Green Lantern Dark

Green Lantern: Dark (2024) #1-7

by Tate Brombal, Werther Dell'Edera

A haunted flame. A decaying world. A last hope.

On a post-apocalyptic Earth overrun by monsters, the battle between good and evil ended long ago—and evil won. Now darkness prevails as humanity struggles to survive in the corrupted wasteland that remains. Only one hero is said to haunt what’s left of our shadowed cities, the one who wields the mystical green flame that could return light to a dark world—The Green Lantern. But she’s been missing for years, and with every passing night the witch queen Demona’s cruel machinations and the hoard of infernal creatures under her command threaten to swallow the isolated island of New England whole!

Celebrated horror artist of smash hit Something is Killing the Children Werther Dell’Edera teams with rising-star writer Tate Brombal (Batgirl, House of Slaughter) to bring you a chilling tale of desperation, hope, and resurrection from the bitter remains of the fan-favorite Tangent Universe!

Collects Green Lantern Dark #1–7.

Genres: Graphic Novels, Comics, Dc Comics, Superheroes, Fantasy, Graphic Novels Comics

264 pages, Paperback

First published February 24, 2026

Reviews

[Anna Quilter]

A young female Green Lantern in a bleak Elseworlds ..well it certainly works for me [ surprisingly ].
My only slight thing here is the Artists.
Obviously very well known for SOMETHING IS KILLING THE CHILDREN and I did drift off in this...wondering exactly what I was reading.
Monsters, missing children and even a face of a major character looked familiar?
Though...we can't get too much of SIKTC..can we?

[Frédéric]

Green Lantern: Dark was a really pleasant surprise. I was really drawn in by the particularly dark, at times oppressive atmosphere, which gives the story a tone quite different from what one might expect from a classic Green Lantern tale. Brombal has a firm grasp on his narrative. The plot follows familiar themes – some of which, such as the concept of willpower, are inherent to Green Lantern – but manages to breathe new life into it by playing on the dark, apocalyptic atmosphere and the characters.

Between the depressed Green Lantern, the delightfully bitchy antagonist and the little girl who’s both a bit irritating and far too cute – with a funny French name that isn’t actually a name – there’s plenty to enjoy. The dialogue is well written, with the villain’s lines often being funny and biting, natural and frequently punchy.

But the real standout is the artwork and the colouring. I’m definitely a fan of Dell’Edera. The balance between expressionism and a cartoonish style is beautifully brought out by Giovanna Niro’s colours, which are almost on a par with Miquel Merto’s in SIKTC.

[Eva B.]

Oh, man, this one was rough.
I'm not super knowledgeable on the Tangent universe, but it seems really neat. I loved Rina and I think her backstory is really interesting, along with the changes to Green Lantern lore in this universe. However, what could have been a great story starring Rina was brought down several pegs by the fact that she was shackled to the most obnoxious tagalong children and villain imaginable. I don't have a problem with kids in comics--I love Ruthye from Supergirl and I thought Charlie from the recent Hulk series was cool--but Lunette was insufferable and had no personality besides "loves Green Lantern" and "optimistic". Her mother was killed in the first issue but you'd never know it since she basically has no reaction to it. All she does is complain that Rina isn't saving people fast enough (despite not knowing how Rina's powers work) and cause problems for Rina by rushing into danger. Her annoying brother wasn't much better, and his betrayal felt so forced. And don't even get me STARTED on Demona. When we first saw her, I was excited because I thought that she was Poison Ivy, a villain that made sense with the whole seed motif and the plant stuff with Grundy, but instead we get Demona, the daughter of Morgaine le Fay and the Batwraith who is just downright insufferable. I NEVER want to see the word "scrummy" again. For a series that had a great and grounded look at depression and the realities of living in a dying world, Demona felt over the top to the point of ridiculousness and was impossible to take seriously as a threat because she acted like a 2000s D-Com mean girl and flounced around talking about how she wanted to gobble up all the scrummy, scrummy sadness.
Could've been great, but sure as hell wasn't. Would love to see more of Rina Mori in the future, though.

