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DC Comics recently volunteer a fashion to clear up the confusion of get multiple heroes named " Green Lantern . " While there are a handful of heroes who bind out as the “ definitive ” Green Lantern , the name is technically just a claim given to any member of theGreen Lantern Corps . If theGreen Lanternbooks are n’t rivet on one or two friend , it can get a slight hard to key out one Green Lantern from the others , particularly for newer referee .
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In the midst of this particularly helter-skelter geological period , Green Lantern # 6 , written by Geoffrey Thorne and pencilled by Tom Raney and Marco Santucci , uses unique codenames to mitigate the Emerald Knights ' nominate confusion . Keli , the newest Green Lantern , is already often called Teen Lantern , but in this issue , Simon and Jo get some new names as well . At the beginning , Jo is in conversation with the United Order , who name to Simon as “ Broken Lantern , ” since the Oa attack left his ring destroyed and his correct arm injured . Jo is also afterward refer to by Sinestro as “ Last Lantern , ” in reference to how her self - charging mogul ring make her one of the only lantern able to attend to the way they commonly do .
The names undulate well off the tongue and give the reader a adept sense of what the Lanterns ’ places in the Corps are right now . Simon personally takes offence to his , but it is reminiscent of his current situation and the mechanical devices he now employ to stay in action . Jo ’s is especially skillful , in how it muse her purpose to leadthe Green Lantern Corps .
The issue , however , is that these are n’t really “ codenames ” – they ’re uncomplicated descriptor and nicknames mentioned in an off - hand fashion . And there ’s no singing whether or not they ’ll become permanent . Jo may not be the “ Last Lantern ” very long , and is n’t the only Emerald Knight with a office ring right now anyway . And if Simon ’s weapon recovers and/or he gets a newfangled power doughnut , it would n’t necessarily make sense to call him “ Broken Lantern . ”
Still , it is a gracious thought to produce way to differentiate the Green Lanterns aside from their legal names . These young sobriquet could be great for make characters more recognisable within team book like the currentGreen Lanternseries , but also for titling solo books . A book titledThe Last Lanternwould in all probability be more memorable than something likeJo Mullein : Green Lantern , and this could give eachGreen Lanternmore staying exponent . If the codenames become popular , perhaps in time similar name will be assigned to the rest of theGreen Lantern Corps .
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