Luckily we don't have that issue with the New 52, they are all starting with issue 1! New stories old characters so you don't have to be lost.
Warning will be going over synopsis of storyline for entire issue, if you do not want it spoiled I suggest waiting till you read the issue.
Green Lantern Corps
Here is our cover featuring some noticeable favored Lanterns of the Corp: From bottom to top Arisa, Guy Gardener, John Stewart, Killowog, Soranik Natu, Stel, and lastly Hannu.
The comic starts off in Sector 3599 in a GL sector house, the two Lanterns of this sector have someone imprisoned who is yelling obscenities and threats while they go about there processing duties of the weapons confiscated and the criminal himself. They turn there back on him and then see he finally goes silent. They turn to thank him and find his body has been cut in two blood every where. As they take fighting stances and ask there ring to locate the intruder, one of the GL's looses a head. The others ring locates a target and just as she is about to fire on the unseen intruder, he grabs her ring hand, cuts her in half like the prisoner, then cuts off the finger that holds her ring, causing both Lanterns rings to leave there hosts to find new replacements for this sector. Nothing of this enemy can be seen save for his hand and his eyes which are also ironically cast in a metallic green color.
From this opening scene we are taken to Guy Gardner watching a planetarium presentation on earth, when his ring alerts him of an interview he is late for. We then see him surrounded in a waiting room, probably by other men interviewing for what ever position hes there for. All these men pestering him as he is a known Green Lantern, asking him questions about aliens, and his sector and to power up his ring. When he is finally called in for the interview. It would seem he is applying for a Coaching position for a High School Football team. The woman interviewing him makes it blatantly clear that as he is a Green Lantern, he has duties that would come before the children, not to mention being a GL, he could be a target of an attack putting the students in danger. Obviously he didn't get the job.
We are then taken to one of earths other known GL's, John Stewart, as we know he is an architect. He is currently meeting with contractors discussing new safety features he would like to install on the building currently being worked. The contractors arguing as to why when they are already approved for everything in the design, to go over budget for added safety features. Obviously John is coming from his standpoint as a GL (not to mention we all know he was unable to save an entire planet belonging to his GL wife) is a little more paranoid about safety. The contractors continue to argue money over precaution and he gets upset, using his ring and scaring the contractors a bit before flying off.
The comic then cuts back to sector 3599 on the planet Nerro, what appears to be a completely water based planet, with purple swimming mole like inhabitants, a giant whirl pool appears and begins sucking them in.
We are then taken to Guy and John, in there GL uniforms shooting the breeze on a satellite orbiting earth, wondering why they never took on secret identities like the other two of Earth Sectors 4 Green Lanterns, Hal Jordan, and Kyle Rayner, saying it makes it hard to have a normal life at home on Earth. John says its because they needed to stand out, both having there reasons for doing so. They determine maybe there not meant for a "normal" life, they are both soldiers and decide to head to Oa, the home planet and Sector 0 for the Green Lanter Corps.
Here we see the "assistant" to the Guardians , and GL recorder Salak wittiness there return. Just as they arrive, Salak questioning why they are not in there sector, and Guy stating 4 Lanterns for one sector is overkill and Kyle and Hal can handle it for a while, to which Salak reminds that Hal is no longer a Green Lantern (having been discharged after the War of the Green Lanterns for killing a Guardian Krona.) John sees in Salaks many screens that a bunch of Lanterns have died in one sector, sector 3599, They were answering a distress call on the planet Nerro and lost contact and were next noted as deceased. Salak states he was about to send another emergency patrol there as back up. Guy and John, of course offer themselves up for the job and take some other Lanterns with them. Vandor, Isamot Kol, Sheriff Maroin, Hannu and Brik, they arrive at the planet to see it has been drained dry, all its inhabitants dead. And as if to send a message, the GL's sent to investigate, hanging dead on spears.
That is the entire plot for Green Lantern Corps issue 1.
So lets start with the character revamp.
Nothing has really changed about Guy Gardeners GL uniform. Its practically the same.
Johns if anything has stayed mostly the same as well, but the green parts have more of a metallic look to them.
Interesting way to start this off already we see, a danger to the Corps, a practically invisible enemy, until he wants you to see him. Who also seems to have no trouble at all killing the Green Lanterns, now this could just be that he catches the unawares, while most Lanterns project a field tight to there bodies to protect them from attack.
So we are left with a cliff hanger at the end. Wondering who is it killing off Lanterns? Wondering why Hal is still no longer with the Corps? How are Guy and John, going to save themselves?
I am sure that things will only continue to get more and more interesting with each new issue that is released.
I am curious as it seems that maybe John and Guy are going to be the main Lanterns featured in this series for a while.
Hal Jordan the first Lantern, was discharged and from what we know for the Green Lantern issue 1, features Sinestro (who regained his GL status during the War with Krona) as its hero. And I was unable to get that issue I may know more, but I am left to ponder, is Sinsestro fighting the good fight again? And will Hal take back his mantel of the Greatest Green Lantern?
Kyle as it appears is the head liner of a new series called Green Lantern: New Guardians, in which he appears to team up with the second in commands of the other Corps of the spectrum. Will he make appearances in Corps or is he going to continue with New Guardians for a while?
All in all if your a GL fan make sure you get this issue, obviously you will probably miss the first print (people collect them and save them for money making way way way out in the future) but second print is usually easier to find and they tend to release more of the second print anyway.
Next Up Wonder Woman issue 1 of the New 52!
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