SPOILER SPORT: GEOFF JOHNS ON SINESTRO CORPS

[MattBrady]

by Vaneta Rogers

SPOILERS FOR GREEN LANTERN: SINESTRO CORPS

In blackest day ... In brightest night ...
Beware your fears made into light.
Let those who try to stop what's right...
Burn like my power ... Sinestro's might!

That oath has been anticipated by Green Lantern readers for the last year, and in this week’s oversized Green Lantern: Sinestro Corps Special #1, writer Geoff Johns and artist Ethan Van Sciver introduced their promised Sinestro Corps, complete with hundreds of yellow, fear-powered rings, and setting up a story of cosmic war that will be featured in both the Green Lantern and Green Lantern Corps titles this summer.

And as readers of the 64-page one-shot found out, there’s a lot more to this story than just guys with green rings fighting guys with yellow rings. Not only does Sinestro have some of DC’s most powerful and feared villains on his side, but there are several new discoveries for Green Lantern fans to soak in -- from the huge green entity who is the embodiment of willpower, to the spectrum of emotions and prophesies rejected by the Guardians of Oa, to the emotional possession by Parallax of yet another hero.

Plus, of course, cool-looking scary alien dudes. Lots and lots of cool-looking scary aliens.

But the real kicker? Among those evil Sinestro allies – leading the whole thing, it turns out – is one surprise villain that caused a collective jaw drop across DC's readership this week as they turned to the issue’s final page: The Anti-Monitor.

If your head is still reeling from a “too-much-power” hangover after reading the one-shot, sit back and take a break as we hear from the writer himself about the issue -- and find out what other surprises Johns and friends might have in store for Green Lantern fans as the story of the Sinestro Corps continues.

Newsarama: Let’s start right at the beginning of this comic. It starts with that intense scene where Sinestro is stripped and looks defeated, humiliated. And you introduce the idea that Sinestro is really ticked off, in particular with Kyle Rayner, whom he calls the Alley Rat, right?

Geoff Johns: Sure. That all goes back to Rebirth.

NRAMA: Because Kyle’s the one who caused that scar in his back, so he’s seeking revenge on him in particular. And then he says the Sinestro Corps oath for the first time. I remember you teasing about that last summer. You must have had a blast writing that.

GJ: Yeah, that was fun. I came up with the oath like two years ago.

NRAMA: Did you really? That long ago?

GJ: Yeah. I was dying to do it, so it's the first thing I wanted to do. But yeah, the oath is a lot of fun. And it sets Sinestro’s motivations up right away – “those who try to stop what’s right!”

NRAMA: We also found out in this issue that the Guardians have known about the multiverse for awhile, which you implied way back in Green Lantern #13. But they describe the structure of the multiverse in a way we haven't really heard explained so simply before: There are 51 parallel universes that depend on New Earth and its universe for their very survival?

GJ: Yeah. You know, I wanted this one-shot to be massive and cosmic. I think Green Lantern has that range to go from grounded jet jockey or artist or architect to bigger than life Stars Wars-style adventure. We did Rebirth, and then we kind of settled down and re-established Hal, and now we can gear back up for the Star Wars-style cosmic story. But with this one-shot, I really wanted to design it as a very entry-level story, despite the huge concepts that we're using. So I tried to explain everything very simply and clearly -- the characters, the multiverse, the Corps, Hal, Kyle, John, Guy, etc. And Sinestro.

NRAMA: Right, yeah. Each of the key players had a small introductory narrative that explained the basics of who they are and where they are right now -- it's very new-reader friendly. But while the multiverse idea isn't necessarily complicated, I don't know that we'd ever heard it described quite that way -- as one universe kind of supporting the others. And there's just one Antimatter universe, right?

GJ: Yes. There's the Anti-Matter universe and the multiverse. That’s all you need to know.

NRAMA: So are you saying it's not important to know the nitty gritty about the structure of the multiverse for this story?

