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Green Lantern March 2017 Solicitations
HAL JORDAN AND THE GREEN LANTERN CORPS #16
Written by ROBERT VENDITTI
Art and cover by RAFA SANDOVAL and JORDI TARRAGONA
Variant cover by KEVIN NOWLAN
Retailers: This issue will ship with two covers. Please see the order form for details.
“QUEST FOR THE BLUE LANTERNS” part three! Guy Gardner sets out on a one-man mission to take out the one Sinestro Corps ring slinger everyone’s afraid of: Arkillo! Can this Green Lantern with a grudge take down this monstrous alien and prove he’s still the toughest guy in the cosmos to carry a power battery? As Guy’s hope for a fair fight wanes, Hal Jordan and Kyle Rayner streak across the galaxy in a last-ditch effort to find Saint Walker of the Blue Lanterns and ensure that the blue light of hope isn’t extinguished.
On sale MARCH 8 • 32 pg, FC, $2.99 US • RATED THAL JORDAN AND THE GREEN LANTERN CORPS #17
Written by ROBERT VENDITTI •
Art and cover by ETHAN VAN SCIVER
Variant cover by KEVIN NOWLAN •
Retailers: This issue will ship with two covers. Please see the order form for details.
“QUEST FOR THE BLUE LANTERNS” finale! As both the torchbearer of the Green Lantern Corps and the White Lantern of life, Kyle Rayner’s proved he can wield the entire emotional spectrum. But when forced to choose, which ring will he don—and which Corps will he join for the oncoming threats facing all of time and space?
On sale MARCH 22 • 32 pg, FC, $2.99 US • RATED T
GREEN LANTERNS #18
Written by SAM HUMPHRIES
Art and cover by ROBSON ROCHA and JAY LEISTIN
Variant cover by EMANUELA LUPACCHINO
Retailers: This issue will ship with two covers. Please see the order form for details.
“The Last Testament of the First Lantern”! Before the Green Lantern Corps, the Guardians of the Universe embedded a power battery inside a man, imbuing him with unimaginable power. Eventually fearing him, they stole that power back for their own control, but now Volthoom, the First Lantern, has returned with a plan to force Jessica and Simon to help him regain his lost godhood.
On sale MARCH 1 • 32 pg, FC, $2.99 US • RATED TGREEN LANTERNS #19
Written by SAM HUMPHRIES
Art by RONAN CLIQUET
Cover by LEONARDO MANCO
Variant cover by EMANUELA LUPACCHINO
Retailers: This issue will ship with two covers. Please see the order form for details.
“The GREEN IMPURITY” part one! Simon helps Jessica find a Guardian of the Universe to train her. As the rogue Guardian called Rami begins his lessons, but they may not be enough to stop Volthoom’s influence over the Lanterns as his obsession with controlling Jessica again grows.
On sale MARCH 15 • 32 pg, FC, $2.99 US • RATED T
JUSTICE LEAGUE #16
Written by BRYAN HITCH
Art and cover by FERNANDO PASARIN and MATT RYAN
Variant cover by YANICK PAQUETTE
Retailers: This issue will ship with two covers. Please see the order form for details.
“TIMELESS” part two! Scattered across time, the individual members of the Justice League must fight their way back to the present from the ancient past and distant future to stop the Timeless from erasing the Earth’s greatest heroes from history itself.
On sale MARCH 1 • 32 pg, FC, $2.99 US • RATED TJUSTICE LEAGUE #17
Written by BRYAN HITCH
Art and cover by FERNANDO PASARIN and MATT RYAN
Variant cover by YANICK PAQUETTE
Retailers: This issue will ship with two covers. Please see the order form for details.
“TIMELESS” part three! The Justice League’s epic war through time continues as Superman confronts the leader of the Timeless army, who gives the Man of Steel an impossible choice: save Krypton from exploding—or save his friends!
