Oa - Green Lantern in it's entirety Appreciation Thread

[lemonpeace]

"In brightest day, in blackest night,
No evil shall escape my sight.
Let those who worship evil's might,
Beware my power... Green Lantern's light!"

in the spirit of the old Green Lanterns thread, I present The Book of Oa: a thread in Appreciation of the Green Lantern mythology. This thread is dedicated to all Green Lanterns and everything within their mythology. so whether you are a fan of John Stewart, Alan Scott, Sodam Yat, Sinestro, Kyle Rayner, Guy Gardner, Arkillo, Jo Mullein, Hal Jordan, Teen Lantern, Mogo, Saint Walker, Ganthet, Aya, you name it; all are welcome!

Created by: (writer), (artist)

First Appearance: working on it

Essential Reading
Emerald Twilight
Emerald Dawn
New Dawn
Green Lantern: Rebirth
Green Lantern: No Fear
Infinite Crisis
Green Lantern: Mosaic
Sinestro Corps War
Green Lantern: Secret Origin
Sinestro Corps War
Blackest Night
Brightest Day
War of the Green Lanterns
Sinestro's War
Green Lantern Corps: Edge of Oblivion/Lost Army
Green Lanterns: Out of Time
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what do you consider essential reading material for the Green Lantern canon?


Powers: All members of the various Lantern Corps utilize a ring (or other instruments) to use and manipulate pure light energy supplied by a Power Battery; in the case of the Green Lanterns, this light energy takes the form of bright green light. A Green Lantern's ring, considered by some to be one of the most powerful weapons in the known universe, has the ability to affect and use fundamental forces of the known universe including electromagnetic energies such as gravity, radiation, heat, and light. It is also theorized that the ring has a basis in other dimensional energies commonly called magic by users of such energies. The ring can also create fields of force and hard light contructs from the green aspect of the Emotional Electromagnetic Spectrum bound by the users' will. The limitations of such use, given a sufficiently charged ring, are the skill, knowledge and imagination of the user.

Alan Scott, unlike the Lanterns to come after him, controls the mystical power of the Starheart: an ancient artifact created by the Guardians of the Universe to contain the predominate amount of magic they had gathered in the universe. The Starheart's power manifests as green flame and green light that Alan can use and manipulate to almost identical affect as other Green Lanterns. The Starheart has a weakness to wood, as it is an incarnation of "green, growing things" and thus could not be turned against them. This implies a connection between the Starheart and the elemental force of "The Green", an intertextual connection made more explicit on Earth-2 where Alan Scott was the Avatar of The Green.

Notable Members:
- Alan Scott
- Hal Jordan
- John Stewart
- Guy Gardner
- Kyle Rayner
- Simon Baz
- Jessica Cruz
- Sojourner "Jo" Mullein
- Kilowog
- Salaak
- Arisia
- Mogo
- Sodam Yat
- Katma Tui
- Soranik Natu
- Abin Sur
- G'Nott
- Tomar Re
- Tomar Tu
- Somar-Le
- Krkkzz Zappl