GJ: You want to know how important Earth is and how it spawned this multiverse, and how the mulitverse is structured. But at the same time, this is really a story about, as we call them, the Four Musketeers. That's really what this story is to me.

NRAMA: Then let's talk about the Four Musketeers. Who are they?

GJ: Well, you've got Hal, Kyle, Guy and John. After we brought Hal back in Rebirth everybody kind of went their own separate ways, and this is all about bringing these Four Musketeers back together for this big adventure.

NRAMA: So it’s a journey of these four heroes – the four Green Lanterns from Earth. I noticed that Zoom talked about what makes a hero better, talking about facing villains... going through tests...

GJ: ... making mistakes.

NRAMA: Yeah. And he's talking to the Justice League and naming some of the members...

GJ: He talks about the villains as he's facing Batman, and obviously Batman has the best rogues gallery in comics. He says "the things you return from" to Superman, and Superman died and came back. Then "the mistakes you've made" he says to Wonder Woman, who killed Maxwell Lord and lived to tell the tale.

NRAMA: But each of those things that Zoom says also seems to foreshadow what's going on with your Four Musketeers in this story. The way they're facing villains and great tests and having to come back from adversity.

GJ: It does. It's partly that. It's the Corps and what they'll face. It is everything. It is what we live through and what we experience and what we overcome. It's all about overcoming great fear. That's what makes these heroes better. That's what makes a Green Lantern.

NRAMA: Getting back to what the Guardians were saying, two of the Guardians, Ganthet and Sayd, talk about the Blackest Night prophesy, right?

GJ: Yep.

NRAMA: "A war of light will unleash the truth behind the power of the ring." So the Guardians are hiding not only information about the multiverse, but information about the nature of the ring's power?

GJ: Yeah. It's about taking the mythology to the next level. Like Rebirth re-introduced a lot of it -- the Corps, the Guardians, the power rings -- now we can look at it closer. One of my favorite scenes in Rebirth was about the power rings, when Ollie tried to use one and it wouldn't work.

NRAMA: Yeah, it took everything he had to do it.

GJ: He could barely squeeze out an arrow because it was so tough. So now, because we've established the Green Lanterns, this is just me peeling another layer back. Green Lantern should be out there. It should be grounded by the humans that wear the rings, but it should be cosmic and otherworldy in scale.

NRAMA: You’ve also been dropping hints in this title related to colors and emotions. In the last issue, we saw a whole spectrum of colors at the end, and now the Guardians are talking in this issue about various emotions they’ve rejected like hate and avarice and love and compassion.

GJ: Sure. I will say, you've seen three. And Blue Beetle and the power of the Reach is not related to it, though Blue Beetle is one of the very few books that will touch on Sinestro Corps.

NRAMA: The three we've seen are willpower, fear, and love, and four more were teased. But are these colors and the emotions going to play a part in this story?

GJ: Well, those are bigger elements of the overall story. We'll learn more about certain aspects of the emotional spectrum and how it works.

NRAMA: Can you explain a little bit now about how it works?

GJ: The whole idea is that life itself, sentient life, is what gives birth to power. And emotions, which complex lifeforms experience -- like humans, who are on the low end of complex lifeforms in the universe compared to other advanced races -- when they experience an emotion, when we do, it's much more powerful than just an evolved and complicated brain. It's about the soul and the spirit, and that releases a kind of energy into the universe. The more people feel certain emotions that are important to our spirituality, either positive or negative, the greater that power will exist in the universe, and the more someone can tap into it.

NRAMA: Wow. That’s pretty mind-blowing stuff. So simple in nature, yet with a pretty deep concept behind it. Where did this come from, Geoff?

GJ: Well, I believe that it's not just complicated brains that make us feel emotion.

NRAMA: Something bigger than just chemical reactions?

GJ: Yeah. So this is me kind of delving into the idea and breaking open the Green Lantern mythology a bit more to explore it. Exactly what emotions are and how they relate to spirituality, and how those are so special in the universe.

