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Love Conquers All, And Not Just With Violet Light

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In this picture, I draw my favorite Green Lantern couples, plus two characters that I only paired together for the hell of it.

I mainly like the Green Lantern franchise because the mere idea of an intergalactic police squad armed with rings that can create whatever they think of is just indescribably awesome. I also liked a lot of the pathos used in the stories, like the sole Orange Lantern Larfleeze missing his family in his Christmas Special and Hal Jordan lamenting how his dad, Abin Sur, and Coast City had to die in his path of being a hero. Quite a few of the couples met my approval as well, which brings us this.

Hal Jordan and Carol Ferris-

Hal Jordan is arguably the most well-known member of the Green Lantern Corps. I first heard of him from reruns of Challenge from the Super Friends that I watched on Cartoon Network when I was really young, but I never realized he existed until I watched DVDs of the show that my mother bought (until then, I only remembered Bizarro and Solomon Grundy from that cartoon).

Hal's origin was that he saw his father die in a plane crash and it motivated him to become a pilot and make his old man proud. He became a test pilot for Ferris Aircrafts and was then chosen by the dying Green Lantern Abin Sur so that he could succeed him as Green Lantern of Sector 2814.

Hal Jordan, of course, had the infamous yellow weakness where his ring was useless against anyone or anything colored yellow. A laughable weakness, but they had to do something to keep Green Lantern from being too powerful! More modern stories establish that experienced Lanterns have no problem with yellow objects, so the yellow weakness is now only a problem to rookie Green Lanterns.

Carol Ferris is a love interest to Hal Jordan, but is also a member of the Star Sapphire Corps, a Corps armed with violet light powered by love. She is similar to the Batman villain Catwoman because she has been an adversary to Hal Jordan while also being his love interest. Both Carol Ferris and Catwoman are also somewhat sympathetic and in the long run, it is very hard to consider them actual villains. Anti-heroines would be a more accurate description.

Guy Gardner and Ice-

Abin Sur's power ring actually found two worthy successors: Hal Jordan and Guy Gardner. Hal was chosen first because he was closer to the area where Abin Sur crashed to Earth. When Hal found out about Guy, he made him his backup Lantern. He's now an Honor Guard, a Lantern not bound to a Sector. Guy's attitude changed constantly, but he usually tends to be cocky and arrogant. I don't remember what introduced me to him.

Ice's real name is Tora Olafsdotter and her powers were exactly what her name would imply. She had ice powers and was ironically partners with Beatriz Bonilla DaCosta, better known by her name Fire. I just don't get why Fire uses green fire. Maybe so Marvel wouldn't sue over her resemblance to Johnny Storm and Jim Hammond? Who knows?

Guy and Ice being a couple is actually news to me. I never found out until I purchased the Blackest Night TPB on my DC Comics app.

John Stewart and Katma Tui-

John Stewart tends to be the more recognizable Green Lantern, especially to people who only knew Green Lantern from Bruce Timm's Justice League cartoons. I did learn of John from those same cartoons, and I do like him, but I just like Hal Jordan better.

John became a member of the Green Lantern Corps because Guy once fell into a coma and someone else had to be Hal's backup Lantern.  Even after Guy Gardner recovered, John Stewart remained an ally to Hal Jordan.

While DCAU John Stewart hooked up with Hawkgirl, John actually loved and married fellow Green Lantern Katma Tui in the comics. I just wish I knew the proper pronunciation of her name. I used to pronounce it Katma Two-Ee, but I have recently pondered if the correct way to pronounce her name is Katma Twee.

Katma Tui comes from Korugar, the same home planet as prominent Green Lantern nemesis Sinestro, who was banished to the anti-matter universe of Qward for using his Green Lantern power ring to conquer his home planet. Sadly, her holy matrimony with John came to an end when Carol Ferris killed her.

Alan Scott and Harlequin-

Alan Scott was the very first Green Lantern introduced in the 1940's in All-American Comics. He was not really a member of the Corps, but his origin was retconned so that he had a vague connection to the Green Lantern Corps, and he also had a big influence on the human members. I do not remember where I first heard of him.

Alan's origin, at least before the New 52, was that a green meteor landed to earth centuries ago and was eventually carved into the shape of a lantern. Alan Scott somehow obtained the lantern and brought it with him on a train. A train crash killed all of the passengers except Scott, who was protected by the lantern's magic. He then chipped off a piece of the lantern and made it into a ring that, like a Lantern Corps power ring, made constructs of whatever he thought of. More modern retellings of his origins had the retcon that the meteor was actually a fragment of the Starheart, a rock that the Guardians of the Universe trapped all the excess magic in.

