Hal Jordan Joins a Space Cop Cult in Grant Morrison’s NewGreen Lantern: Blackstars

Hal Jordan ’s unhesitating faith in his unlearned sense of jurist is a gravid part of what ’s always made him one of DC Comics ’ most formidable Green Lanterns , but this fall the fabled space cop is going dark in an all - new series from writer Grant Morrison and creative person Xermanico .

The closed book of Green Lantern : Blackstars actually start with the coming stopping point of Morrison and creative person Liam Sharp ’s current Green Lantern arc due this October that will somehow lead to every Green Lantern in the galaxy seemingly being erased from chronicle . In apress release , Morrison explained how even though the Green Lanterns are gone , Hal Jordan will move up as a phallus of the titular Blackstars , a newfangled , very Lantern - like cult of natural law hatchet man :

Oa is the underframe - paved haunt of revengeful demons . And the Blackstars — a minacious cult of universal peace and concordance , involving surrender to the will of the insidious and/or possibly illuminated Controller Mu — are in the cognitive operation of subjugating the universe to their credo .

Hal Jordan and the space vampire Countess Belzebeth.

Hal Jordan and the space vampire Countess Belzebeth.Image: Liam Sharp (DC Comics)

Jordan ’s one of the Blackstars ’ principal operatives . He ’s central , although the Cosmic Vampire Countess Belzebeth vies with him for mastery of the narrative in Blackstars . Hal Jordan is the sort of man who will excel in any situation , so naturally he ’s an elite Blackstar in this altered - persistence .

While this is n’t the first time that Hal ’s turned to the black side of things , the concept of a rage of fascist cops in space is interesting on its face because there ’s a opportunity Blackstars could end up explore some very real - world estimate abouthow fascists make their way into real law enforcement .

The Green Lantern # 12 hits storage on October 2 and Green Lantern : Blackstars # 1 drops on November 6 .

Image: Liam Sharp