| WHAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN! - DC'S ROUND ROBIN 2022 |
Four proposals with characters from the Green Lantern mythos
Though only two Green Lantern titles, two other titles would have Lantern-related characters in varying degrees.
Voting for the first round of the tournament opened on March 29, 2022 at 12:15 PM Eastern today, and ran through April 3rd. Round 2 voting began on April 5th and overall voting running through May 17th. Voting took place on DC Comics Twitter, DC Comics Instagram, and on the DC Universe Infinite message boards.
KID FLASH: THE SPEED OF FEAR
Written by Brandon Easton, art by Travis Mercer.
REVERSE-FLASH melds with PARALLAX in an unprecedented combination of the Speed Force and the fear-based yellow power ring to create a deadly SPEED RING to shatter OA's central Green Lantern battery. A confused and isolated Kid Flash (Wallace West) must chase Thawne across a variety of alien worlds to stop him and the Sinestro Corps while his own powers die because of Kid Flash's slow dis-connection with the Speed Force… KID FLASH (Wallace West) suddenly finds himself torn from the surface of the Earth in a cosmic storm caused by a tear in the Speed Force. As he investigates, Kid Flash learns that REVERSE-FLASH has merged with the dangerous entity PARALLAX—an entity composed of fear energy that powers the yellow rings of the Sinestro Corps. Their unholy combination crafts the unprecedented Speed Ring, which can generate enough interdimensional velocity to shatter the central battery of the Green Lantern Corps on OA. Somehow, Kid Flash has been caught up in the vortex of the creation of the Speed Ring, which destabilizes the walls of the Multiverse!
- Defeated "Firestorm: Fourth World Problems," 62 to 38 in Round One.
- Lost against "Suicide Squad Dark," 41 to 59 in Round Two.
UPDATE: The first six pages of this story were released with the digital version of July 2023's Superboy: The Man of Tomorrow #2/2.
SUICIDE SQUAD: DARK
Written by Zac Thompson, art by Garry Brown
A team of occult misfits and monsters, assembled by Amanda Waller and led by Vampire Batman, are forced into a mind-melting suicide mission to assassinate Earth-13's League of Shadows. Meet the occult Task Force Dof Earth-13. Field leader Vampire Batman commands a top-secret team of murderers, monsters, and demons. The magic-dampening parasites hooked into their brains keep them following orders, and the promise of freedom keeps them motivated. Thanks to the mysterious benefactor known only as Milton, Amanda Waller has built the ultimate Squad…on another Earth! She's handpicked a deranged team to topple the supernatural world of sorcery and permanent twilight. Yes, she's going to do the unthinkable. She's going to eliminate the League of Shadows…but to what end? Suicide Squad: Dark is a speculative horror story about dark Multiversal conspiracy, endangered species, and the possible end of all things. It's the dark mirror of the Suicide Squad where everything is weird and not quite as it seems. When team handler Frankenstein discovers his teammate Spore may be a reputed ecoterrorist from Earth-41, he sets in motion a series of events that quickly spin out of his control. Worse, Task Force X has few allies to help make sense of the true scope of their peril. Who is Waller taking orders from? What the hell are those worms hanging off their heads? No, really, who the **** is Milton? Vampire Batman, Frankenstein, Raven, Gorilla Grodd, Spore, Zatanna, Plasma-Man, and Sinestro are dying to find out.
- Defeated "Justice League [Redacted]," 51 to 49 in Round One.
- Defeated "Kid Flash: The Speed of Fear," 59 to 41 in Round Two.
- Defeated "Constantine & The Demon: Vacation from Hell, 49.9 to 50.1 in Round Three
- Lost to "Superboy: Man of Tomorrow," in Round Four
GREEN LANTERN: THE LIGHT AT THE END OF FOREVER
Written by Si Spurrier, art by Marco Santucci
A dark far-future. A galaxy gripped by tyranny. When an elderly farmer in a backwater system is brutalized by the latest thugs with jetpacks and jackboots to call themselves lawmen, he remembers a forgotten past. An era of champions. A cadre of noble peacekeepers, long since vanished. His name—he's sure of it—is JOHN STEWART. Whatever happened to the Green Lanterns Corps…and is it too late to reignite the light…?… A million years from now. A galaxy convulsed by violence, where godlike emperors wield unthinkable power and wage pitiless interstellar war. Here the ancient echoes of our heroic age—our DCU—lie fossilized, rendered as myth or forgotten entirely.
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- Defeated "Black Canary: When Canaries Cry," 56 to 44 in Round One.
- Defeated "DC Horror: Ghost Tour From Hell," 67 to 33 in Round Two.
- Lost against "Superboy: The Man of Tomorrow," 45 to 55 in Round Three.
UPDATE: The first six pages of this story were released with the digital version of June 2023's Superboy: The Man of Tomorrow #1/2.
GREEN LANTERN: THE BIRTH OF CONSPIRACY
Written by Scott Bryan Wilson, art by Skylar Patridge.
In 1947, three events kindled America's fascination with UFOs: the men in black, flying saucer sightings, and the Roswell crash. Three low-level government employees, tasked with monitoring superheroes, realize that one person was at all three events: the Green Lantern. He hasn't been seen since… It's 1947, and Alan Scott is part of a new breed of humans endowed with the power of gods. But he still has to work a day job, protect his personal secrets from the public, and hide his civilian identity from the government agency formed to monitor superhero activity. When he finds himself at the sites of three UFO incursions—the famous "men in black" and flying saucer sightings, and the Roswell crash—he realizes that he could lose everything. Now, as Green Lantern, imprisoned and alone on an alien planet, used as a conduit to harvest the power of the green flame, he may have to rely on three low-level government functionaries—whose job it is to spy on him—to help him put a stop to an alien genocide and hold the government accountable for hostile actions…and trust them to keep his deepest secrets secret. Scott Bryan Wilson ( Pennyworth , Batman: Gotham Nights ) and Skylar Patridge ( Wonder Woman ) make you question everything in this high-octane, conspiracy theory-drenched tale of power and patriotism at a pivotal time in American history.
- Defeated "Captain Carrot & His New Best Friend Darkseid," 67 to 33 in Round One.
- Lost against "Superboy: The Man of Tomorrow," 45 to 55 in Round Two.
UPDATE: The first six pages of this story were released with the digital version of August 2023's Superboy: The Man of Tomorrow #3/2.
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