistant at comiXology. Emerald Twilight is his favorite GL story.
The Dead Shall Rise in Geoff John’s Blackest Night – Now on sale for 99¢ an issue!
The sale also has a bunch of other Johns Green Lantern books as well as the Blackest Night Tie-Ins.