artist: Steve Ellis
David Gallaher apparently comes from DC's short-lived Zuda experiment. It's good the company finally remembered discovering him, because he proves a deft hand in this effort. He and frequent collaborator Steve Ellis, actually.
Otherwise, the story is all about Guy Gardner (aren't they all?). I'm convinced that the average comic book fan still doesn't know or even care that there is and have long been more than one claimant to the superhero persona "Green Lantern." Guy's journey was a particularly complicated one. Fans who know anything substantial about Green Lantern know Guy less for being a Green Lantern than for his brash attitude, "One punch!," and subsequent re-absorption into the mythos following Green Lantern: Rebirth, where it took his turn in Red Lanterns to stand out again (Charles Soule and Landry Q. Walker took the character to new heights, by the way, thanks to this latest turn).
Back in the day, Guy was the most luckless of Green Lanterns. Hal Jordan, the Silver Age original, was the original emerald jerk, and Guy the replacement unlucky enough to have spent most of his in-continuity time in a coma while John Stewart had his angst-ridden turn with the ring. This Convergence spin-off picks up with the Guy who was awakened by the Guardians to try and set things right. Except being a Green Lantern has never been a guarantee of such things (another unique quality to the franchise).
Guy, and John and Hal, end up trapped under the dome, like everyone else in this event. Except he's got a huge chip on his shoulder. Not the ego he'd become known for. More like a legitimate beef. He realizes he's had a raw deal all this time, and uses his time trying to set things right. The Hal he encounters is possibly the most enlightening version of that character, too, a man who became obsessed with using SETI to contact aliens (imagine if someone retroactively made Hal a UFO nut, huh?) to solve the dome dilemma.
Oh, and Guy brings attitude. He's always good for that. Gallager is another writer who takes full advantage of every storytelling opportunity Convergence affords. Makes it a pleasure all over again to be a Green Lantern fan. And now, perhaps, the uninitiated have another opportunity to find out what the rest of us already know. There is more than one Green Lantern. And this makes things very, very interesting...
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