This time, I will focus on a favorite hero of mine who is hitting issue #600 in March!
THE GREEN LANTERN IS AGAIN SHINING BRIGHTLY!
Coming in March of 2026, Green Lantern’s monthly comics will number at 33, but when you add up all the previous issues featuring GL over the years, that issue will reach #600, so DC is celebrating!
Here’s the description of that book:
“In this special, oversize 600th issue, Hal Jordan will be tested as never before…and a new Lantern stands poised to step in should he fail. Hal embarks on a mysterious mission while Kyle Rayner finally moves back to Los Angeles and again takes up the mantle of Green Lantern of Earth. Join Kyle as he finds a job, navigates traffic, and chases down escaped villains from Oa! All this, plus a host of legendary guest artists and writers from Lanterns past, and an answer to the question posed to Star Sapphire in the last issue…”
I’m a huge fan of Jeremy Adams, who has been bringing Green Lantern back to the forefront in the DCU (not to mention his great writing on Aquaman). Jeremy will be writing in that landmark issue as well as Ron Marz, Xermanico, and Darryl Banks, and word on the always-correct Internet that Kyle Rayner might actually again be the main ringbearer in that comic—at least, for a while! And Guy Gardner is getting some new powers as well, and he’s on a mission!
Jeremy has been making Hal into the hero he truly should have been over the years, and he’s even been bringing Carol Ferris some well-deserved attention as she once again is Star Sapphire.
It’s been great reading, and I am anxious to see what he has in store after this 600th book.
IT’S BEEN A ROUGH ROAD FOR HAL JORDAN
I hate to reminisce about the bad times, but I have to say, poor Hal Jordan has really been through the ringer over the decades!
I mean, he was a galactic policeman who patrolled the universe (at least Earth’s sector) who had to deal with a really bad weakness—the color yellow. I always used to wonder how the color green was okay with that, but isn’t yellow a part of the color green? How did that actually work?
Then, space heroes had fallen out of vogue, so Hal turned into a toy salesman. Ugh. After that, he became a serious bad guy, Parallax. Well, that got cleaned up, but not before Hal ended up being the Spectre for a while. The poor guy just couldn’t catch a break there!
There was even an online group called HEAT (Hal’s Emerald Advance Team) that took out full-page ads and did other things to bring Hal back into the spotlight. My twin brother used to be a part of that, and he devoted a lot of time to making Hal’s future a brighter one.
Luckily, DC needed a space hero eventually, and so Hal was once again made a ringwielder, and he has really been taking on the biggest and baddest of the challenges (anyone else remember the great Geoff Johns days with the rainbow colors of Lanterns we met then?), and Hal has been kicking backside and taking names since Mr. Adams took over the writing duties for the Green Lantern.
Then, too, Jeremy has been exploring the Hal/Carol relationship, and it’s been just as much fun as the swashbuckling times. I always thought those two really did make a great couple, and to see them sharing ring time as well as relationship time has been quite a satisfying time for me.
I understand that DC is looking to shake things up in their books for a while, so I am not surprised that Jeremy is going to move the limelight to Kyle Rayner, admittedly not one of my favorite in the GL Corp. So, we will see Kyle be the main Green Lantern in the title—at least, for a time.
MORE SCIENCE FICTION, PLEASE?
One of the things I truly loved about the galactic group that is the Green Lantern Corps is the science fiction aspects of the members. Some were the strangest aliens I had ever seen. Then, too, there was actually a DEAD Green Lantern as well as a squirrel Green Lantern.
I was never sure just what kind of GL we were going to meet next! And I really liked that. Superheroes have been often encountering the weirdest aliens of the universe in their days, so it was nice to see some aliens who were truly good guys and gals!
I’m happy that Morgan Hampton is writing the new Green Lantern Corps monthly title, so I’m enjoying seeing the “other” GLs get their chances to shine. Great stuff!
Yes, there have been a lot of big celebrations in 2025, and I bet there will be even more in 2026! The good news is that we actually have events to celebrate, so I’m happy to focus on the ones I feel really deserve our attention, just like Green Lantern.
Stay tuned in 2026 for the limelight to fall on even more excellent comics characters, be they heroes or villains. I’m seriously looking forward to that already!
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