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Green Lantern: Rebirth Compendium
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1536 pages, Paperback
Published December 23, 2025
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Geoff Johns
2,972 books2,429 followersGeoff Johns originally hails from Detroit, Michigan. He attended Michigan State University, where he earned a degree in Media Arts and Film. He moved to Los Angeles in the late 1990s in search of work within the film industry. Through perseverance, Geoff ended up as the assistant to Richard Donner, working on Conspiracy Theory and Lethal Weapon 4. During that time, he also began his comics career writing Stars and S.T.R.I.P.E. and JSA (co-written with David S. Goyer) for DC Comics. He worked with Richard Donner for four years, leaving the company to pursue writing full-time.
His first comics assignments led to a critically acclaimed five-year run on the The Flash. Since then, he has quickly become one of the most popular and prolific comics writers today, working on such titles including a highly successful re-imagining of Green Lantern, Action Comics (co-written with Richard Donner), Teen Titans, Justice Society of America, Infinite Crisis and the experimental breakout hit series 52 for DC with Grant Morrison, Greg Rucka and Mark Waid. Geoff received the Wizard Fan Award for Breakout Talent of 2002 and Writer of the Year for 2005, 2006, 2007, and 2008 as well as the CBG Writer of the Year 2003 thru 2005, 2007 and CBG Best Comic Book Series for JSA 2001 thru 2005. Geoff also developed BLADE: THE SERIES with David S. Goyer, as well as penned the acclaimed “Legion” episode of SMALLVILLE. He also served as staff writer for the fourth season of ROBOT CHICKEN.
Geoff recently became a New York Times Bestselling author with the graphic novel Superman: Brainiac with art by Gary Frank.
His first comics assignments led to a critically acclaimed five-year run on the The Flash. Since then, he has quickly become one of the most popular and prolific comics writers today, working on such titles including a highly successful re-imagining of Green Lantern, Action Comics (co-written with Richard Donner), Teen Titans, Justice Society of America, Infinite Crisis and the experimental breakout hit series 52 for DC with Grant Morrison, Greg Rucka and Mark Waid. Geoff received the Wizard Fan Award for Breakout Talent of 2002 and Writer of the Year for 2005, 2006, 2007, and 2008 as well as the CBG Writer of the Year 2003 thru 2005, 2007 and CBG Best Comic Book Series for JSA 2001 thru 2005. Geoff also developed BLADE: THE SERIES with David S. Goyer, as well as penned the acclaimed “Legion” episode of SMALLVILLE. He also served as staff writer for the fourth season of ROBOT CHICKEN.
Geoff recently became a New York Times Bestselling author with the graphic novel Superman: Brainiac with art by Gary Frank.
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January 1, 2026
A mammoth of a book that covers the rebirth of the Green Lantern Corp in the early 2000s, this is not to be confused with a collection of Green Lantern comics from DC’s similarly named Rebirth initiative—I made that mistake when I first picked this up. The largest downside of this 1500+ page tome is that, by the end, story beats exist that have yet to be resolved. Thankfully, the follow-up compendium, The Sinestro Corps War, comes out March 2026.
March 28, 2026
Good amount of Red Tornado content, I'm satifsfied with my purchase
Although I'm a bit dissapointed in the lack of appearances made by John, this book perfectly did what I bought it for, introduce me to the Corps. It did even more than that actually, it introduced me to a lot of the DC universe.
Not the biggest fan of all of this, I don't really like how the book skips around from series to series (although I don't know how else they could've done it), how The Green Lantern Corps series is formated is also not really for me and every hero being kind of cool until they open their mouth around women. It's insane how the writers can bring me a beautifully entertaining story with a decent amount of maturity, but from the second they need to write a woman into their story they turn into 13 year old boys. (not talking about how they write Guy btw, he gets the pass for being the worst)
The artist of the Rann-Thanagar war draws children with adult faces which is funny.
There was a crazy jumpscare of Hal's victim at the end which was not appreciated, and instead of moving past it they make a whole big deal about her being back. I honestly thought they were just going to ignore that part of Hal's history, but oh no, they retcon it to be just a little less fucked up, but that's it. This along with Deathstroke still having issues published to this day, baffles me to no end.
