Green Lantern Corps: Recharge

'Green Lantern Corps: Recharge was a five-issue, monthly comic book limited series that was published by DC Comics from November 2005 to March 2006. The series was written by Geoff Johns and Dave Gibbons and illustrated by Patrick Gleason. The series starred several members of the Green Lantern Corps, a fictional intergalactic police force in the DC Universe, and was one of two follow-ups (the other being a fourth volume of Green Lantern, with Hal Jordan as the main character) to the mini-series Rebirth, which had been published earlier in 2005.

A monthly ongoing Green Lantern Corps debuted in June 2006, the first such monthly series since 1988.

Backstory

In 1994, DC Comics published the controversial story Emerald Twilight which established Hal Jordan as the supervillain Parallax and introducing a single Green Lantern for our universe, Kyle Rayner. In 2005, Jordan was redeemed and resurrected in the miniseries Rebirth. Rebirth, along with the subsequent new volume of the Green Lantern monthly series, returned Jordan to the status of “star” Green Lantern of Earth. It also returned former Lantern officer Guy Gardner to the ranks of the Corps.

Synopsis

The Guardians of the Universe have summoned Guy Gardner and Kyle Rayner to Oa, amidst a massive recruitment drive of 3,600 new Green Lanterns. Among the new recruits are Korugarian neurosurgeon Soranik Natu. Because of Korugar’s unfortunate history with the evil Green Lantern Sinestro,...
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