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Version 2The close of the Sinestro Corps War in Green Lantern #25 introduced a future with seven Lantern Corps, each with a different philosophy based on the emotional color they channel. Above are the seven symbols as I recreated them, plus the ominous eighth corps in the background.
Green: The Color of Willpower, and by extension, Life
Yellow: The Color of Fear
Blue: The Color of Hope
Red: The Color of Anger
Violet: The Color of Love
Indigo: The Color of Compassion
Orange: The Color of Avarice
Black: The Color of Death
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If he's dead? He's dead. Black rings only wielded by the deceased makes him a good candidate at least to me. Plus, we all know the Titens need more angst...*puts up sarcasm flag*
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Well, Prime DID get blown up by the Monarch in the pages of Countdown, and he was backed by the power of 52 Captain Atoms. I hope Prime IS dead. But there's no evidence that the black rings can reach dead people in other universes, is all I'm saying.
No no, what they really need is more "Evil Titans" teams coming to get them, and to tie up some more loose ends from the Wolfman/Perez series, and maybe one more appearance by their evil future selves... *raising the sarcasm flag higher in protest*
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Wait...Prime? No. Not Prime. I'm tlaking about Superboy. Conner.
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Oh, him! Yeah, he'll probably come back to life along with everybody else. Him, Kal-L of Earth 2, all the dead Flashes, Ted Kord, Trickster, the Spoiler, Batman's parents, everybody. Maybe Batman will get one too, since they're gonna kill him pretty soon too.
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lol Sheah. But with DC they get really weird with their whole 'killing' you thing. With Bats he'll prolly just "kill" a part of himself and lay the dark brooding half of Batman to rest. Or not, maybe he'll get creamed like they showed in the JLA #0 Issue. *shrugs* The whole in blackest night set up for Conner would be too sweet to pass up. I could see the typical set up going on now...they confront the Black Lanterns and think Prime's among them...dun du duuun It's Conner FOOL! Then Cassie cries and Robin's like "I already hit that."
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instead of avarice you should maybe put greed. just a suggestion but nice work though.
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It's the same basic emotion.
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Damn! Don't ya'll think that the emergence of the RED Lantern happened fast, and its crazy that the power comes out of the mouth of its user. wonder how that will work out.
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Well, it has to happen fast. They only have until 2009 to introduce five new lantern corps in time for the Blackest Night.
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where did you find that out?
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Green Lantern #25, part 11 of the Sinestro Corps War storyarc. After the epilogue, they flat out told everybody what the Blackest Night was gonna be, and that it would happen in 2009.
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I know about the blackest night, but I think its kinda off because they didn't factor in the black lanterns. I was probably too hyponotized by the artwork to actually focus on what I was reading. I am kinda interested because it slowly seems as if Sinestro may actually have had good intentions in mind when considering the blackest night prophecy.
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I just found out about the Power Ring spectrum the other day, and my first thoughts were, "How would you symbolize the different emotions?" This does it wonderfully!
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I definitely think Kyle will cross into the Blue...
Awesome work Gaff!
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I wish they had a white lantern...just my thing. I love the artwork, but I really think you should change the text. Green is the color of willpower, not life. Sorry, it's just a pet peeve of mine. Other than that, great job.
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They were shown in Green Lantern #25, they're official DC canon.
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damn it i missed alot in dc...
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Yes. Did you know they killed Bart Allen and Conner Kent awhile ago? And the DC multiverse has been back over a year now.
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i have the infinite crisis hard cover and all four 52 soft cover... but didn't follow any sinestro corps...
also i read blue beetle monthly...
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Blue Beetle is cool. They're shoehorning him into Teen Titans these days.
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well right now he got his scarab yanked out of is back so i'm waiting...
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Did he? I mean, I saw Peacemaker tear out his own scarab during the Sinestro Corps War, but I must have missed Jaimie doing it.
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no the reach leader did it... you should check it out... it's written really good...
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nice but I have one complaint. You used cyan for the indigo symbol.
Also I remember hearing somewhere that black is for emotionless which is why it's for the dead.
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You're right about indigo. I did use the wrong color.
And yes, black is emotionless, that's why it represents the death of all other corps.
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it reminds me something that you would see in weird cults...
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OOOO!!!!! That's AWESOME!!! I want more info on this subject! awesome artwork by the way.
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Interesting... I miss reading comics but that won't stop me from buying, lol!!
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Hey man, I really like this. I hardly know anything about the Green Lantern universe, all I know is that the insignia represents one of the old fashioned barrel-shaped lanterns. Do the other seven insignias represent something too? I see in another comment that the black insignia represents a hand.
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The black one does represent a hand. It originally belonged to a villain called Black Hand. As for the other lantern symbols, I think a few of them are just varying adaptations of the lantern symbol. Yellow, blue, indigo, and red still look like lanterns to me, just different types. Violet is a star, naturally, since the star sapphire is the source of the violet light. Orange is kinda like a lantern, but in contrast to the indigo symbol, it's focused inwards, like hands grappling it greedily. If you were to go back and read Ganthet's description of the seven corps and their uniforms, you would see how fitting each new symbol is to the philosophies of each corps.
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Niiice two things:
1. Where is the black one? It looked sweet at the end of the arc.
2. For some reason I just see Superman wearing and been a Blue Lantern, don't know why, I just do. Or imagine, having one of the Earth GL be both a GL and BL!
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Look closer. The black hand logo takes up the background behind the seven symbols. You can see the outline of the triangle and the five digits.
It's easily understood as to why you might think of Superman in terms of the Blue Lanterns. Most DC heroes look at him as a symbol of hope as much as anything else. Look back at Kingdom Come, that's where it's most clear. As for a Green Lantern turning Blue, I suspect Kyle is the one most likely to throw in with Ganthet's new corps. Hope sustained him during his possession by Parallax, and he's been tight with Ganthet ever since he first took up the ring.
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ohhh now I see it, it's just too subtle to notice.
Yeah... that's exactly why I see Superman as a Blue Lantern. I hope he at least gets offered the ring sometime in the future. Kyle is a good option too, it would be cool to see as both a GL and BL!
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Sinestro Corp was an awesome arc and I can't wait to see how these other corps are introduced and developed. I have a feeling the Blue and Green Lanterns are likely to ally with each other and/or one of the "Earth four" will join the Blue Lanterns.
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Yeah, I think Kyle might be more at home with the Blue Lanterns too. I assume that's what we're both thinking about here. Hope sustained him during his possession at the hands of Parallax. And he's been pretty tight with Ganthet ever since he became a Green Lantern. He might take up with the Blue at some point.
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I thought green was willpower?
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It is. The Guardians equate willpower as the essence of sentient life.
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Well, can't say I agree with that view, but who am I to argue with suposedly omnipotent and omniscient smurfs.
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you forgot omnijerk smurfs. and i wouldn't call willpower an emotion, it more like "Drive"
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omnijerk? what does that even mean?
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i made it up
look at the guardians and you have the idea
(omnijerk = extremly power, really old, personality like a brick)
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Ganthet mentioned it when he revealed the prophecy of blackest night to the earth lanterns.
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Thanks.
Your sig, "I show not your face, but your heart's desire," why do you write it like that?
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Oh, It's what's written on the Mirror of Erised.
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