Warning: comprises spoilers for Inexperienced Lantern: Battle Journal #1!
Earth’s new Inexperienced Lantern is a big jerk — and that will find yourself being a superb factor. It’s a season of change for the Inexperienced Lantern Corps: the once-independent group is below new administration. The Corps new bosses have their very own approach of doing issues, and which means appointing Earth a brand new Inexperienced Lantern, one who follows orders and toes the road.
John Stewart meets this new Lantern in Inexperienced Lantern: Battle Journal #1 by Philip Kennedy Johnson, Montos, Adriano Lucas, and Dave Sharpe. Former Inexperienced Lantern John Stewart helps his mom with repairs of her home, however when he steps outdoors for a breath of recent air, he’s imprisoned in inexperienced chains. They have been created by the brand new Inexperienced Lantern Varron, who informs Stewart that his ring is contraband, and he should give up it.
Varron threatens Stewart’s home, upsetting him additional. Stewart attracts on the facility inside himself — no ring required — to overpower Varron, who rapidly surrenders. Stewart sends Varron packing together with a message to the United Planets and the “faux Lanterns” to depart him alone.
Stewart has a proper to really feel disenfranchised. Up till lately, the Inexperienced Lantern Corps labored straight below the authority of the Guardians of the Universe, who have been an unbiased physique. Nevertheless, the Guardians relinquished majority management of the Corps to the United Planets, an interplanetary governing physique. The UP has carried out huge adjustments throughout the Corps, together with sealing off Sector 2814 — which incorporates Earth — and stripping its Inexperienced Lanterns of their authority. Within the midst of this huge upheaval, John Stewart obtained an improve of his personal, one that will make him probably the most highly effective Lantern ever, and an enormous menace to the UP and their Corps.
Nevertheless, the United Planets can’t let energy like Stewart’s go unchecked. “Lantern” Varron is the vanguard of the UP’s watered-down model of the as soon as venerable Inexperienced Lantern Corps. It’s obvious that Varron blindly follows orders and is over-confident in his energy. He talks a superb recreation, however when confronted by John’s energy and expertise, Varron instantly folds. There’s a darkish implication right here: Inexperienced Lanterns are supposedly resistant to concern, however Varron yields, and rapidly at that — habits hardly changing into of a real Inexperienced Lantern. Varron is a snapshot of what the Inexperienced Lantern Corps is rapidly changing into: bureacratic and pompous.
At the moment, Earth’s former Inexperienced Lanterns are pursuing their very own agendas, however confrontations between them and the brand new, UP-sanctioned Corps are inevitable. John Stewart already has a low opinion of them, and Varron merely reinforces John’s doubts. It’s not troublesome to guess what Hal Jordan will suppose; Hal constructed a profession on being a maverick, which might put him instantly at odds with the UP. The considered Man Gardner, Jessica Cruz, Jo Mullein, or any of the opposite Terran Lanterns reacting to this new incarnation of the Corps is equally intriguing. Varron’s introduction guarantees to create a brand new dynamic between Earth’s Inexperienced Lanterns, one ripe with story potentialities.
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