Lantern confusion

[Meow]

Green, Red, Blue and Black lanterns. Orange, Sinestro, Indigo and Star Saphires? Is there a good collection, omnibus or showcase to get where you can get explanation, history and background to them all before hopping on the new run this summer.

[Outside_85]

Probably the best place to get the full experience is by tracking down the prelude issues to Blackest Night (Like: Rage of the Red Lanterns) which did serve as an introduction to the 4 additional colored groups, alternatively just get Blackest Night since the logics behind them is pretty basic. The GL's... you'd probably want GL: Rebirth as a starting point, for the Sinestro Corp you should looks up Sinetro Corp War. Not quite sure where to look with the Star Sapphires for an in-depth explanation to them.

regarding the reading order, it is probably easiest to start with Rebirth, then Sinestro and then let the other come in whatever order you fancy since most of their connections lie with the Greens and Yellows.

[JohnniG]

I read the prelude to blackest night and it explained everything nicely. Cant remember the name.

[Doctor Know]

Green, Red, Blue and Black lanterns. Orange, Sinestro, Indigo and Star Saphires? Is there a good collection, omnibus or showcase to get where you can get explanation, history and background to them all before hopping on the new run this summer.

Geoff Johns's GL run has been collected into 3 omnibuses (one isn't out yet), and the rainbow lantern thing begins here and is expanded upon in these arcs.

http://www.amazon.com/Green-Lantern-...antern+omnibus


Or I can recommend the TPB that you could read, if the omnibuses are out of your price range.
http://www.amazon.com/Green-Lantern-...antern+omnibus

[MikeMC005]

All of the Johns omnibus' up through brightest day. That's where I would go.

[GlennSimpson]

In terms of just a quick reference, there was a two-page spread in like a Green Lantern Secret Files or something that was tremendously helpful to me at the time, I recall.