NRAMA: So Kyle had Ion, the embodiment of the emotion willpower, within him.

GJ: Yes.

NRAMA: And the Ion creature could be removed because Kyle lost his willpower? This power of the emotion that you're talking about?

GJ: Yeah, he was broken down so much physically and mentally. At that point, he was just overwhelmed and it was able to be removed.

NRAMA: Then he was possessed by the Parallax entity, complete with a modified Hal Jordan-type Parallax costume. But some have wondered -- why is Kyle glowing green if the entity is yellow?

GJ: It's just like in Rebirth, Parallax glowed green when he possessed Hal. It's a big "eff you!"

NRAMA: [laughs] OK.

GJ: [laughs] ... which I love. Parallax is sadistic as hell. This creature is just sadistic as hell.

NRAMA: And the Starheart? It wasn’t mentioned here, but will we find out about it in future issues?

GJ: It’s going to be addressed in the storyline.

NRAMA: And how did you pick the shape of the willpower entity? Did Ethan design that?

GJ: It's mostly Ethan, but I wanted something docile and friendly. Not like Parallax, who's so monstrous. Something that would look like you could swim in space with it. I think that's why we went with a dolphin-type creature.

And like Sinestro said, willpower is the center of it all. It's a balance. To the left, you have fear, so you have yellow and then orange and red and the spectrum goes into the negative. Green in the middle. Then on the other side, blue, indigo and violet, and you get into the positive emotions. Violet we’ve revealed ties into the power the Star Sapphires.

But I love adding these new mythology elements to the Green Lantern Corps. Look at all the stories we're going to get out of making Parallax an entity.

NRAMA: And the Ion willpower entity -- will its link to the Green Lantern rings be explored more?

GJ: Sure, we'll explore it more. We'll get into all of this in Green Lantern.

You know, it's funny because I think you have a book like Sinestro Corps where it's a one-shot, and I've heard people say, "Oh, this is a big 'event.'" Well, it's an event for Green Lantern and, of course, some DCU people will be involved. Maybe more. But really ... it's ....

NRAMA: It's a story.

GJ: It's a story. And it's a Green Lantern story first and foremost. They are our defense in the greater universe beyond Earth. Of course, that doesn’t mean it doesn’t involve big characters.

NRAMA: Speaking of big characters, those Sinestro Corps members got a lot of big-name villains out of "jail" in this issue. They broke out Parallax, Superboy Prime and Cyborg Superman all at one time, right?

GJ: Yes.

NRAMA: And they killed a handful of Green Lanterns while they were doing it. How did they take them down so quickly? Was it because of the yellow vulnerability and the fact the Corps has so many inexperienced GLs?

GJ: Yeah. I mean, they attacked the most vulnerable place -- where all the rookies were. And you can see guys flying around with just white symbols on them. We've established in the Green Lantern books that that symbol is the badge. That's the police badge. And when they're rookies, they just have a white circle. And rookies are vulnerable to yellow. You don't get that full badge until you are able to overcome fear again and again and again, and overcome the yellow weakness.

NRAMA: The way they get slaughtered so quickly by just a few Sinestro Corps members makes you realize, they're pretty screwed right now, aren't they? [laughs]

GJ: [laughs] Yes, they’re totally screwed. The stakes are high. And what Sinestro wants, and what the other villains want -- everyone has their own motivations. They may be working together, but they each have their own motivation. Some of them won't line up. But we're going to show that later.

NRAMA: So you'll explain the villains' motivations? Why they're doing this?

GJ: Of course. And you know, I wanted to stack the deck against the Green Lanterns with a big unified group. One thing I always hated in comics was arguing villains, because if you had a group of villains who argued, it would make it easier for the hero to defeat them. To me, it always made the hero less. Because I always wanted the villains who made the reader go, like... "Holy-!" I wanted the villains who would make you fear for these heroes. I want you to be afraid for your favorite characters. The whole point of this book is about fear. And so I wanted to stack the deck as high as I could. I wanted people to put the book down and say, “they’re dead,” but with an anticipating smile.

