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Green Lantern by Geoff Johns
Green Lantern by Geoff Johns, Book Four
The New York Times bestselling and critically acclaimed series Green Lantern written by Geoff Johns continues!
Setting the stage for the Green Lanterns' role in FINAL CRISIS comes Part 1 of "The Alpha Lanterns." Who are the Alpha-Lanterns? What bizarre cosmic surgery have they undergone? And how will they affect the future of the Green Lantern Corps? In the aftermath of the Sinestro Corps War, the Green Lanterns are undergoing an unprecedented reconstruction and reinvention, and the controversial Alpha-Lantern project is in full effect. Meanwhile, with Sinestro's true machinations for his war revealed to Earth's prime Green Lanterns, Hal Jordan and John Stewart, debate rages across Oa as lines are drawn and crossed, new bonds are formed, and old ones broken.
The prelude to "The Blackest Night" also begins here! They come from a place of great anger and hatred. They are the Red Lanterns and they will have their revenge against the greatest Green Lantern -- Sinestro. That is, unless the Guardians have theirs first.
Collects Final Crisis: Rage of the Red Lanterns #1, Green Lantern #26-38.
Setting the stage for the Green Lanterns' role in FINAL CRISIS comes Part 1 of "The Alpha Lanterns." Who are the Alpha-Lanterns? What bizarre cosmic surgery have they undergone? And how will they affect the future of the Green Lantern Corps? In the aftermath of the Sinestro Corps War, the Green Lanterns are undergoing an unprecedented reconstruction and reinvention, and the controversial Alpha-Lantern project is in full effect. Meanwhile, with Sinestro's true machinations for his war revealed to Earth's prime Green Lanterns, Hal Jordan and John Stewart, debate rages across Oa as lines are drawn and crossed, new bonds are formed, and old ones broken.
The prelude to "The Blackest Night" also begins here! They come from a place of great anger and hatred. They are the Red Lanterns and they will have their revenge against the greatest Green Lantern -- Sinestro. That is, unless the Guardians have theirs first.
Collects Final Crisis: Rage of the Red Lanterns #1, Green Lantern #26-38.
352 pages, Paperback
Published December 29, 2020
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About the author
Geoff Johns
2,701 books2,410 followersGeoff Johns originally hails from Detroit, Michigan. He attended Michigan State University, where he earned a degree in Media Arts and Film. He moved to Los Angeles in the late 1990s in search of work within the film industry. Through perseverance, Geoff ended up as the assistant to Richard Donner, working on Conspiracy Theory and Lethal Weapon 4. During that time, he also began his comics career writing Stars and S.T.R.I.P.E. and JSA (co-written with David S. Goyer) for DC Comics. He worked with Richard Donner for four years, leaving the company to pursue writing full-time.
His first comics assignments led to a critically acclaimed five-year run on the The Flash. Since then, he has quickly become one of the most popular and prolific comics writers today, working on such titles including a highly successful re-imagining of Green Lantern, Action Comics (co-written with Richard Donner), Teen Titans, Justice Society of America, Infinite Crisis and the experimental breakout hit series 52 for DC with Grant Morrison, Greg Rucka and Mark Waid. Geoff received the Wizard Fan Award for Breakout Talent of 2002 and Writer of the Year for 2005, 2006, 2007, and 2008 as well as the CBG Writer of the Year 2003 thru 2005, 2007 and CBG Best Comic Book Series for JSA 2001 thru 2005. Geoff also developed BLADE: THE SERIES with David S. Goyer, as well as penned the acclaimed “Legion” episode of SMALLVILLE. He also served as staff writer for the fourth season of ROBOT CHICKEN.
Geoff recently became a New York Times Bestselling author with the graphic novel Superman: Brainiac with art by Gary Frank.
His first comics assignments led to a critically acclaimed five-year run on the The Flash. Since then, he has quickly become one of the most popular and prolific comics writers today, working on such titles including a highly successful re-imagining of Green Lantern, Action Comics (co-written with Richard Donner), Teen Titans, Justice Society of America, Infinite Crisis and the experimental breakout hit series 52 for DC with Grant Morrison, Greg Rucka and Mark Waid. Geoff received the Wizard Fan Award for Breakout Talent of 2002 and Writer of the Year for 2005, 2006, 2007, and 2008 as well as the CBG Writer of the Year 2003 thru 2005, 2007 and CBG Best Comic Book Series for JSA 2001 thru 2005. Geoff also developed BLADE: THE SERIES with David S. Goyer, as well as penned the acclaimed “Legion” episode of SMALLVILLE. He also served as staff writer for the fourth season of ROBOT CHICKEN.
