The Green Lantern Corps

201-223

I don't usually do pages this long on this site, but there's no logical breakpoint in the GLC run. They are one of the most fun, most interesting groups I've ever written, and all of them grow and interact with all the others, all the way through.

Somebody once objected, "But they all have the same power!" Dude, it is not about the power.

The success of this book led to Joe Staton's and my being given DC's yearly special event series, which I titled MILLENNIUM. It naturally had a strong GLC vibe.

By the end, GREEN LANTERN CORPS was such a massive hit that DC chose it to become the lead feature in the weekly title they'd been trying to launch for years, and they cancelled this book to funnel all the interest there. Joe and I were expected to continue in the new format, but the change from multi-part galactic epics to 7-page snippets was impossible, and we walked away.

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GREEN LANTERN EXTRAS

NOTES:

203: There is an extremely rare alternate cover with words on it; DC was experimenting.

206: Arisia changes from girl to woman while she and Hal are trapped together in a mine. Title: "In Deep."

208-210: One of the GLs chooses communism over capitalism - with two artistic masterpieces from Joe Staton.

211: The GLs get drunk and pass a night of truth or dare.

213: Evil Star Sapphire makes a hypnotized slave of angelic Arisia and forces her to kiss her boots, among other things. A reader's letter had one of my favorite lines: "Make no mistake, I oppose censorship. However..."

214-215: Joe took a break to work on MILLENNIUM, and fill-in Ian Gibson draws really cute girls, so...

217-219: New GLs, including a dead one, Driq - and the titles were "Inside Summer Skies," "Inside Some Other Skies," and "Inside Somatic Psyches."

223: Some artists - and you'll see this elsewhere in these galleries - return to a series they were identified with and are bored to be there. Gil Kane, a wonderful man and wonderful pro, was not one of these.