Alan Scott's ring worked fine on yellow objects, but was powerless against wood. This made the swamp zombie Solomon Grundy a formidable enemy to Alan, because his ring was unable to affect the plant matter inside Grundy's body.

Harlequin, not to be confused with Harley Quinn, was one of Alan Scott's enemies. Her real name was Molly Mayne and she eventually married Alan Scott. They had two children: Jennifer Lynn-Haden, who was born with the ability to make green constructs like her father's ring and took on the name Jade, and Todd Rice, who was openly gay and had shadow manipulation powers and went by Obsidian.

In The New 52, Alan Scott and the other Golden Age heroes existed in a separate universe from the modern heroes, though their continuity had its own versions of Superman, Batman, and Wonder Woman. Their reality was known as Earth-2 and had all of the Golden Age heroes reimagined as younger people with modified origins who now passed the torch from the Dark Knight, the Man of Steel, and the Amazon Princess instead of the other way around.

Alan Scott was now a gay man who's lover Sam was killed by Darkseid's Parademons. The Green, a powerful energy representing plants and nature, made Alan Scott its champion and made his engagement ring for Sam a way to channel his new powers of creating constructs. His enemy Solomon Grundy was now a deputy of the Gray, an evil counterpart to the Green that represented death and decay. I have read that the reason why New 52 Alan Scott is gay was because the guys who reimagined him for DC's shoddy reboot felt bad for Obsidian and thought that making Alan gay would be the best way to make up for Obsidian's erasure from history.

For fear of bashing from my watchers, I must explain that I am not a homophobe. If I was, Obsidian and Bunker would not be in this picture. As a matter of fact, I loathe every form of bigotry with every fiber of my being.

Kyle Rayner and Jade-

Kyle Rayner was the first Green Lantern I ever heard of. I was introduced to him from watching his episode in Superman: The Animated Series, which also gave him Hal Jordan's origin.

Kyle was first introduced in the comics during the Emerald Twilight storyline, where Hal Jordan became the villain Parallax because the Guardians wouldn't let him use his ring to resurrect Coast City after Mongul and Cyborg Superman destroyed it. Hal was so enraged that he nearly destroyed the Green Lantern Corps and he got killed, with Parallax being revealed to actually be the yellow entity of fear who possessed Jordan.

The Guardian Ganthet then gave the last remaining Green Lantern ring to Kyle Rayner, a young artist who grew up admiring the heroics of Superman and Batman. Kyle Rayner was given the duty to rebuild the Green Lantern Corps. Hal Jordan spent some time as a host for the Spectre, but was eventually resurrected and given back membership to the Green Lantern Corps in the Rebirth storyline.

Fans did not like Kyle when he first appeared, but he was Rescued From The Scrappy Heap when he started to mature and when Captain Atom foe Major Force killed his girlfriend and stuffed her in the fridge.

In the New 52, Kyle ended up being selected by rings from the other six Lantern Corps. After mastering all seven colors of the emotional spectrum, he became a White Lantern. Kyle's status as a White Lantern is one of the few things I like about the New 52. I just can't forgive Supes and Wondy being an item, Wally West's deletion from history, Prankster becoming Nightwing's enemy and having a ridiculous redesign, and Dan DiDio thinking that superheroes are only good when they have crappy lives where horrible things happen to them 24/7. And those are only a small part of the things about the New 52 that bug me.

Jade became a member of the Green Lantern Corps and a new love interest to Rayner, but she died. Then she came back as a Black Lantern during the Blackest Night storyline. Fortunately, it ended with the White Entity resurrecting her for real, and she resumed her relationship with Rayner, unless there's something that happened between them after that that I don't know about.

For obvious reasons, Jade does not exist in The New 52. It's also funny that she has green hair and skin. It's almost like DC made her as their answer to Marvel's She-Hulk! I do happen to like both of those characters.

Unfortunately, Simon Baz doesn't have a love interest yet, so I had no reason to draw him here. While he is part of the New 52, he is a new character, so I don't really have a reason to dislike him. I consider it shallow to dislike characters just because they are new.

Obsidian and Bunker-

Not really a couple. I just paired them together because while they are gay, they don't have an official love interest as far as I know. I believe Obsidian used to have a boyfriend, but he died. Feel free to correct me. Just because I'm a hardcore DC fan doesn't mean I know everything about the DC Universe. Or any version of it, as the case may be.

As I've said before, Obsidian is Alan Scott's openly gay son. He got along well with his sister Jade. I first learned of his existence from DK Publishing's

Bunker, or as I'd like to call him "The only thing Scott Lobdell did right with his run of the Teen Titans", was introduced in the New 52 as one of the members of the Teen Titans. He is a Hispanic hero who was loved and respected by his family and friends in spite of his sexuality and power to create violet constructs. I like Bunker because I believe every demographic should have their own hero to root for.

