Holy Willpower! DC's Most Powerful Red Lantern is a Green Lantern!
Green Lantern Mogo Goes Rogue: A Planet-Sized Red Lantern Unleashed!
Things are about to get REALLY ugly for the Green Lantern Corps. Green Lantern Civil Corps Special #1 (written by Jeremy Adams and Phillip Kennedy Johnson, art by Salvador Larroca, colors by Luis Guerrero, and letters by Dave Sharpe) unveils a terrifying twist that leaves everyone in shock: Mogo, that legendary planet-sized Green Lantern, has been turned into an incredibly powerful Red Lantern! It changes the game completely.
The Green Lanterns are already dealing with a TON of problems because of the increasingly insane Lord Premier Thaaros; He’s attacking the Emotional Spectrum, even giving his own Lanterns the ability to tap into other powers (such as Yellow Lanterns). This has greatly weakened the ability for this group to perform effectively, and its weakened status greatly contributes to that surprising shift.
After facing down Absolute Power, the team – including Hal Jordan, John Stewart, Guy Gardner, Caolán Shepherd, and Star Sapphire Carol Ferris— are setting things straight with Thaaros. They just didn’t realize how much planning he’d already completed; setting a dangerous trap, and revealing another very surprising and unexpected change.
Kilowog's Betrayal: The Yellow Lantern's Shocking Return
This episode kicks off with another surprise: Kilowog's return! Thought dead after that Green Lantern #7 (2024) Sinestro Power Battery explosion, this powerful Lantern’s back (as seen through those earlier appearances earlier). The thing that made this encounter much more surprising and deeply shocking? He’s a Yellow Lantern! This greatly sets up this encounter because John Stewart, this formerly great ally is betrayed, with his Dark Star Ring stolen; initiating an intense and urgent situation!
Our heroes’ trip to Thanagar to expose Thaaros’s treachery fails terribly because of this event; Thaaros convinces everyone those guys are the real enemies! And what made things way worse: He's got that Dark Star Ring now and unleashes Olgrun's power on everyone. Then a battle erupts between Thaaros and his planet, and everyone is attacked! It also includes this amazingly well-done reveal for the most effective part of this plot, but you can find more from this particular point below.
Mogo’s Transformation: The Birth of DC’s Most Powerful Red Lantern
The ultimate reveal at this ending involved Thaaros’ summoning the ultimate ace up his sleeve—summoning that planet-sized Green Lantern Mogo into Thanagar's orbit. Yet he wasn’t who we expected: Instead, a crimson rage consumes Mogo making this legendary being the newly-formed, ultra powerful Red Lantern!
Red Lanterns are fearsome and unbelievably powerful; driven by immense rage that takes over, pushing those affected beings to lose themselves entirely; yet this is an absolutely perfect addition, considering that Mogo already possesses the most valuable and powerful weapon of all: his massive size, incredible strength and raw psychic abilities.
Can the Green Lanterns Hope to defeat this Ultimate Red Lantern?
This massive issue and those related changes that are hinted within these pages brings a completely massive impact and those issues created by this new change create a truly stunning reveal for what exactly could be achieved and done through an unexpectedly changed hero!
Sadly, the Green Lanterns are left helpless, still unaware of how Thaaros completely converted his army from other shades; This changed hero demonstrates exactly how these things really can change at any moment— a devastating event that will surely continue the ongoing conflict between the two factions, further demonstrating how the war between these factions greatly continues. Given this massive increase in strength–with the planet Mogo being effectively uncontainable given his newly acquired powers; the Green Lanterns and Thanagar face absolute annihilation by the most powerful Red Lantern ever to have existed! We simply have to ask one ultimate question: Will there even be hope for a potential win against an uncontainable enemy of that power? This plot opens the stage for the next chapter of Green Lantern’s own continued journey and future interactions.
Conclusion: An Unexpected and Totally Epic Twist!
Green Lantern Civil Corps Special #1 delivers a devastating punch and leaves fans in total shock; making that relatively smaller addition one of the greatest plot points created recently! Mogo’s transformation into the strongest Red Lantern ever? Game changer. It's unexpected and completely adds layers to what could possibly be achieved and it’s not the end – it's the beginning of a new war that is extremely exciting, intriguing for those already long-time Green Lantern fans and it totally establishes this exciting next storyline; and this issue promises major upheaval and intensely difficult conflicts to follow; adding tremendous amounts of excitement!
