Green Lantern: Rise of the Third Army Author: Geoff Johns | Language: English | ISBN:
B00DCETLHE | Format: PDF
Green Lantern: Rise of the Third Army Description
The universe is in shambles and the Guardians are the cause in this epic from GREEN LANTERN #13-16, GREEN LANTERN CORPS #13-16, GREEN LANTERN CORPS ANNUAL #1, RED LANTERNS #13-16 and GREEN LANTERNS: NEW GUARDIANS #13-16! The mysterious Third Army has risen across the cosmos like a plague, destroying everything in its path—and Hal Jordan and Sinestro are nowhere to be found. Now, it’s up to new Green Lantern Simon Baz to become the hero that the Corps needs!
- File Size: 259009 KB
- Print Length: 416 pages
- Publisher: DC Comics (September 10, 2013)
- Sold by: Amazon Digital Services, Inc.
- Language: English
- ASIN: B00DCETLHE
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As with other universe shattering events under Green Lantern architect Geoff Johns in almost 9 years, the mythology of entire Emotional Spectrum has lead to some high points. Sinestro Corps, Blackest Night, and War of the Green Lanterns have all been large and successful events to further the GL tapestry. Now we have the penultimate arc before Geoff Johns and his fellow GL writers leave Hal Jordan and friends behind, that is the current event, Rise of the Third Army.
RISE OF THE THIRD ARMY collects the following in order:
Green Lantern #13 and #14
Green Lantern Corp #13 - #15
Green Lantern: New Guardians #13 - 16
Red Lanterns #13 - #16
Green Lantern #15 and #16
Green Lantern Corp #16
Green Lantern Corp ANNUAL #1
To refresh your memory, since the beginning of the New 52, the Guardians have gotten tired of dealing with the disobedience of Hal Jordan and their current Lanterns since the events of Sinestro Corp War. Since the Guardians failed with their first army billions of years, the Manhunters, because of a glitch in their software. Then came the living beings that are the current second GL Corp, but their emotion and free will has gotten out of hand. So the Guardians set into motion events for the entire GL Corps and its Earth lanterns (Hal, Guy, John, and Kyle) methods to distract or take them out of the way of their grand plan of creating a third army that has no emotions, free will, and free thought.
The third army are faceless beings who are not only difficult to kill, but once they touch a living being long enough, and become another mindless monster under the control of the Guardians. The only ones who can stop this threat are out of the picture.
"The Rise of the Third Army" was originally spread across Green Lantern Annual #1, Green Lantern #13-16, Green Lantern Corps #13-16, Green Lantern: New Guardians #13-16, Red Lanterns #13-16, Purple Lanterns (sorry, strike that), and Green Lantern Corps Annual #1. The individual stories are repackaged into some semblance of order in this volume.
As the creepy blue-skinned Guardians descend into madness, they create a big blue-skinned mouthless creature and task it with assembling an army by assimilating its members ("one mind, one flesh") with a view to creating absolute order via the destruction of free will. To do this, the creature and its minions literally rip the hearts out of people (for reasons that go unexplained but probably have something to do with the coolness of the resulting gory artwork). The creature seeks out rednecks on Earth (and perhaps rednecks on other planets), either because they are in plentiful supply or easy to assimilate, having not much brainpower to begin with. Cut to Washington where Barack Obama is wondering where all the Green Lanterns have gone, a question made relevant by the news that suspected terrorist Simon Baz (who is clearly guilty of street racing) has been busted out of Guantanamo by a Green Lantern ring that is apparently offended by illegal detentions. The ring gives Baz a GL uniform but a ridiculously muscular version of the Justice League wants to strip it from him.
The story is chock full of Lanterns -- the entire Rainbow Coalition of Lanterns is represented -- as well as other characters from the colorful Lantern universe.
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