NRAMA: You stacked this deck pretty high, Geoff. You turn to that last page and the Anti-Monitor's there! That was totally a “Holy-!” moment. You kept that under wraps -- we got no hint he was involved. Big surprise.

GJ: Yeah. You know, the unfortunate thing is that with solicitations being three months ahead and with the internet and the competition out there, it's extremely difficult to keep things under wraps and often you can’t or the book gets underordered. I don't think we -- well, we obviously talked about Sinestro Corps, but I don't think we pushed it too hard. Most people ordered it as they would any other Green Lantern issues. Anyway, the Kyle thing started to leak out about a week before the book hit, but I was actually thinking, "OK, their eyes will be on something else, they’ll be so focused on that, that last page will still be a surprise and have impact."

NRAMA: Oh it had impact, all right. But how in the world will the heroes defeat this group, Geoff?

GJ: ...

NRAMA: Uh ... Geoff?

GJ: [laughs] I don't know!

NRAMA: [laughs] Uh oh!

GJ: They’re dead!

NRAMA: They’re screwed! That could be a problem, you know!

GJ: [laughs] We’ll see. But ... "defeat" is a relative term. I will say that.

NRAMA: Ahhh... I see.

GJ: But this is a full story. You'll get the entire story with this, and you'll see what the next level is for Green Lantern. They've got Countdown going on in the DC Universe right now, and other things like Amazons Attack and what not. Eddie [Berganza] and Adam [Schlagman] and I wanted to make this a story where we could work with people that we can collaborate with closely. So, for example, Dave Gibbons doing Green Lantern Corps and Ron Marz doing the Parallax Special [Newsarama Note – more on this coming Monday], and there are a couple other specials, one of which I’m writing myself. We're all just trying to keep it very close-knit and Green Lantern-centric, because I think the Green Lantern mythology is the best in the DC Universe. It's just so vast.

Eddie and Adam have been saviors in coordinating this whole thing and keeping the focus tight. I can’t say how important and instrumental they’ve been in making Sinestro Corps shine.

It’s also been a special issue for me because it was the last issue I worked on with my editor and friend Peter Tomasi. He went out with a bang, didn’t he? We worked together a long time.

NRAMA: And you and Ethan have been working on this for a long time, haven't you? I remember you talking about it in Toronto at the Comic Book Expo last September.

GJ: Yeah. Ethan and I, whenever we get together, we have a really great time, and I'm really proud of the stuff we do together. You know, we started with Flash: Iron Heights and then Rebirth and a handful of issues of Green Lantern, like the Hector Hammond one, and the Batman one, and the Shark. There were some really great issues. We just really work well together.

And so when this story came up, I didn't want to just launch it with a single Green Lantern issue. I thought it was important to really establish everything and put everything on the table, and kick off the story with a bang, [laughs] so to speak. And having Ethan design the Sinestro Corps and come on board so we can work together -- we always tend to have those great three-hour conversations about things. I remember when I first told him about the emotional spectrum and the ideas I had about peeling back the layers of the Green Lantern Corps. His mind was blown and we talked for hours. And then he'd blow my mind with his ideas for certain Sinestro Corps members. He is a genius. The subtle things he does in keeping that Parallax symbol everywhere. It's in places people haven't even seen. They'll have to look at the book again. And if you look at Ion, the creature has the Green Lantern symbol organically in it.

NRAMA: Yeah, it's on the creature’s back – the circle and the lines.

GJ: Yeah. Ethan’s just a genius. And to answer your question, we worked on this and talked about it since well over a year or year-and-a-half ago. Every time we work together, there's some magic there. And I'm really happy with that. And I'm really looking forward to our next project.

NRAMA: You already know what your next project with Ethan is?

