Sinestro & The Yellow Ring in the Comic Books Hal Jordan, of course, was resurrected, Kilowog was resurrected, the Guardians were resurrected, the Green Lantern Corps was reinstated, and Parallax was defeated, although he has returned from time to time, most prominently in the excellent 2006 crossover The Sinestro Corps Wars. In Rebirth, we learned that Parallax influenced Hal Jordan’s emotions and actions for years and was the true cause of Hal’s megalomania and genocidal ways (not to mention his graying temples). Parallax was the reason for the centuries-long “yellow impurity” that had rendered Green Lantern rings useless against anything yellow. Rather, Parallax was a super powerful space insect and the "Fear Entity" – the living embodiment of fear that represents the yellow energy that powers Sinestro’s ring – that had long ago been imprisoned inside the Battery. This will be the first chance a much larger audience will get to explore who these Lanterns are, instead of just what their rings do.Enter 2004, Geoff Johns, and the wildly successful Green Lantern: Rebirth, where we learned that Parallax wasn’t just a cool name Hal Jordan came up with once he consumed the power of Oa’s Battery. It’s an opportunity to really get to know John Stewart and Hal Jordan, in a way that perhaps only comic book fans could in the past. So what we might see is a pair of Lanterns, not necessarily green, getting into a gritty case, and really exploring the “policing” side of their characters, instead of just getting into big CGI battles. Old-school Green Lantern fans might not like this, but it could reinvent the character at a time when the DCU is reinventing itself. The Earth One comic has a lot to do with space, so Lanterns might bring us an entirely new perspective on what we thought we knew about the Lantern Corps. This is an interesting choice given that Green Lanterns are almost always seen flying through space and fighting aliens. Second, James Gunn promised to take these traditionally interplanetary heroes and tell their stories on a terrestrial level. Related: DCU: How The Flash Could Change the Future of the DCU Although Alan Scott was the first Green Lantern, and Kyle Rayner might have been the strongest Green Lantern, John Stewart is still a fan favorite for a lot of people. Carr being filmed, and then cut, from Zack Snyder’s Justice League. John Stewart is one of DC Comic’s proudest heroes, and while he’s been well-represented in a lot of animation, this may be the first time we get to see an actor play Green Lantern in live-action - barring Wayne T. DC was going to name him “Lincoln Washington” but artist Neal Adams resisted giving his hero a moniker that had historically been a slave name. His name “John Stewart” was seen as a powerful statement for Black equality at the time. Although Stewart wouldn’t become a Green Lantern until more than a decade later, he was DC’s first major recurring Black character. Black Lightning was the first African-American hero with his own comic book, but John Stewart’s character was introduced years before him. Stewart is also one of DC’s first Black superheroes. Related: DCU's The Brave and the Bold: What Kind of Batman Will We See?
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