I've read that Bunker actually is a popular character, and I do find him rather likable, even though I've vowed to stop reading anything DC publishes from August 2011 to present, not counting reprints of comics published prior to 2011.

I dislike Scott's run of Teen Titans because he said none of the prominent Titans' enemies would appear in his run (except for Raven's dad Trigon) and because I actually first heard of the Titans from that cartoon, so I prefer rosters that include Starfire, Robin, Raven, Cyborg, and Beast Boy. I also like Kid Flash, Superboy, and Wonder Girl.

I have mixed opinions on Cyborg now being a founding member of the Justice League in the New 52. Half of me finds it cool and the other half is pissed that he didn't start out as a Teen Titan.

I would say more about my disapproval of The New 52, but I wish to move on and I don't want anyone complaining to me about author tract.

Razer and Aya-

They appeared exclusively in the unfortunately short-lived Green Lantern animated series, but I have a gut feeling that they may go the way of Mercy Graves, Harley Quinn, and Mas y Menos and turn up in the comics someday.

Razer was introduced as a member of the Red Lantern Corps, and his hatred of killing others made him a reluctant ally to the Green Lanterns. It was eventually revealed that Razer actually was forced to join the Red Lanterns because Atrocitus killed his wife. The series finale gave the implication that he would become a Blue Lantern.

Aya was a sentient artificial intelligence and an ally of the Green Lantern Corps who became renegade in the end, but sacrificed herself when she came to her senses. Razer remained hopeful that she was still alive somewhere.

I have only seen two episodes of the Green Lantern animated series, but I share everyone's disappointment that it got canned. I would have loved to see the Sinestro Corps, the Black Lantern Corps, Alan Scott, John Stewart, and Kyle Rayner make appearances on the show.

This is the first time I drew Aya fully, so I don't want any criticisms for her "looking weird". I previously drew her as a Blue Lantern construct in one of my Visions of Sugarplums drawings, a series of drawings I made for Christmas that had DC, Marvel, and TMNT characters having romantic and erotic dreams about their wives, girlfriends, and women who just caught their fancy.

Amnee and Matoo Pree-

Matoo and his wife Amnee became members of the Green Lantern Corps on their wedding night. I first learned of their existence from a Green Lantern Corps comic I randomly purchased for my DC Comics app.

Amnee Pree was in a pickle once when she was expecting a child, which caught the attention of Sinestro Corps member Kryb, an old hag notorious for killing couples and stealing their infant children. I was relieved to know from looking the Lanterns up on the Internet that Matoo and Amnee Pree avoided the fate of most of Kryb's victims and kept their child. I was also outraged when I found out that the always selfish and always shortsighted Guardians felt that the best solution to Kryb's attacks was to make it forbidden for Green Lanterns to fall in love.

Because of the Guardians' selfish decision, Amnee and Matoo Pree are no longer members of the Corps.

And that's right. I had the courage to draw Amnee breastfeeding her child! If breastfeeding offends you, just don't look, or at least politely tell the mother to be more discreet.

I also don't like it when bottle-feeding mothers are criticized for not nourishing their babies the way nature intended. Just let them do it the way they wanna!

Oops, there I go again. Sorry about the tract.

Ch'p and M'nn'e-

The last couple I drew for this picture are my favorite extraterrestrial Green Lantern Ch'p and his wife M'nn'e, acting out the classic gentlemanly gesture of using your coat to cover a puddle so the woman doesn't have to step in it. Though since Ch'p is a Green Lantern, he has the advantage of simply using his power ring to make a miniature bridge for M'nn'e.

I first heard of Ch'p from DK Publishing's Guide to the DC Universe. I liked the little alien squirrel even more when I discovered that he was actually very popular among the fandom.

Ch'p became Lantern of Sector 1014 when his predecessor was fatally injured in the line of duty, but died before he could pick a successor. M'nn'e was Ch'p's girlfriend and later wife, but the Crisis on Infinite Earths came and changed history so that while Ch'p still existed, his people forgot about the Green Lanterns and thought Ch'p was killed years ago. The straw that broke the camel's back was the heartbreaking discovery that M'nn'e was now married to Ch'p's best friend D'll.

Then in the Mosaic series, Ch'p had the indignant death of being run over by a yellow truck. Like all deceased Green Lanterns (and deceased DC characters in general), he became a Black Lantern during Blackest Night.

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1stSuperboyFan's avatar
I so agree with you on Bunker. He and Gar needs to come back or get is own comic.