The New Gold Lantern Finally Becomes DC's Most Important Mystery
Warning: contains spoilers for Justice League Annual #1!
DC Comic'sJustice League Annual #1 written by Brian Michael Bendis and drawn by Sanford Greene, is building a strange mystery around the futuristic Legion of Super-Heroes’ Gold Lantern. The Gold Lantern was already a source of intrigue as it was recently implied that he might not even be part of the Lantern Corps. In Legion of Super-Heroes #12, Brainiac-5 reveals that the Gold Lantern Ring isn’t a Lantern Ring at all, which led to several more questions, none of which have been answered as of yet. The Gold Lantern Ring is taking center stage yet again, now looking to be an item of utmost importance in a multi-dimensional, time-traveling conundrum.
DC's Gold Lantern goes by the name Kala Lour and hasn’t been around for very long. In fact, the hero only debuted in Legion of Super-Heroes #6 and has remained a point of intrigue ever since. Justice League Annual #1 looks to bring the mystery of the Gold Lantern back into the limelight with the introduction of Epoch, the Lord of Time. Epoch is a time traveler from the year 3786 who, through some error of his own, has become stuck in multiple points in time at varying ages. Epoch claims that there are only a few items left that can restore his split psyche, and one of them is the infamous Gold Lantern, an item that Epoch declares was the center of one of the greatest moments in the galaxy.
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Despite this information, Epoch makes one final request to the Justice League before he disappears. He asks them to destroy the Gold Lantern. Not only is the Gold Lantern now supposedly an item instrumental to one of the greatest moments in the galaxy’s
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