Geoff recently became a New York Times Bestselling author with the graphic novel Superman: Brainiac with art by Gary Frank.
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June 6, 2021
Other than Secret history it was great. Secret history was just a huge backstory for all the new people.
February 26, 2025
Red Lanterns!! 😍😍😍
December 31, 2020
Im really digging this. We have so much going on right now with Green, yellow, red, blue and even a small glimpse of violet lanterns. I guess this is all leading up to the massive event
December 3, 2025
If I started with this volume, it would have been a different journey for me with the Green Lantern, volume 4 comes after the chaotic events of the previous volumes and smooths the way with a trip back to the origins and the back story of the Hal's joining the corpse.
This book was a peace offering for me to close the chapters of Geoff Johns' Lantern with the openness of mind to read more into it, and actually I happen to have Blackest Night and Brightest Day on my shelf, so I think I'll go ahead and dive into them next.
MiM
This book was a peace offering for me to close the chapters of Geoff Johns' Lantern with the openness of mind to read more into it, and actually I happen to have Blackest Night and Brightest Day on my shelf, so I think I'll go ahead and dive into them next.
MiM
May 16, 2021
Sinestro War: Aftermath and Secret Origin, the first two-thirds of this collection, were both pretty uninteresting, but the final Rage of the Red Lanterns arc was all right.
Ends not on a cliffhanger, exactly, but set up for the next big thing, which I think, is Blackest Night.
Ends not on a cliffhanger, exactly, but set up for the next big thing, which I think, is Blackest Night.
November 11, 2025
It’s really hard, for me, not to feel awe at what Geoff Johns did with Green Lantern. By synthesizing and pushing forward what had been done before, he revolutionized the mythos, expanding it exponentially. He also created a very tall order, and no one has really been up to the task of accepting the challenge of succeeding it. Johns of all people certainly knew it was possible, since he’s the one who did it with the Flash, after Mark Waid (and eventually Williamson did it after him).
In this collection we see the building blocks start to tower, with the Alpha Lanterns, the Red Lanterns, and my personal favorite, the Blue Lanterns with Saint Walker (if anything, the later Indigo Tribe arc stole their thunder). It’s the very rare example (other than in Wonder Woman comics) where superheroes are allowed to consider some alternate approach to their calling, where peace is understood as a real possibility.
And there’s the “Secret Origin” arc, a double entendre, since it’s Johns embedding at the start of Hal Jordan’s career the war of light to come. It’s awful in that it leaves you wanting to see Johns handle the “golden age” of Green Lantern stories, even tackling more of Abin Sur and Sinestro, which never happened, but at least the collection as a whole foreshadows Sinestro’s moment of redemption late in Johns’ run, when at last he wears a Green Lantern ring again…
All this takes the focus away from ordinary storytelling, makes it very insular, gives it an epic feel. And it’s probably better than the Blackest Night story it points toward (a mistake Johns corrects when he makes Barry Allen inexorably the heart of Flashpoint, which every adaptation has successfully followed, and why there’s been three adaptations to date). And infinitely glorious. If you’re to read only one collection of Johns’ Green Lantern, this would actually suffice.
But then you wouldn’t really get to enjoy Larfleeze!
In this collection we see the building blocks start to tower, with the Alpha Lanterns, the Red Lanterns, and my personal favorite, the Blue Lanterns with Saint Walker (if anything, the later Indigo Tribe arc stole their thunder). It’s the very rare example (other than in Wonder Woman comics) where superheroes are allowed to consider some alternate approach to their calling, where peace is understood as a real possibility.
