Green Lantern Body Paint Cosplay Gives Jessica Cruz the Spotlight DC Won't
Jessica Cruz gets the spotlight in an awesome new Green Lantern body paint cosplay, giving the Rebirth-era star some of the focus she's been lacking in the comics. Cruz and her Green Lantern Corps partner Simon Baz headlined DC's Green Lanterns: Rebirth, but as DC has refocused on classic Lantern Hal Jordan and awesome newcomer Sojourner «Jo» Mullein in the Infinite Frontier comic era, Cruz has appeared far less, relegated to a slow-burn storyline that has seen her join the villainous Sinestro Corps as a fear-inspiring yellow lantern.
Cruz was introduced in 2014's Justice League #30, originally becoming a knock-off version of Green Lantern when the alt-reality villain Power Ring was killed and the evil entity within his ring chose her as its new host. Thankfully, she was able to overcome the entity's influence, displaying a level of willpower that ironically made her eligible for a genuine Green Lantern power ring. Shockingly, Jessica was actually the first canonical human woman to become a Green Lantern, joining a list that already included a blue whale, a sentient mathematical equation, and Daffy Duck.
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In a new body paint cosplay, artist Melissa Croft depicts Jessica Cruz, including a VFX video recreating the Green Lantern's powers. An artist who often paints characters from TV, movies, games, and comics, Croft's breadth of focus takes in characters as mainstream as Wonder Woman to those as obscure as Superman's hypothetical daughter Lara Lane-Kent from the Injustice franchise. Croft recently shared her Jessica Cruz on Instagram, noting that it's the third time she's painted the character, with the first being seven years ago.
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