GJ: Yep. And that said, beyond this one-shot, Ivan Reis is doing an amazing job. Green Lantern #21 is stunning. It's his best work so far. He's on a level with Ethan where his level of detail and his line work and his angles and power and energy makes Green Lantern an amazing looking book. I'd love to see an Absolute Green Lantern just for Ivan's work. Just to make it that big. They took the spread in issue #13 and made it 60 x 20 last year in San Diego, and even blown up, it looked beautiful. It just held up. He's a pro and in all honesty, I wouldn’t want anyone else drawing the monthly book because, quite frankly, Ivan was born for Green Lantern.

NRAMA: You sound like you’re happy with the team you have in place.

GJ: We have a great team. And Moose has been doing an amazing job on colors. He’s the link on this one-shot along with me because he's been on the Green Lantern title. He’s the unsung hero of our Corps. The book wouldn’t look nearly as good without him.

NRAMA: And you had a “Tales of the Sinestro Corps” back-up story about Sinestro in this one-shot, drawn by Green Lantern Corps writer Dave Gibbons.

GJ: Yeah, I've got to give Gibbons props. We wanted to do Sinestro Corps back-ups in the title, and there was one for Sinestro. I thought it was important that people know where his character is coming from, beyond just seeing him in the book. I wanted to show a little interaction between him and Hal when they were both Green Lanterns. Gibbons is obviously a classic Green Lantern artist, and he's writing the Corps, which has been amazing, so we've been teaming up on these back-ups with Lyssa Drak narrating the Tales of the Sinestro Corps. If you read Rebirth, and you read that origin story, it's literally happening within Rebirth #5 as a flashback. You see it from a different angle. You see it from Sinestro's point of view.

NRAMA: And that fits in with what you said earlier about this being an entry-level issue that could introduce someone to the Green Lantern mythos.

GJ: Yeah. Again, just like we designed Action Comics Annual to have a lot of different stories and be a primer for Superman, we wanted this to be a primer for Green Lantern. Obviously, there's not a ton of stories in it like there were in the Action Annual, but to have this extra back-up on Sinestro -- I thought that was really important.

And I love that you get to the end and you go, "Oh my god!!" And then you turn the page, and you have this narrator going, "Why are you still here?" [laughs]

NRAMA: [laughs] Yeah! She's like ... you want another story?

GJ: Yeah, and that was fun. That's important. This is all about making the comics fun and exciting to pick up and about universe building.

NRAMA: And how much longer does this storyline go in Green Lantern?

GJ: It goes through issue #25, but its implications obviously play into Green Lantern and Green Lantern Corps for a long time to come.

NRAMA: And it's in both the Green Lantern and Green Lantern Corps titles, but it's not a crossover, right? You don't have to buy both books.

GJ: You don't have to buy both books. Again, we've been really careful with how we do this storyline. You can read just Green Lantern, you can read just Green Lantern Corps, or you can read both. We're going to deal with different aspects of the war. There are also a handful of specials.

NRAMA: Geoff, I think you might have another one of those hits on your hands here.

GJ: Well, I know it was an expensive book at $4.99. And I'm glad people tried it out. And I'm glad that people seem to really like it. It's a big story, obviously, and it's going to be a lot of fun. There aren’t a lot of superheroes that can stand toe-to-toe with the Green Lanterns. We’re out to prove that.

[SeamusMcClernan]

Gotta get to my LCS.

[Jomma]

I see now why the monitors were saying Kyle was abnormality. He was destine to be the next parallax. However, it does raise the question why didn't the monitors dealt with Kyle before he became Ion?

[steven_eks]

Pound for pound--even with the price tag and the Marauders coming back--this book was simply amazing.

The best book to hit shelves this week--X-Men #200 is a close second.

RUN and FIGHT for a copy of this book.

Steve

[KyleV]

So I didn't read Rebirth, but what was the explanation for Hal becoming the Spectre? The Parallax thing seems to be going in an interesting direction.