On sale MARCH 15 • 32 pg, FC, $2.99 US • RATED T
EARTH 2: SOCIETY #22
Written by DAN ABNETT
Art by VICENTE CIFUENTES
Cover by BRUNO REDONDO
In this series finale, a new dawn rises on Earth-2. After a terrible struggle, the Wonders have restored their world, better than ever. Can they become the new heroes and caretakers the reborn planet needs to protect it from future threats? And what of the price they paid for peace—what is the final fate of the Earth-2 Batman and his legacy?
On sale MARCH 8 • 32 pg, FC, $3.99 US • RATED T • FINAL ISSUE
GREEN LANTERN/SPACE GHOST ANNUAL #1
Written by JAMES TYNION IV and CHRIS SEBELA
Backup story written by and art by HOWARD CHAYKIN
Art and cover by ARIEL OLIVETTI
Variant cover by DOUG MAHNKE
Retailers: This issue will ship with two covers. Please see the order form for details.
Trapped in a strange rift in time, Green Lantern and Space Ghost are forced to battle a variety of foes—and each other! And even if they manage to survive, they will be thrown into a world with no concept of interstellar travel—or even what an alien is! Stripped of their weapons by a xenophobic culture, the duo will have to battle to regain them—but what happens when Space Ghost dons the Emerald Ring and Hal Jordan put on the Power Bands?
And in the backup feature, Ruff and Reddy were once the toast of nightclubs, variety shows, late night chat fests and Broadway. Learn how they became the comedic duo of yesterday…before they hit rock-bottom today!
On sale MARCH 29 • 48 pg, FC, $4.99 US • RATED T
JUSTICE LEAGUE/ POWER RANGERS #3
Written by TOM TAYLOR
Art by STEPHEN BYRNE
Cover by KARL KERSCHL
Evil begets evil when Brainiac and Lord Zedd partner to destroy their mutual Earths! Can the Justice League withstand the dark terrors of Lord Zedd? Will Angel Grove survive Brainiac’s archival aspirations? Co-published with BOOM! Studios.
On sale MARCH 8 • 32 pg, FC, 3 of 6, $3.99 US •RATED T
Power Rangers are ™ and © 2016 SCG Power Rangers LLC. All rights reserved. Used Under Authorization.
PLANET OF THE APES/GREEN LANTERN #2 (OF 6)
Retail Price: $3.99
Writer: Robbie Thompson, Justin Jordan
Artist: Barnaby Bagenda
Main Cover: Ethan Van Sciver
“Silver Age” Variant Cover: Paul Rivoche
“Movie Poster” Variant Cover: Robert Sammelin
“Spectrum” Variant Cover: Felipe Massafera
“Vintage Action Figure” Variant Cover: David Ryan Robinson
Ape City is in a panic. Word has spread of the capture of a talking human (Hal) and his bizarre alien companion (Sinestro). What’s worse, a group of strange, scarred humans—Mutants—are spotted in The Forbidden Zone, being led by a strange-acting Cornelius, who’s wearing a ring—a ring Sinestro has long been searching for.
Star Trek/Green Lantern Vol 2 #4 (of 6)
Mike Johnson (w) • Angel Hernandez (a & c)
It’s a race between the forces of good and evil! The first to reach the only Power Battery in the universe will control the destiny of all worlds! Can Hal Jordan and the crew of the Enterprise beat Sinestro and his allies to the ultimate prize?
FC • 32 pages • $3.99Last edited by Hypo; 12-20-2016, 10:27 PM.
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Maybe they will FINALLY make Kyle a GREEN Lantern again...like he SHOULD be.Comment
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I wouldn't be surprised if they go the phenomenally stupid route and make him Blue
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HAL JORDAN AND THE GREEN LANTERN CORPS #17
Written by ROBERT VENDITTI •
Art and cover by ETHAN VAN SCIVER
Variant cover by KEVIN NOWLAN •
Retailers: This issue will ship with two covers. Please see the order form for details.
“QUEST FOR THE BLUE LANTERNS” finale! As both the torchbearer of the Green Lantern Corps and the White Lantern of life, Kyle Rayner’s proved he can wield the entire emotional spectrum. But when forced to choose, which ring will he don—and which Corps will he join for the oncoming threats facing all of time and space?
