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Warning : contains spoilers forGreen Lantern War Journal#3!Green Lantern’snew villains are the dreary and twisted opposite of a new Lantern corp . The Green Lantern Corps has face down the the likes of of the Sinestro Corps and the Black Lanterns , but a unexampled menace , known as the Radiant Dead , has emerge . Readers have see tantalizing hints of the Dead ’s magnate , but inGreen Lantern War Journal#3 , they find out the horrifying truth . This stunning revelation earn the Radiant Dead unlike any foe face before , even bad than the Black Lanterns .
Green Lantern War Journal#3 is publish by Phillip Kennedy Johnson and drawn by Montos . Varron , a former Green Lantern , has been corrupted by the Radiant Dead . He infects Stewart as well , and reveals the truth about the Radiant Dead : they can feast on any chassis of life … but they favour Lanterns .
The Radiant Dead consumes and thrives on the get-up-and-go of Lanterns , and as Stewart judge to agitate back , Varron tells him the more he balk , the faster he will succumb to its evil .
The Radiant Dead Are an Existental Threat to the Green Lantern Corps
The saga of the Green Lantern Corps has taken some unexpected turns in the preceding year , and the arrival of the Radiant Dead is but the up-to-the-minute . After the Guardians turned bulk control of the Corps over to the United Planets , many long - time Lanterns such as Hal Jordan and John Stewart were left voiceless . In their place , the UP appointed the arrogant Varron to the Corps and assigned him Sector 2814 . After a failed attempt at confiscate Stewart ’s major power , Varron fall under the spell of the Radiant Dead , becoming the vanguard of an encroachment .
As one of the existence ’s primary heartsease - keeping military group , the Green Lantern Corps have melt afoul of some of the creation ’ worst , such as the Sinestro Corps , the Manhunters , the Controllers and the Black Lanterns , to name a few . The Radiant Dead , originating from outside our universe , have a bun in the oven a go along resemblance to the Black Lanterns . The Black Lanterns were a terrifying slew , but they were not concerned in ware the light of other Lanterns . The Radiant Dead , on the other hired hand , feed on this light , meaning the more the Lanterns attempt to stand firm , the more they fall under the Dead ’s influence . This take the Radiant Dead a truly insidious foe .
The Radiant Dead One-up The Black Lantern Corps
Green Lantern War Journal#3situates the Radiant Dead as a truly cosmic threat , one equal to of threatening the intact multiverse . John Stewart learns this from Shepherdand a variant of Kyle Rayner , who impresses upon him how frightening a menace the Radiant Dead are . For all of their power , the Black Lanterns did not have the multiversal range of the Radiant Dead , nor could they use the Lanterns ' own power against them . The ante forGreen Lanternhas been upped by the Radiant Dead , who take the bad aspects of the Corps ’ most despicable foeman to terrific extremes .
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