What's essential to know about Green Lantern?

[Absent-minded Prof]

I've been following Johns' Green Lantern via trade paperbacks until now, thus just recently up through the Sinestro Corps War. However, I have decided to start buying the floppies effective with the beginning of Blackest Night. I just got in my shipment for July from my monthly mail-order service (no local comic book store, alas), with the first half dozen or so issues in the Blackest Night saga.

What is it essential that I know to bridge the gap between the end of the Sinestro Corps War and the beginning of Blackest Night?

Thanks in advance,

The Prof

[Bored at 3:00AM]

All the essential stuff is already set up for you by Geoff Johns' writing. You could jump into Blackest Night without even reading Sinestro Corps War and still know what's going on from the dialogue and exposition given to you.

Of course, you'll appreciate the story a heckuva lot more if you'd read all the stories building up to this, each of which showcased a different color of the various new Lantern Corps and fleshed out the early history between Hal, Carol, Sinestro, Atrocitus and Black Hand.

[CYOTI]

The Guardians have combined Manhunter technology with their most loyal GLs to create the Alpha Lanterns.

Sinestro escaped from Oa.

One of the Guardians is working to bring about the Black Lanterns.

Red, Blue, Orange and Indigo arise. Red are angry and spit acidic blood. Orange are greedy energy constructs made from the victims of their leader. Blue are faithful and combine hope and green lantern will power to heal.

[Absent-minded Prof]

Thanks to all (and any others who expand on this).

Bored at 3:00AM: I do intend to get the intervening stories, but I'm too impatient to wait and read them in order when I have the beginning of Blackest Night in hand! And yes, I do find Johns one of the easier writers to jump into along the way.

CYOTI: What's Indigo do?

- Prof

[CYOTI]

Indigo show up in Blackest Night Tales of the Corps.

[Maestro]

he has a ring... it's green... he can fly and stuff...

that's basically all I knew when I read Sinestro Corps War and I loved it

for Blackest Night it's mostly the same thing. there are these guys with rings... there are red rings, blue rings, orange rings... basically all the colors of the rainbow, there's a ring for it. the story should take care of the rest

[Mister Blisterfists]

I would recommend Emerald Twilight in additon to the Johns stuff.

(Hey, if you don't know who Parallax is, you're not gonna care that Hal is no longer Parallax).

[Calybos]

What's essential to know about Green Lantern?

His name's Alan Scott; he's a radio broadcasting executive; and he appears regularly as a senior member of the JSA.

I also hear there's some other little punks running around with the name "Green Lantern" too, but Alan's magnanimous enough to let them get away with it.


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[grphxkindaguy]

The two Emerald Dawn mini-series from the '90's are also fun reads, but I'm not sure if they've been retconned by Johns' recent 'Secret Origins' stuff...

[Absent-minded Prof]

What's essential to know about Green Lantern?

His name's Alan Scott; he's a radio broadcasting executive; and he appears regularly as a senior member of the JSA.

I also hear there's some other little punks running around with the name "Green Lantern" too, but Alan's magnanimous enough to let them get away with it.


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There is truth here.

[Laminator_X]

The wikipedia article (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_Lantern_Corps) on the GL Corps is especially informative.

[Absent-minded Prof]

To answer my own question a bit more thoroughly than I asked for (i.e., more than just the essentials which I think some of the previous posts gave, thanks to all)...

The Annotated Blackest Night page has really good summaries of the main story arcs bridging the gap between Sinestro Corps War and Blackest Night.

http://sites.google.com/site/theannotatedblackestnight/green-lantern

Cheers, The Prof