"The GLs are vanishing from the DCU..."

[Andrew NDB Shot Caller Find all posts View Profile Close Andrew NDB]

"... and that puts the Sinestro Corps in the perfect spot to take over."
-- Cullen Bunn on the post-"Convergence" status of Sinestro.

http://www.comicbookresources.com/ar...-the-lost-army

Oh jeeze.

And:

"The Green Lanterns are going to disappear from the DC Universe. "Green Lantern: The Lost Army" is their story. It's very literal. They are lost in another universe that they have never seen. It's a completely alien, alien universe. It's all-new for them. They have to learn to survive and figure out if they can make it home. They have to change the way they've done a lot of things. They're scattered through this universe, so they have to find each other, and come together again in order to make it through this ordeal."

Which characters are you planning on focusing on?

"Most of the Green Lanterns from the DC Universe are over there, but I am going to focus on a core group of characters: John Stewart, Kilowog, Arisia; some new characters that you haven't seen before, and some characters that you haven't seen in green for a while."

So Kyle Rayner and even Guy Gardner are going to be third stringers to John Stewart, Kilowog, and Arisia in a book where everyone is Star Trek: Voyagered to an alternate universe. Great. Just great. The fish out of water thing on a sci-fi level, same as DC tried (and failed) with "Legion Lost."

[Mister Ed Horse of a Different Color Find all posts View Profile Close Mister Ed]

Guess that explains why Hal won't be getting hunted down by the GLC...

[Andrew NDB Shot Caller Find all posts View Profile Close Andrew NDB]

Guess that explains why Hal won't be getting hunted down by the GLC...

And why he wouldn't be the leader of the GLs anymore. If there's no one to lead... he's free to go hang out on Earth in the Justice League in 3 different books now.

[Mister Ed Horse of a Different Color Find all posts View Profile Close Mister Ed]

And why he wouldn't be the leader of the GLs anymore. If there's no one to lead... he's free to go hang out on Earth in the Justice League in 3 different books now.

Though you'd think (unless it is part of some massive, secret Guardian plan that they actually let him in on for a change) he'd be spending a significant portion of his time trying to work out what happened to the GLC.

[Andrew NDB Shot Caller Find all posts View Profile Close Andrew NDB]

Though you'd think (unless it is part of some massive, secret Guardian plan that they actually let him in on for a change) he'd be spending a significant portion of his time trying to work out what happened to the GLC.

I'm sure Hal is using the JLA's combined resources to find the GLC, and it has nothing at all to do with WB wanting the JLA lineup to be the same as what's coming up in their new cinematic universe or brand consolidation.

[Sylent_Asassin Black Lantern Find all posts View Profile Close Sylent_Asassin]

So, a wormhole of some sort is going to swallow up Mogo with all of the Lanterns (except for Hal with Krona's glove) and whisk them away to another universe in search of a way home? This sounds just like Star Trek: Voyager.

"Most of the Green Lanterns from the DC Universe are over there, but I am going to focus on a core group of characters: John Stewart, Kilowog, Arisia; some new characters that you haven't seen before, and some characters that you haven't seen in green for a while."

Does that mean Sodom Yat, or Kyle and Guy returning to their ring slinging roots?

[Mister Ed Horse of a Different Color Find all posts View Profile Close Mister Ed]

I strongly suspect that anybody wearing a GL ring will be shunted from wherever they are to an equivalent location in the other universe (hence them being spread out over the universe and needing to find each other), so if Kyle or Guy are with them, I'd expect them to put on a green ring before the big event.

[JohnMc Senior Corps Member Find all posts View Profile Close JohnMc]

So Guy might be playing musical rings again? God, I wish he could be Warrior. Atleast he was handled by a talented writer that gave a damn about him then.

[Andrew NDB Shot Caller Find all posts View Profile Close Andrew NDB]

Just seems a bizarre angle that no one could possibly get aboard. And it seems like damned if you do, damned if you don't... if "Lost Army" fails sales-wise, DC will take that as "Oh, no more GL books." If "Lost Army" succeeds sales-wise... then what? Then the GLC stays trapped in the alternate universe?

What a terrible concept and dilemma.

[Mister Ed Horse of a Different Color Find all posts View Profile Close Mister Ed]

if "Lost Army" fails sales-wise, DC will take that as "Oh, no more GL books."

Only if they already felt the current sales of GLC were too low to sustain a book. If Lost Army sells crap compared to the current series, I imagine the message would be "Guess people don't like it as much when we strand the GLC in another universe".

Personally, I suspect this is designed as a temporary measure, with plans already in place to bring them back. Now, if it sells like gangbusters, far outstripping the current series, they might put those plans on hold and milk it for as long as they can, but I doubt they are going into this without a plan to bring the GLC back to the home universe down the road.

[Andrew NDB Shot Caller Find all posts View Profile Close Andrew NDB]

Even still... "Lost Army" is by itself, by its own nature an Event. An Event that will not end until its cancellation or their return to the normal universe... which when/if that happens, would be another Event. So after years of not getting enough "smaller" stories focused on John, Guy, and Kyle as characters amid the nonstop Event rubbish we've had, they're actively setting out from the gate to make things even worse?

This is beyond words.

[Mister Ed Horse of a Different Color Find all posts View Profile Close Mister Ed]

My biggest beef will be if they have ongoing issues with "How will we charge our rings?" If they want to essentially just do space stories with the GLC without having to have them entangled with whatever is going on in the main universe, that's one thing. But if the whole series is going to have them having to, at a fundamental level, change into something besides the GLC, because they can't get a ring charge...that'll get old fast, IMHO.

[Booster Beetle Will break before he bends Find all posts View Profile Close Booster Beetle]

This is somehow Geoff Johns' fault!!

[Trey Strain Guardian of the Universe Find all posts View Profile Close Trey Strain]

You guys need to get behind me to write it. Don't leave it in their hands. More scripts that I'll post soon will show you why. Guy third string? Nope, he'll be the one true Green Lantern, just as he's said. And no other GLs will get dumped on either. No matter who your favorite GL is, you'll say I've done right by him. And even one extra one...

[Andrew NDB Shot Caller Find all posts View Profile Close Andrew NDB]

This is somehow Geoff Johns' fault!!

Wouldn't doubt it for a second. After all, what does this to for Hal and Sinestro (possibly even Simon Baz, if he is able to dodge the exile) at the end of the day?

It makes them more sthpecial. And we know he's always wanted that, even though he hates writing actual character stories about them (or anybody else, for that matter, except maybe Stargirl).