Green Lantern #2 spoilers

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Key things that happened:

Dead Guardian is sent into the central battery as some sort of a ritual.
GLs are on the hunt for terrorists that attacked them in previous issue.
GLC is accepted to the United Planets and due to that Guardians are changing how the corps work. From my understanding sectors that overlap with UP's activities are removed and those lanterns are assigned to new tasks.
Crux worlds are explained, basically 7 core planets that are driving the progress in every universe. Krypton and Xanshi were Crux worlds. Earth is another Crux world, other 4 were not named.
Earth being Crux world is offered as an explanation for why it has so many super powered beings and ties into some Morrison's stuff by mentioning that it will eventually become fifth world replacing New Gods. Hal Jordan is assigned to protect Earth and is now only Lantern operating there.
John is set to lead 1000, yes 1000, Green Lanterns to some dark sectors that are hidden from Guardians by some multiversal mumbo jumbo.
But before any of this can happen central battery explodes. Issue ends with Jo arriving and her ring saying that there are no GLs left on the planet. We see Simon on the ground and Teen Lantern still has her powers because gauntlet works differently and technically she is not a lantern.

In other words some eggs are being broken here. I feel like this is either going to be one of the better GL runs or complete disaster that everyone will try to forget few years later.

[Factor]

Key things that happened:

Dead Guardian is sent into the central battery as some sort of a ritual.
GLs are on the hunt for terrorists that attacked them in previous issue.
GLC is accepted to the United Planets and due to that Guardians are changing how the corps work. From my understanding sectors that overlap with UP's activities are removed and those lanterns are assigned to new tasks.
Crux worlds are explained, basically 7 core planets that are driving the progress in every universe. Krypton and Xanshi were Crux worlds. Earth is another Crux world, other 4 were not named.
Earth being Crux world is offered as an explanation for why it has so many super powered beings and ties into some Morrison's stuff by mentioning that it will eventually become fifth world replacing New Gods. Hal Jordan is assigned to protect Earth and is now only Lantern operating there.
John is set to lead 1000, yes 1000, Green Lanterns to some dark sectors that are hidden from Guardians by some multiversal mumbo jumbo.
But before any of this can happen central battery explodes. Issue ends with Jo arriving and her ring saying that there are no GLs left on the planet. We see Simon on the ground and Teen Lantern still has her powers because gauntlet works differently and technically she is not a lantern.

In other words some eggs are being broken here. I feel like this is either going to be one of the better GL runs or complete disaster that everyone will try to forget few years later.

Haha I have the same feeling as you do. This will either be a great run or it will do irreparable damage to the franchise.
I will say that I LOVE that they finally explained why there are so many Earth Lanterns. I'd also like to know why they're all Americans (and most with military backgrounds), but I doubt anyone will touch on that topic.
The issue actually named some of the other Crus worlds when they showed the planets Cruz and Rayner are assigned too.

All in all I liked the issue. It will certainly be VERY controversial, which I guess the franchise kind of needs to attract all the attention that's been lost since the end of Johns's run.

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I'd also like to know why they're all Americans (and most with military backgrounds), but I doubt anyone will touch on that topic.

I wonder if we won't get something on that front. John brings up that "outriders" are basically a military escort and Guardians wanted him to lead, essentially, an expeditionary force before everything went to hell. Militarization of GLs (and police force in general if we want some "real world connection") might be one of the themes explored here.

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The issue actually named some of the other Crus worlds when they showed the planets Cruz and Rayner are assigned too.

Went back to check and I think only Rayner's is named - Raggashoon. Quick google search reveals that it is some planet that appeared in first Omega Men series and it is in Vega system. So you know, sounds like Rayner is in some deep ****.

Edit: scratch that, Oishisha is Cruz's, but I couldn't find anything on it, so might be a new planet? And is Mogo itself a Crux world?

[sifighter]

Went back to check and I think only Rayner's is named - Raggashoon. Quick google search reveals that it is some planet that appeared in first Omega Men series and it is in Vega system. So you know, sounds like Rayner is in some deep ****.

Edit: scratch that, Oishisha is Cruz's, but I couldn't find anything on it, so might be a new planet? And is Mogo itself a Crux world?

Man that’s got to be an ego boost for Mogo. He was already pretty important but now he’s essential to the multiverse.

[Avi]

I honestly forgot that the battery was gonna go boom so soon.