I enjoyed this
Although I'm a bit dissapointed in the lack of appearances made by John, this book perfectly did what I bought it for, introduce me to the Corps. It did even more than that actually, it introduced me to a lot of the DC universe.
Not the biggest fan of all of this, I don't really like how the book skips around from series to series (although I don't know how else they could've done it), how The Green Lantern Corps series is formated is also not really for me and every hero being kind of cool until they open their mouth around women. It's insane how the writers can bring me a beautifully entertaining story with a decent amount of maturity, but from the second they need to write a woman into their story they turn into 13 year old boys. (not talking about how they write Guy btw, he gets the pass for being the worst)
The artist of the Rann-Thanagar war draws children with adult faces which is funny.
There was a crazy jumpscare of Hal's victim at the end which was not appreciated, and instead of moving past it they make a whole big deal about her being back. I honestly thought they were just going to ignore that part of Hal's history, but oh no, they retcon it to be just a little less fucked up, but that's it. This along with Deathstroke still having issues published to this day, baffles me to no end.
I enjoyed this
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March 31, 2026
4.75 stars. This was epic. 5 stars for GL Rebirth and the ongoing. 4.25 for GLC and 4 for Ion. Writing (Johns for GL, Gibbons mostly for GLC, Marz for Ion) and art (a lot of Ivan Reis and Ethan Van Sciver) are exceptional. Rebirth is a great story that explains the parallax situation and redeems Hal. Rann-Thanagar War is great. GLC Recharge and the ongoing were surprisingly great with a heavy focus on Guy Gardner, and it also made me care a lot about these new lanterns from all over. The Ion series surprised me with how good it was and issue 12 in particular was very emotional with Kyle's mother dying. A couple Guy Gardner issues in here that were not great but good to see them collected. And the main ongoing GL series was simply incredible top to bottom. Planting seeds with the world building like gradually mentioning the Sinestro Corps even though Sinestro is not really in the ongoing series. Little glimpse of some Star Sapphire towards the end. Different villains get to shine like the Manhunters, Cyborg Superman, Hector Hammond, Amon Sur (vengeful son of Abin Sur). Cannot praise this enough, it is exceptional.
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March 29, 2026
I dare anyone who thinks the character of Green Lantern is stupid to read through this and tell me they didn't come away feeling like they could overcome great fear.
This book felt very set-up heavy for the Sinestro Corps, but it made up for it greatly by reintroducing us to the famous green lanterns like Jordan, Stewart, Gardner, and Rayner, while also handling the reintroduction of the corps as an organization.
I won't lie, the book almost lost me when it started covering the Rann-Thanagar war, because I know that it's important to give context to where a lot of these new lanterns came from, but... I just don't really care about Carter Hall and his lore, y'know. Luckily this only lasts about 6 issues, and then we're back to our regular scheduled programming.
5/5 for creating the Green Lantern lore we know and love today, minus one star for the German-speaking Aliens.
This book felt very set-up heavy for the Sinestro Corps, but it made up for it greatly by reintroducing us to the famous green lanterns like Jordan, Stewart, Gardner, and Rayner, while also handling the reintroduction of the corps as an organization.
I won't lie, the book almost lost me when it started covering the Rann-Thanagar war, because I know that it's important to give context to where a lot of these new lanterns came from, but... I just don't really care about Carter Hall and his lore, y'know. Luckily this only lasts about 6 issues, and then we're back to our regular scheduled programming.
5/5 for creating the Green Lantern lore we know and love today, minus one star for the German-speaking Aliens.
March 14, 2026
This was such a fantastic collection of the Green Lantern universe at the time. Though it can feel a bit padded out at times (this really didn’t need the Guy Gardner mini-series or Rann-Thanagar War), it makes for such a great read!
The only thing holding this back is also the thing that makes it great, how it is a collection of many different Green Lantern books. If you gravitate towards one series more than the others like me (Green Lantern Corps), then you’re only gonna get so much of that series. But, that just makes me even more excited to pick up The Sinestro Corps War compendium.
The only thing holding this back is also the thing that makes it great, how it is a collection of many different Green Lantern books. If you gravitate towards one series more than the others like me (Green Lantern Corps), then you’re only gonna get so much of that series. But, that just makes me even more excited to pick up The Sinestro Corps War compendium.
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