On sale MARCH 22 • 32 pg, FC, $2.99 US • RATED T
leave him as the Whit Lantern DC
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He's been around that much longer. In fact the serious 2004 origin comic that DC put out of him by Joe Kelly, wasn't bad at all.Originally posted by Booster Beetle View Post
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They'll probably make him something crazy like a Red Lantern, or maybe finally he'll become a Star Sapphire (nah!).Comment
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Sounds about right.Originally posted by Booster Beetle View Post
Updated the solicits post with Planet of the Apes/Green Lantern #2 and Star Trek/Green Lantern #4. Threw the variants in there too since I didn't feel like making another post.Comment
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He'll be better off Ion. Don't get conned by these uber upgrades. They do nothing to help the character.Originally posted by IonFan View Post
leave him as the Whit Lantern DCComment
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Again, those POTA/GL variant covers are dipped in GOLD!!!!Comment
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HEYOriginally posted by Big Daddy Dave Targaryen I View Post
Kyle is and always should be.............
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IonFan says
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If he'd went blue four or five years ago it might've been cool before becoming the White Lantern. Now though it just seems like a downgrade. Make him Green again.
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I think Kyle Rayner lost about 60% of his usefulness as a character when Green Lantern: Rebirth happened, and about 30% of it before that because his character arc had basically finished and the writers weren't doing anything notable with him (he still has maybe about 10% usefulness left). He had lived up to the Green Lantern namesake, was a competent hero, and a luminary in the Justice League, and his love life with Jade was more or less stable, until the writers decided to destabilize it for drama. He fully completed his arc when he brought about the return of the Guardians and the Green Lantern Corps.
After that... well... everything else has just been worthlessly spinning wheels and trying to find something for him to do that will not somehow conflict with Hal Jordan. The situation is made even worse for him by the way the powers that be structured the status quo. With moving the focus back to Hal Jordan, there really hasn't been much place for Kyle Rayner, at least not that any of the writers have been able to find. Sure it sounds good on paper, "We can have everyone!" but I think it's being naive and overly idealistic to think you can do that and some of those characters won't suffer. Hal Jordan gets the choice cuts and everyone else is left with whatever scraps are left. And there aren't many scraps and A LOT of characters after them. I'm sure you're getting ready to tell me that Jessica and Simon are in the Justice League, but that likely won't last for a very long time, and it's still basically Hal Jordan who appears in the Justice League in other media.
My personal suggestion given this situation (again, not that anyone cares or would follow it) is to leave the character (Kyle Rayner) alone. If you really have nothing to say with him, and nothing interesting to do that isn't dumb, and your editors handicap him by making it so he can only go so far in the current status quo (he will likely never be the prime focus like he was in the '90s), just leave him alone. Sure, you will get regular cries of "Where's Kyle Rayner!?" Ignore them. I believe in shelving characters if there is really nothing to say with them in the current status quo. I think that is better than continuously throwing random crap at the wall with them and watching none of it stick. That's just damaging to the character and its credibility. Who knows, maybe somewhere down the line the time will be right to pull the character out again for a triumphant return or massive status quo shakeup, in which he can actually shine, instead of being Stooge #4 or 5, and a different hero name, power set, and costume every 2 years or so.
So, in short, I think DC does stuff with Kyle Rayner because they feel they have an obligation to use him, but they really have nothing to say with him in this status quo.
All that said, I don't know what DC has in store for Kyle Rayner, but given the track record, it's probably nothing that is particularly interesting for the character.Last edited by Star-Lantern; 12-21-2016, 05:29 AM.Comment
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I agree that it is often better to just not use a character for a while if you don't know what to do with them. Not doing so is how characters end up in armored costumes, changing names and powers, and being given something to do that a more competent writer has to undo later on. Kyle at least deserves better than what he's getting.
And Ion, shouldn't you be campaigning for Kyle to trade his ring for the Phantom Lantern ring? Uuuuuubeeeerrr upgrade!!!!Comment
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BUT if he had both it would be.............
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