STERLING GATES ON THE ALPHA LANTERNS IN GLC - NEWSARAMA

February 10th, 2008 | by admin |

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I just love this series and what they are doing with it now. I look forward to reading two GL titles month after month.

STERLING GATES ON THE ALPHA LANTERNS IN GLC

by Vaneta Rogers
As readers were introduced to the Alpha-Lanterns in last week’s Green Lantern #27, one thing became clear: Being an Alpha-Lantern isn’t everything it’s cracked up to be.
Although it was difficult to discern exactly what was done to those members of the Green Lantern Corps who were chosen and agreed to become Alpha-Lanterns, it didn’t look pretty. And what emerged from the surgery was a strange robotic, unfeeling shell of the former Lanterns, but with a whole new type of power.
Now writer Sterling Gates will be exploring what it means to be an Alpha-Lantern in a two-part story in Green Lantern Corps beginning with this month’s issue #21. The two issues will focus on Boodikka, a member of the Corps who was among those chosen to become an Alpha-Lantern.
Introduced to the Green Lantern Corps mythos by Geoff Johns from an idea credited to Grant Morrison, the Alpha-Lanterns are part-person/part-machinery hybrids that were created by the leaders of the Green Lanterns – the Guardians of Oa. This new faction of Alpha-Lanterns serves as a sort of "internal affairs" arm for the Green Lantern Corps, and it’s been implied that they combine a lack of emotion with an internal power level beyond that of a normal ring-bearing Green Lantern.
The two issues by Gates were recently added to the Green Lantern Corps title’s schedule after the originally solicited two-part story by regular writer Peter Tomasi was shuffled to future issues. While Gates said he doesn’t know why the change was made to the fill-in issues, he’s obviously happy to get the chance to flex his writing muscles again after writing a Tales of the Sinestro Corps back-up story last year, as well his work on December’s Green Lantern/Sinestro Corps Secret Files issue.
Newsarama talked to Gates about his story about Boodikka as well as the role of the Alpha-Lanterns – and we found out these new Lanterns will play what Gates is calling a "major" part in Final Crisis.