Green Lantern: DC Busts a Popular Myth About the Most Powerful Lantern
Warning: contains Spoilers for Dark Crisis #2!
Though he's been shown time and time again to be one of the most powerful Green Lanterns of all time, one popular myth still permeates Kyle Rayner's time in the Green Lantern Corps. With Rayner's recent inclusion in the Dark Crisis event, DC shows just how untrue this notion truly is.
Kyle Rayner was once a struggling comic book artist before being gifted the last Green Lantern ring by Ganthet, the last Guardian to survive Hal Jordan's attack on Oa during his ascendancy as Parallax. After holding down the fort as the final Green Lantern, Rayner later went on to host Ion, the living embodiment of willpower. Rayner also notably served as the supremely powerful White Lantern, displaying a unique mastery of all 7 elements of the emotional spectrum. Despite all of these notable feats of strength and power, Kyle still often gets labeled as an odd man out among the Green Lantern Corps. Portrayed as more empathetic and less disciplined than many of his allies, Kyle's role as an artist highlights that he hails from a much different background than his fellow Green Lanterns, who have often served in the armed forces prior to their cosmic roles.
Related: The Green Lantern Corps Just Officially Replaced DC's Justice League
Dark Crisis #2 by Joshua Williamson and Daniel Sampere allows Kyle Rayner the chance to shed this misconception once and for all. Near the issue's end, Rayner busts out of a prison in space before Hal Jordan and Jo Mullein bring him to join a group of Lanterns ready to face DC's latest crisis. Though a brief scene in an already action-packed comic, Rayner's daring escape proves that he's every bit the action hero as his Green Lantern Corps allies, as he carries out an
Read more on screenrant.com
