![]() Now, in Green Lantern Corps #18, aka Leonard Part 6 – er, Wrath of the First Lantern Part 6, the emotional vampire known as The First Lantern has tracked down Stewart and Yrra Cyrril – the last survivor of Xanshi, formerly Fatality, an anger-maven obsessed with killing Stewart, and currently a Star Sapphire who has formed some ill-defiend bond with the man she was once determined to murder. Thus, it's easy to see why some might consider John Stewart an unlikeable hardass and a fuck-up. After all that, one of the first things he had to do in the New 52 was kill a fellow Green Lantern who was about to break under the torture from The Keepers and let Oa be destroyed – and thus, he was put on trial for his life. Stewart was forced to actively kill another planet – this time the sentient Green Lantern world Mogo – in order to prevent the Black Lanterns from taking it over and ruining everything. That being the only thing anybody remembers about him, it played right into the "War of the Green Lanterns" storyline, right before the New 52 reboot. There's also the fact that the most enduring legacy of Stewart's is his failure to stop the destruction of the planet Xanshi because the doomsday device was yellow, which is epic, but also sad in that the original story was very poorly put together – complete with Martian Manhunter encouraging him to commit suicide after the fact, and then making an almost hilarious fart-face when he didn't. Ernie Hudson is the motherfuckin' man.įolks probably don't know this, but I'm fairly sure that the whole Marine aspect of Stewart's history was a product of the cartoon, and it was later just incorporated into his history, much like Harley Quinn and the origin of Mr. I'll take the no-nonsense guy who does his thankless job and doesn't make a big goddamned deal about it. Let the rest of the world fellate Hal Jordan as The Greatest and Best Green Lantern That God Ever Gave Man On This Earth. Outside of Kilowog, that is, because you have to love a big burly alien who calls people 'poozers.' Guy Gardner's an amusing jackass, and Kyle Rayner is the emo introspective guy, they're all well and good. The Justice League animated series is one of the key factors in getting me to pay attention to DC Comics with greater regularity, and thus, I have a predilection for John as my go-to GL. The guy who some consider the Winston Zeddemore of Green Lanterns. For all my bashing of Hal Jordan as Douche Supreme of the Green Lantern Corps, I'm sure I'll take an equal amount of shinola for my favorite GL being John Stewart – the guy in the background of all the group photos who only steps into the fore when he has to do something awful for the greater good.
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