[Skyrider]

Hm, well that shoots my original Blue Beetle theory out, but it certainly seems like the colors break down as such:

Red: Hatred
Orange: Avarice
Yellow: Fear
Green: Willpower
Blue: Hope (or compassion)
Indigo: Compassion (or hope)
Violet: Love.

[Gservo]

This story bought a tear to my eye
LANTERN FIGHT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Originally Posted by Skyrider

Hm, well that shoots my original Blue Beetle theory out, but it certainly seems like the colors break down as such:

Red: Hatred
Orange: Avarice
Yellow: Fear
Green: Willpower
Blue: Hope (or compassion)
Indigo: Compassion (or hope)
Violet: Love.

WHAT IF BLUE IS ANOTHER ENEMY, AND THE BLUE BEETLE IS THE HERALD, The rings are scared of the blue beetle for a reason...

[rdrsfn82]

This is so great. I can't wait to see this story play out and I can't wait to see the other groups come into play as well. Amazing book.

[mdg1]

I'd say Anger, not Avarice. After all...

"Fear leads to anger.... anger leads to hate..."

[ChristineEd]

Still no explanation for why he decided to trash Kyle like this.

[Speedball93]

I just hope that the one shots and specials aren't all 4.99 or I am gonna have to sit this one out. 64 pages for 4.99 is a fair price, but that doesn't make it any easier on the wallet. I am loving what they are doing with GL right now. I know that Kyle will not stay as Parallax, but it should be an interesting journey for him.

[Evilomar]

This was a fantastic beginning with the last page that made my jaw drop and that hasn't happened in a long time.

[vbartilucci]

I had a flash of how the seven emotions have a parallel to the Endless...

Red - Hate - Destruction
Orange - Confusion - Delerium
Yellow - Fear - Despair
Green - Willpower - Dream
Blue - Freedom - Destiny
Indigo - Calm (resolve?) - Death
Violet - Love - Desire

Aplogies if that's been posited already.

[Speedball93]

Originally Posted by mdg1

I'd say Anger, not Avarice. After all...

"Fear leads to anger.... anger leads to hate..."

hate leads to suffering hooohooo!

[John [>H]]

The special was a fantastic way to launch the story - between this and the upcoming Messiah Complex from Marvel I'm finding myself more interested in the "secondary" events than what publishers are really pushing, such as Countdown and WWH. This in't just because I find the concepts and stories being explored in Endangered Species/Messiah Complex and especially the Sinestro Corps (although that is the biggest factor, I'm fascinated by the "spectrum of emotions" theme - it's like reading an Arthur C. Clarke book) it's the format they're being presented in - apart from a starting one shot, and a very small number of specials, they are all contained within regular monthly books. No Frontline, or enormous truckloads of tie-ins, no four extra full price books a month that in some places repeat what you've already seen in other titles. And, come on, "like Star Wars meets the X-Files," that's just beautiful.

Props to Geoff and his team for some superb work - I'm in for the duration.

[xomanowarfan]

hmm, this story seems to be getting interesting. I might have to jump on this one...

[worldsfinest]

GJ: Sure. I will say, you've seen three. And Blue Beetle and the power of the Reach is not related to it, though Blue Beetle is one of the very few books that will touch on Sinestro Corps.

DC sales are down and falling across the board and they are just worring about pushing up sales for the legacy replacement failure books

[Johnny Smith]

Book of the week!

There's no stopping DC now!

[Uchiha_Prodigy]

Originally Posted by Jomma

I see now why the monitors were saying Kyle was abnormality. He was destine to be the next parallax. However, it does raise the question why didn't the monitors dealt with Kyle before he became Ion?

Because Kyle became Ion a few years before IC.

[little kon-el]

Originally Posted by Skyrider

Hm, well that shoots my original Blue Beetle theory out, but it certainly seems like the colors break down as such:

Red: Hatred
Orange: Avarice
Yellow: Fear
Green: Willpower
Blue: Hope (or compassion)
Indigo: Compassion (or hope)
Violet: Love.

