[DC] - GREEN LANTERN CORPS RECHARGE [TPB] [ENG] 2006
GREEN LANTERN CORPS RECHARGE [TPB] [ENG] 2006
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Green
Lantern Corps: Recharge was a five-issue, monthly comic book limited series
that was published by DC Comics from November 2005 to March 2006. The series
was written by Geoff Johns and Dave Gibbons and illustrated by Patrick Gleason.
The series starred several members of the Green Lantern Corps, a fictional
intergalactic police force in the DC Universe, and was one of two follow-ups
(the other being a fourth volume of Green Lantern, with Hal Jordan as the main
character) to the mini-series Green Lantern: Rebirth, which had been published
earlier in 2005. It is notable for featuring the first appearances of Soranik
Natu, Vath Sarn and Isamot Kol, members of the Green Lantern Corps that would
serve as recurring characters in future Green Lanterns storylines written by
Johns and other writers.
A
monthly ongoing Green Lantern Corps debuted in June 2006, the first such
monthly series since 1988.
Backstory
In
1994, DC Comics published the controversial story Emerald Twilight,
which established Hal Jordan as the supervillain Parallax and introduced a single Green Lantern
for our universe, Kyle Rayner.
In 2005, Jordan was redeemed and resurrected in the miniseriesGreen
Lantern: Rebirth. Rebirth, along with the subsequent new volume of the Green
Lantern monthly series, returned Jordan to the status of “star” Green
Lantern of Earth. It also returned former Lantern officer Guy Gardner to
the ranks of the Corps.
Synopsis
The Guardians of the Universe have summoned Guy Gardner and Kyle
Rayner to Oa, amidst a massive recruitment drive of 7,200
new Green Lanterns. Among the new recruits is Korugarian neurosurgeon Soranik
Natu. Because of
Korugar’s unfortunate history with the evil Green Lantern Sinestro, and the death of fellow Korugarian Katma
Tui, Natu initially refuses the ring, but
reluctantly takes it to save the life of a patient. Two other recruits are
plucked from opposite sides of the Rann/Thanagarian War, the Rannian soldier Vath
Sarn, and the
condemned Thanagarian saurian Isamot
Kol.
Ganthet, the leader of the Guardians, announces that
several Green Lanterns have been killed recently by the sudden manifestation of
black holes. He also warns that the Rann/Thanagar War has spread and may
eventually affect Oa and the Corps. Meanwhile, Natu has gone missing, finding
herself in an unidentified location devoid of light and filled with web-like
objects, and a dead Green Lantern. Gardner is dismayed to learn that he is to
help train the new recruits, which he sees as little more than babysitting. He
decides to leave Oa, but head trainer Kilowog manages to make him stay.
The Green Lanterns' rings
pick up a signal from Soranik Natu, locating her in the Vega star system. The
pact between the Psions of
Vega and the Guardians restricts Green Lanterns from
entering that system, but Rayner and Gardner head there anyway. Meanwhile, new
recruits Vath Sarn and Isamot Kol are assigned to divert ships away from an
unstable star. The star goes nova, and the two Lanterns
attempt to pull the ship from the ensuing black hole, but are sucked in along
with the arriving Kilowog.
The three find themselves
in a nest of some sort, with a horde of spiders approaching, and the skeletons
of the creatures’ previous victims beneath their feet. Kilowog, Sarn and Kol
fight off the creatures, and escape from the planet into outer space, where
they encounter a mechanical planet. Rayner and Gardner arrive in the Vega
system, where they find a ringless Natu being held prisoner by unidentified
aliens. Natu at first shows no signs of life, but soon reanimates via her ring.
While being imprisoned, she ordered her ring to slow down her vital processes,
so that she would appear to be a lump of organic waste. After fleeing from a
group of bounty hunters, the group finds Kilowog.
It turns out that the mechanical planet is
the nest of the Spider Guild. The Spider Guild is responsible for various black
holes and soon attacks Oa. Kilowog summons all Green Lanterns to Oa’s
Central Power Battery. Gardner tells the entire Corps to fire on Oa’s sun to
first stabilize it, and then to feed energy back to Vega in order to destroy
the Guild’s nest. While the spiders continue to attack, killing some Green
Lanterns, the sun is slowly stabilized, overloading the Guild’s subspace web. Both Oa's sun and the Guild Nest are destroyed.
In the aftermath of the Corps’ victory, the
Guardians fear retribution from the Psions for intruding into the Vega system.
Ganthet adds that they must fortify their damaged citadel, and suggests it may
be time to make the universe afraid of them. Salaak tells Gardner the Guardians
are pleased with the exceptional qualities he has displayed, and are promoting
him to Lantern #1 of the Corps Honor Guard.
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