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Green Lantern travels to the American Wild West in a masterwork new piece of Fanart DC must view. Green Lantern lives in present times, yet the idea lets one exist almost any time or age. Mike J. Becker, an artist, draws on this concept to create a Green Lantern guarding the American West of the 19th century, therefore deterring outlaw activity.
Mike Becker debuted the fanart on X, formerly Twitter. Becker mentioned it started as a commission. Becker titled the work "Green Lantern Hal Jordan, space cowboy." Hal is shown in a Wild West rendition of a Green Lantern costume sporting a green cape and cowboy hat. He holds his Lantern in his hand, while behind him a gathering of extraterrestrial people gaze in wonder.
A pillar of the DC Universe, Green Lantern at least one iteration of the character has been active since the Silver Age. Green Lantern underwent a make-over in the Silver Age, reorienting the character from a magic-based hero into high-concept science fiction. Green Lantern developed under editorial direction of Julius Schwartz as a representative of an interplanetary police agency patrolling the universe. Comprising several diverse species, the Green Lantern Corps is millennia old. Members among several people have been Hal Jordan, John Stewart, and Jessica Cruz.
Although humans have been Green Lantern Corps members, none joined before Hal Jordan. This rules out a canonical Wild West Green Lantern. Still, the DC multiverse is vast and spreading, and as the iconic Elseworlds designation makes clear, Green Lantern has several variants. Bruce Wayne picked up the Green Lantern Power Ring in Emerald Knight from 1993. He then turned into a Green Lantern/Batman mash-up. Other Elseworlds books exposed the presence of other Green Lantern varieties from all history, but none from the Wild West.
The new fanart by Mike Becker at last brings to life the cowboy Green Lantern fans did not know they needed. Combining the Green Lantern Corps with the Wild West is a creative genius since the two ideas complement one other. Just as the Green Lanterns guard far-off sectors of space, the lawmen of the Wild West roved large and barren areas. Like many lawmen, most Green Lanterns work alone. At last, Becker's work embodies the core of Hal Jordan, a modern-day cowboy with a maverick mentality.
Becker also included unfinished copies of the work for admirers to have an intimate view of his creative process. Whether it's in the shape of a short comic or a full-fledged storyline, Becker is more than qualified to realize as the artist as he is also quite gifted. A miniseries would find the Wild West Green Lantern to be ideal.