Nice to know why so many Lanterns are from Earth. Not sure if Simon is really dead or just badly hurt. But there are already -2 Crux planets, so I guess there must be -2 Earth Lanterns as well?

The ending hit me right in the feels. Keli just got a whole lot more interesting to me, and I was already interested in what's up with the gauntlet.

That the Guardian was just send into the central battery before it exploded seems a bit suspicious.

[sifighter]

I honestly forgot that the battery was gonna go boom so soon.

Nice to know why so many Lanterns are from Earth. Not sure if Simon is really dead or just badly hurt. But there are already -2 Crux planets, so I guess there must be -2 Earth Lanterns as well?

The ending hit me right in the feels. Keli just got a whole lot more interesting to me, and I was already interested in what's up with the gauntlet.

That the Guardian was just send into the central battery before it exploded seems a bit suspicious.

I think Simon is still alive because solicitations say he’s helping but that could be a lie for all we know. Also, does it look like his ring just sort of blew up?

And that mysterious robe dude was totally on the Mobius chair right?

[abetterday]

I thought that it was very good. It looks like the Green lantern rings are serving as a type of internet service. I always thought that advanced civilizations in comics should already had internet service eons ago. I just happened to looked up the history of the internet recently and discovered that the term 'internet' is short for intergalactic network. It would be cool if they retcon it to exist with Alan Scott in the JSA or maybe even back further. If Cyborg wasn't sidelined this could have been a solid reason for him to form a Cyborg corps, hack into the rings like he did in the Darkseid War and lead a search for the lost Green Lanterns.

[kalai]

Was the last time central battery go boom during Light Out?
Really can't remember, so many times central battery goes boom.

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Nice to know why so many Lanterns are from Earth. Not sure if Simon is really dead or just badly hurt. But there are already -2 Crux planets, so I guess there must be -2 Earth Lanterns as well?

Well its not connected like that I think, not all Earth Lanterns are assigned to Crux Worlds. From my understanding this is what we got at the moment:

Krypton - boom
Xanshi - boom
Earth - Hal
Raggashoon - Rayner
Oishiha - Cruz
Mogo - taking care of itself

That leaves us with one more planet that was not mentioned, or I didn't notice it.

[sbp1972]

Well its not connected like that I think, not all Earth Lanterns are assigned to Crux Worlds. From my understanding this is what we got at the moment:

Krypton - boom
Xanshi - boom
Earth - Hal
Raggashoon - Rayner
Oishiha - Cruz
Mogo - taking care of itself

That leaves us with one more planet that was not mentioned, or I didn't notice it.

I thought the fifth planet was Oa itself.

[Bored at 3:00AM]

I'm definitely intrigued. I've seen the Central Power Battery blow up so many times now that the shock value has long since passed, but the writing and art is solid enough that I am curious to see where this is all going

[hairys]

Loved this issue and the world-building. 10/10.

Well its not connected like that I think, not all Earth Lanterns are assigned to Crux Worlds. From my understanding this is what we got at the moment:

Krypton - boom
Xanshi - boom
Earth - Hal
Raggashoon - Rayner
Oishiha - Cruz
Mogo - taking care of itself

That leaves us with one more planet that was not mentioned, or I didn't notice it.

OA is the 5th Crux, I think.

I wonder if we won't get something on that front. John brings up that "outriders" are basically a military escort and Guardians wanted him to lead, essentially, an expeditionary force before everything went to hell. Militarization of GLs (and police force in general if we want some "real world connection") might be one of the themes explored here.

That's not my read. The emphasis is "escort" -- the GLs that were part of the 1200 sectors that are given over to the United Planets will escort the UP personnel and help them transition into being the peacekeepers in those sectors.

[Korath]

Went back to check and I think only Rayner's is named - Raggashoon. Quick google search reveals that it is some planet that appeared in first Omega Men series and it is in Vega system. So you know, sounds like Rayner is in some deep ****.

Edit: scratch that, Oishisha is Cruz's, but I couldn't find anything on it, so might be a new planet? And is Mogo itself a Crux world?

I think the known crux worlds are Oa, Earth, Xanshi, Mogo, Krypton, Raggashoon and Oishisha ?

Also, i'm really happy that ever since JLO, DC seems finally interested in fleshing out its cosmic side in several books at once in a sort of concerted effort.

[Johnrevenge]

It was a good issue. Like many others have said, I really liked the explanation of why there are too many Earth lanterns.