Here's what I think with Lantern's we've already seen:

Yellow = Fear = Sinestro Corps
Green: Willpower = Green Lantern Corps
Violet: Love = Star Sapphire

and here's what I think we will see:

Orange = Shame = The Controller's Effigy Corps
Blue = Sadness = Cobalt Blue's Diamond that feeds off of pity and sadness
Purple = Anger = The purple rage diamonds of Eclipso

- little kon-el

[Iron Monkey]

GJ: "Of course. And you know, I wanted to stack the deck against the Green Lanterns with a big unified group. One thing I always hated in comics was arguing villains, because if you had a group of villains who argued, it would make it easier for the hero to defeat them. To me, it always made the hero less. Because I always wanted the villains who made the reader go, like... "Holy-!" I wanted the villains who would make you fear for these heroes. I want you to be afraid for your favorite characters. The whole point of this book is about fear. And so I wanted to stack the deck as high as I could. I wanted people to put the book down and say, “they’re dead,” but with an anticipating smile."

My reaction exactly.

[CYOTI]

Somebody should tell Geoff Johns that modern science retconned the color spectrum back to six.

[Kent Horton]

GJ: Sure. I will say, you've seen three. And Blue Beetle and the power of the Reach is not related to it, though Blue Beetle is one of the very few books that will touch on Sinestro Corps.

Grrrr! Curse you for making us not as smart as we thought we were!

Originally Posted by Gservo

WHAT IF BLUE IS ANOTHER ENEMY, AND THE BLUE BEETLE IS THE HERALD, The rings are scared of the blue beetle for a reason...

It's already been explained in the Blue Beetle series why the rings have issues with the Beetle.

Originally Posted by worldsfinest

DC sales are down and falling across the board and they are just worring about pushing up sales for the legacy replacement failure books

Or, they realize that title that's better than most things DC is publishing right now deserves more exposure.
Not to mention that the Reach and the Guardians are enemies.

Originally Posted by little kon-el

Here's what I think with Lantern's we've already seen:

Yellow = Fear = Sinestro Corps
Green: Willpower = Green Lantern Corps
Violet: Love = Star Sapphire

and here's what I think we will see:

Orange = Shame = The Controller's Effigy Corps
Blue = Sadness = Cobalt Blue's Diamond that feeds off of pity and sadness
Purple = Anger = The purple rage diamonds of Eclipso

- little kon-el

Errr, Sadness and Anger aren't exactly positive emotions, which are what Blue and Indigo fall on the side of.

Originally Posted by CYOTI

Somebody should tell Geoff Johns that modern science retconned the color spectrum back to six.

And that matters why?

[Dalarsco]

Originally Posted by John [>H]

The special was a fantastic way to launch the story - between this and the upcoming Messiah Complex from Marvel I'm finding myself more interested in the "secondary" events than what publishers are really pushing, such as Countdown and WWH. This in't just because I find the concepts and stories being explored in Endangered Species/Messiah Complex and especially the Sinestro Corps (although that is the biggest factor, I'm fascinated by the "spectrum of emotions" theme - it's like reading an Arthur C. Clarke book) it's the format they're being presented in - apart from a starting one shot, and a very small number of specials, they are all contained within regular monthly books. No Frontline, or enormous truckloads of tie-ins, no four extra full price books a month that in some places repeat what you've already seen in other titles. And, come on, "like Star Wars meets the X-Files," that's just beautiful.

Props to Geoff and his team for some superb work - I'm in for the duration.

Are you reading Annihilation? It's really very much like Sinstreo Corps War. It's the same kind of epic crossover.

[vbartilucci]

Originally Posted by CYOTI

Somebody should tell Geoff Johns that modern science retconned the color spectrum back to six.

Are these the same scientists that demoted Pluto?

This is all connected to how they want to make schoolbooks smaller becuase the poor children are getting backaches. They're just removing certain facts at random.

This is an offense to our threefathers who founded this nation....