[Abel Loro]

Una adolescente emo punk nihilista que ha sido elegida como Green Lantern. De vez en cuando habla de beber cerveza y acabar con todo; qué mayor, qué trágico, qué adulto. El mensaje está bien, que no es otro que aún a las malas, o las peores, mantener la esperanza, la voluntad de todos, pero creo que se gestiona de manera un tanto torpe porque se alarga demasiado y claro, la mitad de la serie la prota se la pasa autoflagelándose y ninguneándose y qué mal todo y yo no elegí esto y solo quiero una cerveza para acabar con todo. ¿En serio? ¿Una cerveza como analogía del suicidio? Qué mal se le está haciendo a las nuevas generaciones. Esta es la típica historia en la que los personajes hablan mucho de cómo son pero demuestran muy poquito con sus actos. Y eso es un error garrafal, máxime en un medio como el cómic.
Ahora bien, el arte me ha parecido sensacional, una pasada ese trazo sucio y esas luces y reflejos. Sin duda, lo mejor de la obra.
Aunque Rina no usa mucho su magia, las veces que lo hace son maravillosas gracias al dibujo de Wherter.
En resumen, aparte de dos o tres ideas interesantes que apenas se exploran, poco se puede sacar como historia autoconclusiva.

[Rumi Bossche]

Fantastic artwork!

[Ya Boi Be Reading]

2.5 rounded up because this is not for me but it’s clear it has appeal and is crafter well. Green Lantern, Elseworld, and Tate Brombal (whose DC work I’ve been enjoying) all in one trade? How could I not read this!
This whole story feels a bit too slow for me. At first I chalked it up to a slow start to set up the reluctance of Rina Mori, the current GL, towards her role as a bastion of hope against various all-consuming darkness and evil manned by Demona. But it keeps that sort of pace throughout with little time of Mori and Demona coming at direct odds which I found to be the most interesting part.
The worldbuilding is interesting but not what I expected. It’s post apocalypse with some smattering of Arthurian mythology. It’s interesting for sure and had some nice chops to add onto the message of hope and willpower pushing through hopelessness and just giving up. The city of Omelas is played with a bit here and I always love a good play on or exploration of that. The legacy aspect of Green Lantern flowed well into how humanity’s hope keeps us pushing on against the gleeful nihilism that Demona represents. Batwraith was confusing but cool and the more monstrous bi-polar representation of Beast Boy was cool.
I wanted to like all this but it all just didn’t fully click with me sadly.
The lettering and art aren’t my favorite. The art is a tad scratchy and loose for characters and most background work with a touch of watercolor. It has a lot of thin pencil hatchings as well which I found to be more distracting than helpful details with how clustered they were. But it all does create an ambience and atmosphere but just sadly one I didn’t fall into. Every once in awhile the art really adds pizzazz with this really cool artstyle which I can only describe as “How to make planets with spray paint tutorial” style. This also occasionally does the thing of having very large lettering for sound effects. It takes up the background of panels leading to the art (genuinely great art) to jar against strong bold full colored letters. That kind of stark difference could've made them easier to tell apart and read but I found just made things more muddled and harder to parse

[Clint]

An Elseworlds Green Lantern story told with the look and thematic vibes of a Something Is Killing The Children story. I really enjoyed seeing Dell’Edera’s visual take on the handful of familiar DC characters that show up, and Brombal infuses it with a message about finding the will to hope when the world seems too dark to recover.

“The future is held together by commas and ellipses, not by any one of us but by the sum of us all refusing to let this story end…”

[John Shaw]

I hate to shit all over
something with out
cause, however this
book IS just plain bad.

Some sort of
post apocalyptical world.
It had already lost
my attention by then.

And the only hero left
is a Green Lantern.

The real problem was that
I just did not
CARE about any of these
people.

[Idylliac]

The art was a little choppy in this book. There were definitely a few panels that I had to study carefully because I could not tell what I was actually looking at. The story was pretty good though.

[b]

Is the arc kind of obvious? Yes. Expected beats for sure. And yet, the art and the small, specific choices work perfectly. Really glad I stuck with this from the first issue.

[Jordan Dant]

Best GL book I've read in years, moving and inspirational and a shame that it's a standalone Elseworld. I would love to read more of Rina's story.