The Green Lantern Corps has been through just about everything our crazy universe has had to throw at them. So what’s a writer to do with such an experienced group of warriors? Well, toss them into a mysterious and strange new universe of course! Cullen Bunn steers John Stewart, the new leader of the Corps, and a few of his fellow Lanterns into a brand new and undoubtedly intriguing adventure with the newest Green Lantern title to hit the shelves. The results are fresh, fun, and full of enigmas. Best of all, it stands apart from its sister Green Lantern book.
Why is that such a good thing? Well, for a long time now the main Green Lantern title, the one starring Hal Jordan, has had the spotlight. While there’s certainly nothing wrong with that, this did mean that, more often than not, the other Green Lantern titles would be dragged into whatever event was happening in the main book. This had the unfortunate side effect of nothing particularly important happening in the sister titles since, of course, all the major milestones of the event dujour would take place in Green Lantern proper. Now that Hal has gone renegade, the storytellers behind Green Lantern: Lost Army have all the freedom in the world to tell a whole story that isn’t forced to fit in the confines of a tale being told in an entirely separate book.
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Why is that such a good thing? Well, for a long time now the main Green Lantern title, the one starring Hal Jordan, has had the spotlight. While there’s certainly nothing wrong with that, this did mean that, more often than not, the other Green Lantern titles would be dragged into whatever event was happening in the main book. This had the unfortunate side effect of nothing particularly important happening in the sister titles since, of course, all the major milestones of the event dujour would take place in Green Lantern proper. Now that Hal has gone renegade, the storytellers behind Green Lantern: Lost Army have all the freedom in the world to tell a whole story that isn’t forced to fit in the confines of a tale being told in an entirely separate book.
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