{"id":36306,"date":"2026-08-25T18:14:05","date_gmt":"2026-08-25T18:14:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/?p=36306"},"modified":"2026-08-25T18:14:05","modified_gmt":"2026-08-25T18:14:05","slug":"green-lantern-sector-2814-volume-1-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/2026\/08\/25\/green-lantern-sector-2814-volume-1-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Green Lantern Sector 2814 volume 1"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nBy Len Wein<\/strong>, Dave Gibbons<\/strong>, with Dick Giordano<\/strong>, Mike DeCarlo<\/strong>, Mark Farmer<\/strong>, Ben Oda<\/strong>, John Costanza<\/strong> & various (DC Comics)
\nISBN: 978-1-4012-3689-2 (TPB), 978-1-4012-4166-7 (Digital edition)<\/p>\n

This book includes Discriminatory Content<\/strong> produced in less enlightened times.<\/em><\/p>\n

Since the dawn of US comics\u2019 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 a conceptual framework for the comprehensive, pervasive magic of the DC Universe\u2019s 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 that materialised thoughts) to seek out a replacement officer, honest and without fear. Scanning the planet, it selected Jordan and brought him to the crash site. Before dying the alien bequeathed his ring, lantern-shaped Battery of Power<\/em> and professional vocation to the astonished Earthman. 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 countless sentient beings under the severe but benevolent auspices of immortal superbeings 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 now dwell in sublime, emotionless security and tranquillity on the world of Oa<\/em>\u00a0at the very centre of creation. Their Green Lanterns are chosen for the capacity to overcome fear and are equipped with a ring to shape solid constructs from emerald light. The miracle weapon is fuelled by the strength of the user\u2019s willpower, making it, in the right hands\/appendages, 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\u2019 motives and ineffability increasingly came into question by many amongst their once-devoted operatives and peacekeepers. Increasingly frequently they saw the formerly infallible little blue gods exposed as venal, doctrinaire, ruthless and even capricious. 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\u2019s problems and criminals. This led to the Oans banishing Jordan, compelling him to scrupulously patrol his appointed interstellar beat and never again set foot on Earth…
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\nThis fabulous cosmic Fights \u2018n\u2019 Tights compilation gathers Green Lantern<\/strong> #172-176 and 178-181. It spans January to October 1984 and celebrates the end of that exile as new writer\/editor Len Wein united with illustrator\/letterer Dave Gibbons (vanguard of the \u00a0\u201cBritish Invasion\u201d of talent that reshaped the comic book industry) to bring the wanderer home…<\/p>\n

After a year away 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 \u2018Judgment Day!\u2019 <\/em>gave him everything he wanted. Sadly, when Jordan returned to Coast City he soon discovered that the world had moved on without him…<\/p>\n

Reunited with lover Carol Ferris<\/em>, Hal tries to readjust in \u2018Old Friends, New Foes…!\u2019<\/em> but an unsuspected rival at work is as nothing compared to 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 details) who supplies the mystery villain with a selection of super-powered mercenaries…<\/p>\n

The first of these is a German maniac with a penchant for high-tech tricked-out spears who attempts to kill the Emerald Crusader and vaporise \u2018 Aircraft in #174\u2019s \u2018I Shot a Javelin into the Air…!\u2019<\/em>
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\nGL<\/strong> #175 offers a fraught reunion with old pal Barry Allen<\/em> – AKA The Flash<\/strong> – before a predatory mutant archenemy resurfaces to turn Hal\u2019s city and friends into \u2018Shark Bait!\u2019 <\/em>The psionic assault of The Shark<\/em> consumes Hal\u2019s mind, leaving the defeated Emerald Gladiator brainwiped, comatose and dying, but in #176 (inked by Dick Giordano & lettered by Ben Oda) the indomitable personality of Hal Jordan battles his way out of the paranormal predator\u2019s cerebral gullet and back into action through a series of \u2018Mind Games!\u2019<\/em><\/p>\n

That enigmatic enemy in the background still wants GL gone and Ferris obliterated, and subsequently commissions more high-tech hirelings in #178: specifically, a squad of construction-worker-themed wreckers dubbed the Demolition Team<\/em>. Throughout the period of these tales, ferocious deadlines plagued the ocean-separated creative team, with Gibbons\u2019 preference to draw, ink and letter the stories perpetually confounded by the fact that he was generally receiving scripts 3 pages at a time. In an era before the internet when fax machines were 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…
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\nBefore that, though, just as Ferris is battered and shattered by \u2018A Bad Case of the D.T.s!\u2019<\/em>, Green Lantern is called away 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\u2019s \u2018Let Us Prey!\u2019<\/em> (both by Wein & Gibbons).<\/p>\n

By the time Jordan returns to view the \u2018Aftermath!\u2019<\/em> (GL <\/strong>#180 with Mike DeCarlo inking and Ben Oda on letters) the damage has been done both to the factory and Hal\u2019s now-crippled friend Clay Kendell<\/em>. Appalled at his own dereliction of duty and personal failures, Jordan consults with a number of Justice League<\/strong> colleagues before heading to Oa in #181 (Mark Farmer inks & John Costanza letters) and telling the Guardians to \u2018Take This Job… And Shove It!\u2019<\/em>
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\nThey accept, precipitating one of the biggest events in DC history, just as back on Earth and back at Ferris, Carol seeks to rebuild and hires an architect named John Stewart<\/em>…<\/p>\n

To Be Continued…
\n\u00a9 1984 DC Comics. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n

Today in 2000, we lost the astounding iconic Carl Barks.<\/p>\n

In 1912 strip cartoonist\/screenwriter Theodore Keyser <\/strong>AKA Ted Key<\/em><\/strong> (The Biggest Dog in the World<\/strong>, The Cat from Outer Space<\/strong>, Hazel<\/strong>, Peabody\u2019s Improbable History<\/strong>) arrived, followed a year later by Pogo<\/strong>\u2019s pappa Walt Kelly<\/strong>. In comic books, Fred Schwab<\/strong> (Tenderfoot Joe<\/em>, Lady Luck<\/strong>) came along in 1917; prolific Marvel colourist Don Warfield<\/strong> in 1944 and Michael Wm. Kaluta<\/strong> (The Shadow<\/strong>, Carson of Venus<\/em>, Spawn of Frankenstein<\/em>, Starstruck<\/strong>) in 1947, with Archie<\/strong> all-star Dan<\/strong> Parent<\/strong> and cartoonist Bob Fingerman<\/strong> (Minimum<\/strong> Wage<\/strong>, Beg the Question<\/strong>) both born in 1964.<\/p>\n

On this date in 1973, British licensed anthology vehicle TV Action<\/strong> folded after 74 weeks, whilst in 2014 Kosuke Fujishima<\/strong>\u2019s epic manga comedy Oh My Goddess<\/strong> ended in Monthly Afternoon<\/strong>. The accumulated fun filled 48 volumes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Len Wein, Dave Gibbons, with Dick Giordano, Mike DeCarlo, Mark Farmer, Ben Oda, John Costanza & various (DC Comics) ISBN: 978-1-4012-3689-2 (TPB), 978-1-4012-4166-7 (Digital edition) This book includes Discriminatory Content produced in less enlightened times. Since the dawn of US comics\u2019 Silver Age – where and when The Flash kick-started it all to become … <\/p>\n

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