Tales of the Green Lantern Corps Volume 3.

Tales of the Green Lantern Corps #3

by Steve Englehart

The universe is infinite, and in the depths of space many abhorrent and deadly invaders are hiding, plotting, and can strike without warning at any time. The galaxy's largest team of heroes stands ready to challenge these threats, armed with the most powerful weapon ever created - the Power Ring.

Genres: Comics, Graphic Novels, Comic Book, Dc Comics, Fiction, Superheroes, Science Fiction

144 pages, Paperback

First published December 21, 2010

About the author

See also John Harkness.

Steve Englehart went to Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut. After a stint in the Army, he moved to New York and began to write for Marvel Comics. That led to long runs on Captain America, The Hulk, The Avengers, Dr. Strange, and a dozen other titles. Midway through that period he moved to California (where he remains), and met and married his wife Terry.

He was finally hired away from Marvel by DC Comics, to be their lead writer and revamp their core characters (Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, Flash, and Green Lantern). He did, but he also wrote a solo Batman series (immediately dubbed the "definitive" version) that later became Warner Brothers' first Batman film (the good one).

After that he left comics for a time, traveled in Europe for a year, wrote a novel (The Point Man™), and came back to design video games for Atari (E.T., Garfield). But he still liked comics, so he created Coyote™, which within its first year was rated one of America's ten best series. Other projects he owned (Scorpio Rose™, The Djinn™) were mixed with company series (Green Lantern [with Joe Staton], Silver Surfer, Fantastic Four). Meanwhile, he continued his game design for Activision, Electronic Arts, Sega, and Brøderbund.

And once he and Terry had their two sons, Alex and Eric, he naturally told them stories. Rustle's Christmas Adventure was first devised for them. He went on to add a run of mid-grade books to his bibliography, including the DNAgers™ adventure series, and Countdown to Flight, a biography of the Wright brothers selected by NASA as the basis for their school curriculum on the invention of the airplane.

In 1992 Steve was asked to co-create a comics pantheon called the Ultraverse. One of his contributions, The Night Man, became not only a successful comics series, but also a television show. That led to more Hollywood work, including animated series such as Street Fighter, GI Joe, and Team Atlantis for Disney.

Reviews

[M · Rating 2 out of 5]

This third volume of the classic Green Lantern Corps in this nostalgic look into the history of the DC Universe's own space police. In the aftermath of the multiversal crisis, a contingency of seven Lanterns opt to make Earth their home base. Hal Jordan returns to his life as a test pilot and Earth's premier Lantern. John Stewart and Katma Tui are attempting to make their relationship work while headlining the newest crew of Lanterns. The squirrel-like Ch'p, multi-armed Salaak, maturing Arisia, and muscled Kilowog round out the crew, with each selecting Earth for their own personal reasons. The team faces off against Doctor Polaris, Sonar, Black Hand, and a few other nondescript villains from the Silver Age in these old-school adventures; even Guy Gardner makes a few appearances in his typical brash manner. Compared to today's reinvented mythology, Steve Englehart's tales can be read as simplistic. Yet beneath the campy villains and dialogue, he attempts to tackle larger notions of race, gender, appearance, and relationships. The art from Joe Staton helps define each Lantern character, especially with the unique notion to alter each member's uniform to fit their personality. Tales of the Green Lantern Corps is a fun look at the early history of the GLC for classic comic fans.

[Steven · Rating 3 out of 5]

Rather than completing the collection of back-up stories from Green Lantern, DC leapt ahead to to the post-Crisis renaming of the book as Green Lantern Corps with #201, compiling #201 to #206. Seven members of the Corps relocate to Earth in the wake of the Guardians leaving, getting into various scrapes (including a fraught relationship with the media) and *really* getting into the squick of the Hal/Arisia thing, as this is when she “subconsciously” uses her ring to age her from fourteen (in Earth years) to her early twenties. Hal puts up a token objection, but....

Yeah, Hal’s still a dick.

[Nicolas · Rating 3 out of 5]

I think this stumbles a bit while finding it's way to manage so many characters. Still, I enjoy the overall vibe and can stick out the growing pains. Ch'p is impossible to take serious and I really don't like Arisa storyline. John Stewart is still fun and Salakk cracks me up. I'm ready for more.

I slipped in a few Green Lantern questions when interviewing the author for the All the Books Show: https://soundcloud.com/allthebooks/in...

[Sarah · Rating 4 out of 5]

A little slow in the beginning, but once I got about halfway through, I found I was enjoying the stories of these Green Lanterns moving to Earth. Solid comic book storytelling plus a nice look back at the GL mythos—a combination that any comic fan can enjoy.

[MCitizen · Rating 3 out of 5]

It was ok till the hand

The hand story killed it for me . Not to mention Hal n Arista (not the record label). She may look like an adult but she's still only 14.

[Book_eater · Rating 3 out of 5]

Pretty good, but, man, I thought Arisia thing will be later:(

[Travis · Rating 4 out of 5]

Bad cosmic thing has happened and the Green Lantern Corps is broken and scattered.
Hal Jordan and John Stewart return to Earth to figure out what's next, and end up with a group of alien Lanterns, who have lost their sectors or just their way.

Interesting to have a hero team where everyone has the same super power and there is a strong effort to give each lantern a distinct personality, style of using their ring and story arc.

[Dean · Rating 3 out of 5]

I actually bought (and still own) these individual issues when they came back, but haven't read them in a long while. Strangely, I remember really liking them at the time, but less so on this read through.
Steve Englehart has always been a favourite writer of mine, I just found the stories and characters here a bit too simplistic. The premise was always a bit silly, trying to establish several members of the Green Lantern Corps as an Earth-based superteam, when what set them apart was their mission and the fact they were essentially space cops with a 'beat'. It made little sense.
Statons art is also a little 'messy' for me as well. I read and nostalgically enjoyed, just found more faults than I expected.

[Nico Meyering · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book, like any good Green Lantern trade, focuses on the Corps itself rather than individual members. That's why GL titles have been so popular and successful of late.

Unfortunately, while this tome is periodically so retro that you can nearly hear A Flock of Seagulls and Duran Duran in the background, it's also retro in a BAD way: Hal rejects Arisia's advances but repeatedly calls her "honey". John Stewart can't let Katma Tui introduce herself; he has to interject just so people know she's:

a) A woman
b) JOHN STEWART'S woman

Poofy hair, New Wave, and sexism. That's what the Green Lantern Corps' all about!

[Phil · Rating 3 out of 5]

Better than the second volume