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What If the Green Lantern Corps Never Existed? Grant Morrison and Xermanico Rewrite DC History in Green Lantern: Blackstars

Published Wed, 14 Aug 2019 09:00:42 -0500

by Rich Johnston

Last updated Fri, 16 Aug 2019 07:10:27 -0500

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What if the Green Lantern Corps never existed? That's the new reality of the DC Universe in Green Lantern: Blackstars, a mini-series by Grant Morrison and Xermanico spinning out of Morrison and Liam Sharp's The Green Lantern, as it prepares to take a small break between its two year-long seasons.

And it suggests that The Green Lantern #12 out in October will see Hal Jordan having rewritten DC History to wipe out the Green Lanterns ever having existed in the first place.

Across the DC universe, come November 2019, once-familiar faces wielding Lantern power rings now wear a different uniform and enforce a new type of galactic law. The Green Lantern Corps is dead—long live the Blackstars in a new three-issue miniseries, Green Lantern: Blackstars, by Grant Morrison and Xermanico

Who are the Blackstars? What are they? Answers will be revealed as the unstoppable Blackstars set their sights on the demons of Ysmault, Mongul…and a tiny, backwater planet called Earth in Green Lantern: Blackstars #1. Paving the way for more exciting Green Lantern adventures in 2020, a dangerous new chapter of the Green Lantern mythology starts on November 6^th.

"Oa is the skeleton-paved haunt of vengeful demons," teases Morrison on the new project, "And the Blackstars—a sinister cult of universal peace and harmony, involving surrender to the will of the insidious and/or possibly illuminated Controller Mu—are in the process of subjugating the universe to their creed."

Following the catastrophic events of The Green Lantern #12 by Grant Morrison and Liam Sharp, scheduled to hit shelves October 2^nd, 2019, no Green Lanterns can be found patrolling their space sectors…not a single power ring lights the darkness! What happens in the finale of Morrison and Sharp's incredible year-long run is shrouded in mystery, but the Green Lantern Corps is no more! Scratch that—they never existed in the first place. What has Hal Jordan done?

"Jordan's one of the Blackstars' primary operatives," continues Morrison. "He's central, although the Cosmic Vampire Countess Belzebeth vies with him for control of the narrative in Blackstars. Hal Jordan is the kind of man who will excel in any situation, so naturally he's an elite Blackstar in this altered-continuity."

Green Lantern: Blackstars #1, written by Grant Morrison with art by Xermanico, debuts in comic book stores and online retailers on Wednesday, November 6^th with the first of three triptych covers by Liam Sharp and a variant cover by Darick Robertson.