The New Gold Lantern is DC's Purest Ever (And The Worst)
Warning: contains spoilers for Justice League Vs. Legion of Super-Heroes #2
Kala Lour is the first and newest Gold Lantern, which is considered to be the «purest» of the Lantern Corps...but somehow he also manages to be the worst. Possessing a ring that can grant nearly unlimited power, Lour as the Gold Lantern has a lot of potential at his disposal. He can demonstrate endless capabilities through his self-control and sheer willpower. He even outclasses the Green Lantern Corps according to the Elders of Oa. Basically, he can do almost anything...and yet, it's something that he doesn't really want.
In Justice League vs. Legion of Super-Heroes #2 by Brian Michael Bendis, Kala Lour has found himself stranded in the past while the Justice League's members have been fast-forwarded to his time after the emergence of a Great Darkness Anomaly. Determined to find his way back, the reader is given a glimpse at his past to learn how he came to be the Gold Lantern. What is revealed is something that the reader wouldn't expect from a ring that's more powerful than the rings bestowed upon Hal Jordan and John Stewart.
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When Kala confronts the Elders of Oa, he actually declines the role of Gold Lantern. According to him, he just can't live with the reality that the Green Lantern Corps "at its core was...a military." To him, being a Lantern carries a lot of baggage that he can't deal with when he was taught to be better as a young child. So why exactly does this make him the «worst?» It doesn't. Nothing about Kala himself makes him the worst at anything. It actually indicates that the position of Gold Lantern is the worst because they're the ones with a ring that
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