From issues 0-17 + Annual Which Green Lantern title do you enjoy the most.
- Green Lantern
- Green Lantern Corps
- Green Lantern: New Guardians
- Green Lantern: Red Lanterns
What is your favorite Green Lantern title in the new 52?
@Clark_EL said:
I will, can you tell me some stuff that happens...do they fight the third army a lot?
Well so in the beginning of the series the former female Guardian Sayed (who was then serving as Larfleeze's personal Guardian) makes one ring from each lantern corps abandon it's user. She then sends the rings to find Kyle Rayner seen below:
Representatives of each corps then find Kyle and wonder why he's stolen rings from members of their corps. With Kyle's claims of innocence falling on deaf ears, a battle ensues. The battle is only broken up when Saint Walker arrives. He believes Kyle is telling the truth so the pair set off for Oa to find some answers, with the representatives of each corps in hot pursuit. The Guardians assume that Kyle obtained the rings through foul play and attack him. In order to defend himself, Kyle utilizes the power of all the rings and turns into this:
Kyle isn't able to control it for very long because he doesn't have mastery over those colored rings. However, he is able to escape with Saint Walker, Larfleeze and the others, and they end up at Larfleeze's home. It is then revealed that Sayed sent those rings to Kyle in the hopes that he would unite the corps and save her love Ganthet from the influence of the other Guardians.
That basically sets up the premise of the book where Kyle tries to master the emotional spectrum, and the book has a strong overarching theme of love.
Fast forward to the Rise of the Third Army and Kyle is looking for Hal for advice on the Guardians. He meets up with Carol Ferris who is watching a news report about Hal and Sinestro's battle with Black Hand. When Kyle decides to use his ring to find Hal he's informed of Jordan's "death", however Carol's feelings for Hal and her abilities as a Star Sapphire reveal to her that he is still among the living. Carol shows Kyle his future and we see him in various uniforms from the colors of the emotional spectrum. While Kyle doesn't think that it's possible for him to combine the emotions together Carol sees this as the only way to save Hal. Thus begins his journey to master the emotional spectrum. He is now doing it at the behest of two lovers, Carol Ferris in order to save Hal, and Sayed in order to save Ganthet. It's worth noting that Kyle would have never agreed to do it if he didn't have strong feelings for Ganthet and Hal himself. He sees Ganthet as the closest thing he's ever had to a father, and Hal as a friend, fellow lantern, and brother-in-arms.
In issue #13 the Rise of the Third Army event has kicked off and Kyle is training with Atrocitus in order to master Rage and harness the power of the Red Lanterns. He does of course, and moves on to Compassion. In issue #14 Kyle is seen apparently having just completed his training with Indigo-1 and now has mastery over four different corps, Green, Blue (he mastered Blue earlier on during a crossover with Blue Beetle I believe), Red, and Indigo. He finds the only remaining Yellow Lantern, Arkillo, and trains with him in order to master fear. After doing so, in issue #15, he, Carol, and Arkillo head on over to Larfleeze's homeworld so that Kyle can master Greed. Larfleeze is of course very reluctant to share his power, but agrees after Carol uses her mastery of Love to appeal to Larfleeze and his emotions (apparently his past is quite tragic.) Kyle is soon able to master Greed but is interrupted by an invasion of the Third Army. Sayed then sacrifices herself in order to allow everyone to escape so that Kyle may continue his journey and save Ganthet. In issue #16, the conclusion of the Rise of the Third Army event, Kyle has escaped to Zamaron where he is trying to harness the final emotion, Love. He is having trouble doing so, and soon Arkillo, Carol, and Saint Walker meet up with him after having been on an adventure of their own (in the Annual, skip it, it's just set up for Threshold) eventually Ganthet (who of course has been brainwashed and cut off from all emotions) and the Third Army attack. Forced to fight his close friend, mentor, and father figure, Kyle finally harnesses the power of Love and transforms into the White Lantern:
Ater seeing Kyle as the new White Lantern, Ganthet quickly flees to Oa. Kyle, Carol, Arkillo, and Saint Walker decide to take the fight straight to the Guardians and head off for Oa themselves. What follows is in Green Lantern Corps Annual #1(the conclusion to Rise of the Third Army, I'm assuming you read it.)
Issue #17 was the last issue and Kyle is confronted by Volthoom who is trying to siphon Kyle's immense power for himself. I won't summarize or spoil that one because it's the most recent issue and is probably still on the shelves at your local LCS. It's a great issue though, and has one of the best covers I've ever seen (seriously, it's stunning.)
Anyways, that's a (not so) brief summary of all the stuff that matters right now. Of course I skipped over a ton, but that is basically the knowledge needed when going into the series when the new creative team takes over, and the stuff that pertains to the rest of the Green Lantern Universe.
Thanks for asking! That was fun (I had nothing better to do really), hope you enjoy the series!
I would love to see them as the New Guardians it might be a little weird for me though, because of all that GL history with the regular guardians.
But after trying to kill the all the Lanterns I could see how they wouldn't just accept them back in :)
Yeah, it would be weird. But, it would take an incredible amount of suspension of disbelief for the Guardians to just go back to normal and everyone has to pretend like nothing happened. This was the last straw for those little blue bastards! lol.
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