Green Lantern: 10 Greatest Characters (And 1 That Sucked)
Green Lantern was first created in 1940 by Bill Finger and Martin Nodell and even though the concept was radically changed in the late 50s, the comic has grown increasingly popular in the decades that followed, arguably hitting its peak within the past few years, thanks to Geoff Johns and his own expansion of the mythology/universe. Johns' first course of action was to bring back the Silver Age Green Lantern, Hal Jordan, the standard for all Corps members to follow. Post-rebirth, Johns kicked off what may be one of the biggest and deepest expansions of any comic book in history - from the introduction of new Lantern Corps' (each relating to a color of the spectrum and assigning an emotion to each) to the hugely successful "Blackest Night," "Green Lantern" (and its family of Lantern books) have either introduced or claimed characters from DC's storied history and made them their own. This list is an attempt to round-up the greatest, most relevant heroes and villains to grace the pages of Green Lantern...