And there’s the “Secret Origin” arc, a double entendre, since it’s Johns embedding at the start of Hal Jordan’s career the war of light to come. It’s awful in that it leaves you wanting to see Johns handle the “golden age” of Green Lantern stories, even tackling more of Abin Sur and Sinestro, which never happened, but at least the collection as a whole foreshadows Sinestro’s moment of redemption late in Johns’ run, when at last he wears a Green Lantern ring again…
All this takes the focus away from ordinary storytelling, makes it very insular, gives it an epic feel. And it’s probably better than the Blackest Night story it points toward (a mistake Johns corrects when he makes Barry Allen inexorably the heart of Flashpoint, which every adaptation has successfully followed, and why there’s been three adaptations to date). And infinitely glorious. If you’re to read only one collection of Johns’ Green Lantern, this would actually suffice.
But then you wouldn’t really get to enjoy Larfleeze!
December 29, 2022
After years of hearing great things about this run, I decided I’d better finally check it out. I’d intended to read Johns’ run and then BLACKEST NIGHT… but that ain’t gonna happen. Nothing about any of this entire run has made me excited to read the next issue, and life is too short to continue reading comics I don’t like.
December 29, 2023
Still really enjoying this series, but I'm not going to lie. I'm looking forward to more angry red kitty.
October 15, 2024
Thats how it ends ?? How is there not a collected volume 5??
August 15, 2025
Geoff is goated
August 20, 2025
i’m having a blast
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October 4, 2025Ooooh shits starting to get crazy… It’s kinda crazy and complicated but I do love how the other color lantern corps are starting to form and show up
May 9, 2023
The war against fear is over. Let the war of light begin!
We get a lot of new lantern enemies and allies here as a war between light begins. Before there was only the green will and yellow fear, now pink love, red rage, and blue hope all enter the stage, each with a new lantern corps prompted by the Sinestro Corps War. It was fun seeing each of these new factions formed and how they effect the larger mythos and are directly tied to Hal's backstory (which we also get here). Loved seeing how the different lantern colors had different powers directly tied to their emotional spectrum, especially when the blue and red entered the stage. Adds a whole new level of puzzle solving to the action here!
Also loved how each villain is boiled down to a single emotion, but are still given so much depth. Atrocitus is essentially just a raging red dude, but he has a legit reason for his strong hatred. The Star Sapphire loves, but has a twisted view of it that needs corrected by it's host. The Alpha Lanterns are, oddly enough, fully motivated by fear. Despite the sympathetic bad guys, they are all so evil, which I love. See, we can still have fully evil baddies that are complex characters!
Yet the highlight was easily Hal's origin story. It beautifully tied into the ongoing story, giving us both Sinestro and Atrocitus's backstories as well, creating a much more impactful pay off in the Rage of the Red Lanterns story. There was a lot foreshadowing layered into this story that hindsight easily helped, but made it all the more awesome. Definitely the way to do a prequel right. Plus it was fun seeing Hal and Sinestro as best buds.
In short, the world gets a lot more complicated, but also a ton more fun!
We get a lot of new lantern enemies and allies here as a war between light begins. Before there was only the green will and yellow fear, now pink love, red rage, and blue hope all enter the stage, each with a new lantern corps prompted by the Sinestro Corps War. It was fun seeing each of these new factions formed and how they effect the larger mythos and are directly tied to Hal's backstory (which we also get here). Loved seeing how the different lantern colors had different powers directly tied to their emotional spectrum, especially when the blue and red entered the stage. Adds a whole new level of puzzle solving to the action here!
Also loved how each villain is boiled down to a single emotion, but are still given so much depth. Atrocitus is essentially just a raging red dude, but he has a legit reason for his strong hatred. The Star Sapphire loves, but has a twisted view of it that needs corrected by it's host. The Alpha Lanterns are, oddly enough, fully motivated by fear. Despite the sympathetic bad guys, they are all so evil, which I love. See, we can still have fully evil baddies that are complex characters!
Yet the highlight was easily Hal's origin story. It beautifully tied into the ongoing story, giving us both Sinestro and Atrocitus's backstories as well, creating a much more impactful pay off in the Rage of the Red Lanterns story. There was a lot foreshadowing layered into this story that hindsight easily helped, but made it all the more awesome. Definitely the way to do a prequel right. Plus it was fun seeing Hal and Sinestro as best buds.
In short, the world gets a lot more complicated, but also a ton more fun!
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