Who needs the Justice League?

Green Lantern #8 (vol. 2) 

Way back in 1961 while Ray Palmer was still trying to tell one end of a white dwarf star from the other, Hal Jordan had already mastered the art of shrinking to atomic proportions.

Green Lantern #24 (vol. 2)

And Aquaman? Who needs him? With a Green Lantern power ring on his finger, turning on the water works was no problem for the Emerald Gladiator.

The Lantern Corps'

So far there have been nine Lantern Corps' featured in the DC universe. Seven Corps representing the "living and breathing energies" that form the Emotional Spectrum, as well as two Corps representing life and death respectively.

 Each Corps has its own avatar, beings of pure emotional energy collectively referred to as the entities.

NAME	EMOTION	COLOR	ENTITY
Green Lantern Corps	Willpower	Green	Ion
Sinestro Corps	Fear	Yellow	Parallax
Blue Lantern Corps	Hope	Blue	Adara
Agent Orange	Avarice	Orange	Ophidian
Indigo Tribe	Compassion	Indigo	Proselyte
Red Lantern Corps	Rage	Red	The Butcher
Star Sapphires	Love	Violet	The Predator
White Lantern Corps	Life	White	The Entity
Black Lantern Corps	Death	Black	Black Hand

YOU SHALL HAVE TO DO.

People will tell you that the Green Lantern back-story remains untouched with the introduction of DC's New 52 but this isn't strictly true.

One change that has been made, very much for the better, is the retcon of Kyle Rayner's origin story.

Check out this scene from Emerald Twilight #3 (Green Lantern #50) where Ganthet appears in a nightclub back alley and selects at random the inebriated Mr. Rayner to be the torchbearer for the billion year old light of the Green Lantern Corps. "You shall have to do."  And then pops off into the ether not to be seen again for many an issue.  Don't get me wrong - I like Kyle Rayner, he is Green Lantern par excellence for a generation of comic book fans.  But this throw away scene did not sit well with me.


Compare then Ganthet's assertion in Green Lantern: New Guardians #1 that he will ensure "the last power ring finds it way into the right hands".  In the New 52 Kyle was purposely selected to be the keeper of the green light and as the story unfolds we are beginning to find out more about  Ganthet's unique plan for him.  The Guardian even has the decency to give his new champion a bit of GL background and power ring training before abandoning him to his mission.  Nice one Ganthet!!

Golly

Hal gets a tad excited.

AN ABSTRACT LIFE FORM FROM SECTOR 875

Welcome to Flodo's Page, a footnote in the great Book of Oa dedicated to a little ring wielding gas bubble with the willpower to take down a Space Sector.


What you have here is yet another blogsite dedicated to all things comic book, with a significant leaning towards the Green Lantern universe.  Think of it as a mind-meld transferring geekery directly from my brain into yours.