Chaselon
36 years ago - Chaselon is born (crystalizes) on Barrio III
28 years ago - 8-year-old Chaselon becomes a hand of the Queen, a military/police officer.
21 years ago - 15-year-old Chaselon is chosen to join the Green Lantern Corp.
The extended membership of the Green Lantern Corp comes from a few different sources, but interestingly, those same sources all seem to happen in cycles. There are characters introduced more or less as background characters who have a line here and there but who gain popularity because of some quirk of their design, there are characters introduced in their own standalone stories whose role may or may not expand over time but who remain popular because that original story was so clever, and there are characters that are actually introduced with the intention of playing a role in the main continuity Green Lantern story. These different character sources repeat through the various eras of Green Lantern Corp mythology, resulting in a pretty deep roster of potential characters for us to go over.
Chaselon is one of the oldest of the alien Green Lanterns. He's part of that old guard of weird aliens added just to highlight how strange a galaxy full of Lanterns can be. He's been around forever, but his main contribution has been his look.
Chaselon is one of the oldest of the alien Green Lanterns. He's part of that old guard of weird aliens added just to highlight how strange a galaxy full of Lanterns can be. He's been around forever, but his main contribution has been his look.
Chaselon's StoryWay way way back in Green Lantern #9 in 1960, the very first gathering of alien Lanterns happened, introducing a whole crowd of Lanterns beyond the already established Tomar Re. Each of them was clearly introduced just to make them as strange as possible. Each of them had their own little blurb, and Chaselon's read; "Green Lantern of Barrio III - A planet of crystal life-forms, ultra-sensitive, with 13 senses, instead of the usual 6 of humans!"
Not all of the lanterns introduced here would continue to appear in the various group shots of Green Lanterns, but Chaselon was a regular occurance across. When Hal started rebuilding the Corp, he was one of the earliest recruits., He had a bigger role in the Geof Johns era as one of the first 'Alpha Lanterns' and continues to appear all the way to the modern era. We don't have any specific stories we were looking to tell with Chaselon, but he's absolutely going to be part of out Corp. |