{"id":17980,"date":"2018-02-20T08:00:32","date_gmt":"2018-02-20T08:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/?p=17980"},"modified":"2018-02-19T16:54:35","modified_gmt":"2018-02-19T16:54:35","slug":"green-lantern-sector-2814-volume-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/2018\/02\/20\/green-lantern-sector-2814-volume-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Green Lantern Sector 2814 volume 1"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nBy Len Wein<\/strong>, Dave Gibbons<\/strong> & various (DC Comics)
\nISBN: 978-1-4012-3689-2<\/p>\n

Since the dawn of American comics’ Silver Age, where and when The Flash<\/strong> kick-started it all to become the fast-beating heart of the revived genre of superheroes, his fellow jet-age re-tread Green Lantern<\/strong> has always provided the conceptual framework for the comprehensive, pervasive magic of the DC Universe’s monolithic shared continuity.<\/p>\n

Hal Jordan<\/em> was a brash young test pilot in Coast City<\/em>, California when an alien cop crashed on Earth. Mortally wounded, Abin Sur <\/em>commanded his power ring – a device which could materialise thoughts – to seek out a replacement officer, honest and without fear.<\/p>\n

Scanning the planet, it selected Jordan and brought him to the crash-site. The dying alien bequeathed his ring, the lantern-shaped Battery of Power<\/em> and his professional vocation to the astonished Earthman.<\/p>\n

Jordan grew to be one of the greatest members of a serried band of law-enforcers. The Green Lantern Corps<\/em> has protected the cosmos from evil and disaster for billions of years, policing vast numbers of sentient beings under the severe but benevolent auspices of immortal super-beings who consider themselves the Guardians of the Universe<\/em>.<\/p>\n

These undying patrons of Order were one of the first races to evolve and dwelt in sublime, emotionless security and tranquillity on the world of Oa<\/em> at the very centre of creation.<\/p>\n

Green Lanterns are chosen for their capacity to overcome fear and are equipped with a ring that creates solid constructs out of emerald light. The miracle weapon is fuelled by the strength of the user’s willpower, making it one of the mightiest tools in the universe.<\/p>\n

For eons, a single individual from each of the 3600 sectors of known space was selected to patrol his, her or its own beat.<\/p>\n

As the series progressed The Guardians’ motives and ineffability increasingly came into question by many of their once-devoted operatives and peacekeepers, who too frequently saw the formerly infallible little blue gods exposed as venal, ruthless, doctrinaire and even capricious\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<\/p>\n

Even as his fame and repute grew, headstrong Hal had endured an extremely tempestuous relationship with his bosses which eventually resulted in them accusing him of neglecting his space sector – 2814 – to concentrate on Earth’s problems and criminals.<\/p>\n

This led to the Oan overlords banishing Jordan: compelling him to scrupulously patrol his appointed interstellar beat and never again set foot on Earth\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<\/p>\n

This fabulous cosmic Fight’s ‘n’ Tights trade paperback compilation – also available in eBook editions – gathers Green Lantern<\/strong> #172-176 and 178-181. It spans January – October 1984 and celebrates the end of that exile as new writer\/editor Len Wein united with illustrator\/letterer (and vanguard of a \u00e2\u20ac\u0153British Invasion\u00e2\u20ac\u009d of talent that would reshape the comicbook industry) Dave Gibbons to bring the wanderer home\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<\/p>\n

After a year way performing heroic service across the starways, Jordan stridently petitioned his master on Oa where a phalanx of his comrades supported his request to be allowed back to his birthworld. His ‘Judgment Day!’ <\/em>gave him everything he wanted but when Jordan returned to Coast City he quickly discovered that the world had moved on without him\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<\/p>\n

Reunited with lover Carol Ferris<\/em>, Hal tries to readjust in ‘Old Friends, New Foes\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6!’<\/em> but an unsuspected rival at work is as nothing compared to the covert machinations of an unsuspected observer and power-broker known as the Monitor<\/em> (yes, that guy! Check out Crisis on Infinite Earths<\/strong> for more detail) who supplies the mystery villain with a selection of super-powered mercenaries\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<\/p>\n

The first of these is a German maniac with a penchant for high-tech trick spears who attempts to kill the Emerald Crusader and vaporise Ferris Aircraft in #174’s ‘I Shot a Javelin into the Air\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6!’<\/em><\/p>\n

GL<\/strong> #175 offers a fraught reunion with old pal Barry Allen<\/em> – AKA the Flash<\/em> – before a predatory mutant archenemy resurfaces to turn Hal’s city and friends into ‘Shark Bait!’<\/em><\/p>\n

The Shark<\/em>‘s mental assault consumes the hero’s mind, leaving the Emerald Gladiator brainwiped, comatose and dying, but in #176 (inked by Dick Giordano and lettered by Ben Oda) the indomitable personality of Hal Jordan battles his way out of the paranormal predator’s cerebral gullet and back into action through a series of ‘Mind Games!’<\/em><\/p>\n

The enigmatic enemy in the background still wants GL gone and Ferris obliterated, however, and subsequently commissions more high-tech hirelings in #178: specifically, a squad of construction-worker themed wreckers dubbed the Demolition Team<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Throughout the period of these tales, ferocious deadlines plagued the creative team, with Gibbon’s preference to draw, ink and letter the stories perpetually confounded by the fact that he was generally receiving scripts three pages at a time. In an era before the internet when the fax machine was the acme of technological communication, something had to give, and after a fill-in issue (#177 and not included here) failed to solve the problems, two last all-Gibbons issues were followed by a separation of roles\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<\/p>\n

Before that though, just as Ferris is battered and shattered by ‘A Bad Case of the D.T.s!’<\/em>, Green Lantern is called way from Earth by the implacable Guardians to save an exploding planet. Heartbroken and terrified, Carol sees her company practically destroyed until a new, brutally vicious protagonist steps in to stop the Demolition Team in #179’s ‘Let Us Prey!’<\/em> (both by Wein & Gibbons).<\/p>\n

By the time Jordan returns to view the ‘Aftermath!’<\/em> (GL <\/strong>#180 with Mike DeCarlo inking and Ben Oda on letters) the damage has been done both to the factory and Hal’s now-crippled friend Clay Kendell. Appalled at his own dereliction of duty and personal failures, Jordan consults with a number of Justice League<\/em> colleagues before heading to Oa in #181 (Mark Farmer inks & John Costanza letters) and telling the Guardians to ‘Take This Job\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 And Shove It!’ <\/em><\/p>\n

They accept, precipitating one of the biggest events in DC history\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<\/p>\n

To Be Continued\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6
\n\u00c2\u00a9 1984 DC Comics. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Len Wein, Dave Gibbons & various (DC Comics) ISBN: 978-1-4012-3689-2 Since the dawn of American comics’ Silver Age, where and when The Flash kick-started it all to become the fast-beating heart of the revived genre of superheroes, his fellow jet-age re-tread Green Lantern has always provided the conceptual framework for the comprehensive, pervasive magic … <\/p>\n

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