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Warning : spoilers forward forGreen Lantern # 5 !
In the recent issue ofGreen Lantern , the loss leader of the Yellow Lanterns -Thaal Sinestro- evidence he ’s DC Comics ' most successful villain . While most villains are constantly combat ( and losing to ) their Heron without end , Sinestro has it made , leading an unbelievably luxurious life on his own planet known as New Korugar . The Green Lanterns Corps has been depowered in late issue , with hundred of heroes dying in the backwash , but even before their destruction , Sinestro ’s corps and even his satellite ’s political condition had already been acknowledge by the United Planets .
At the beginning of DC ’s newGreen Lanternseries , the Green Lantern Corps watched over a summit for the newfangled United Planets , a coalition of like - minded Earth that care to come in together in the name of repose and successfulness . However , the meeting resulted in the character assassination of one of the Guardians . Not only that , but the Green Lanterns ' Central Power Power Battery was destroyed , depleting nearly every Green Lantern of their band ’s charge , while potentially murdering the rest of the Guardians as well . Now , Green Lantern Jo Mullein and the young Keli Quintela are among the few who still have power in their severally alone tintinnabulation . However , when it ’s revealed thatSinestro is the most potential culpritfor the attack on the Green Lantern ’s world of Oa , Keli heads for New Korugar in a rage before Jo can even blink .
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This brings things toGreen Lantern # 5,fromwriter Geoffrey Thorne with artists Tom Raney , Marco Santucci , and Andy MacDonald , seeing Sinestro living the high-pitched biography on New Korugar . last in a golden tower as the beloved swayer of an intact satellite , Sinestro does n’t even put out to deign when Keli arrives , leaving the engagement to hiselite warrior in the Sinestro Corps . While Lex Luthor can never truly defeat Superman and the Reverse - Flash is obsessed with torture the incorruptible Barry Allen , jar with the Green Lanterns is n’t the exclusive focusing of Sinestro ’s biography , and his day to Clarence Shepard Day Jr. existence - even before his enemies were rendered powerless - is one of hard - won comfort and power .
This is why Sinestro does n’t forthwith play when Keli Quintela ’s Teen Lantern round his public . He has an entire U. S. Army to deal with her , and she ’s ab initio alone . Despite her immense power with her unique power gauntlet , Sinestro seems contented to keep . That being articulate , a cryptical and hooded Yellow Lantern ends up shutting down Keli ’s mind before she can hurt herself or others with her volatile power , aid Simon Baz break away New Korugar with Keli once he arrives to save her in his ownGreen Lantern version of Iron Man ’s armor .
Unlike the Joker , who pass much of his aliveness pin down in Arkham Asylum , or Black Manta , eaten up by his rage at Aquaman , Sinestro has steadily engage his goals and - while he ’s give out time and again against Hal Jordan - found the success and power he craves . This is exactly why it ’s unbelievable that he ’s the one responsible for the attack on Oa , despite preceding malevolence towards theGuardians of the Universe . Why would Sinestro jeopardize the position he ’s secured for his Corps among the United Planets , respected enough to utter against Oa ’s inclusion?Sinestrohas the will and cruelty to change state on his former ally in theGreen Lantern Corps , but he also has a level of success most other DC baddie can only stargaze of , and none of that was under menace , suggesting Keli will have to look elsewhere for the culprit .
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