G'nort
22 years ago - G’nort is born.
8 years ago - 14-year-old G’nort’s father manages to bribe a Green Lantern recruit to give up his ring, letting G'nort believe he was chosen to join the Green Lantern Corps. While training, he & Rogue Lantern Guy Gardner discover Thaal Sinestro's pending attack and are trapped on Qward. G'nort chooses to save Guy rather than warn the Green Lantern Corp of the pending attack, losing his chance to be a Green Lantern, but does manage to help Guy escape and help defend Oa.
5 years ago - 17-year-old G’nort becomes a collector of Green Lantern artifacts after Oa falls in Hal Jordan's attack, hoping to one day be useful.
1 year ago - 21-year-old G’nort helps Kyle Rayner relight the Power Battery with his collection of artifacts, finally joining the Green Lantern Corps and becoming a Green Lantern.
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.
How do I explain G'nort. Nevermind his existence, that's hard enough. But how to explain his appeal? He's absolutely goofy, but he came about in a particular era where that sort of thing just worked. Eighties era comics spiraled into labyrinthian nightmares of continuity spirals, or they deliberately started to deconstruct their own mythology, and this is definitely the latter.
How do I explain G'nort. Nevermind his existence, that's hard enough. But how to explain his appeal? He's absolutely goofy, but he came about in a particular era where that sort of thing just worked. Eighties era comics spiraled into labyrinthian nightmares of continuity spirals, or they deliberately started to deconstruct their own mythology, and this is definitely the latter.
G'nort's Comic HistoryG'nort's first appearance was in Justice League International #10 in 1988, right in the middle of the Millenium crossover event. More importantly, it's in the middle of J.M DeMatteis & Keith Giffen's run on the Justice League, which famously deconstructed the Justice League by making the series about humor. in this issue, Martian Manhunter is joined on a mission against the Manhunters by a team of non-leaguers including several Green Lanterns, and while there they run into G'nort, the Green Lantern of that sector, who Hal quickly explains is there entirely out of nepotism. G'nort is lazy and cowardly, clearly undeserving of his role as a Lantern. In short, he was exactly the sort of comical addition to that era's DC that writers would flock to include.
In the following few years, G'nort was a near constant appearance in DeMatteis & Giffen's stories, eventually joining their ill-fated Justice League of Antarctica. More importantly for our purposes, however, he was featured in one of the earliest arcs of the new Green Lantern series, befriending Guy Gardner as they escaped from the Qwardians anti-matter universe. As the 90's went on comic readers' tastes moved past the satirical comedy of that era, and G'nort became more of a background character, someone who could pop into any story to lend it some silliness. |
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Our G'nort StoryThere's a lot of potential silliness in including G'nort, but if we're going to use him we should really try to narrow him down to some specific story beats. First of all, the one story that features G'Nort that we all collectively really like is his adventure with Guy Gardner as prisoners of the Qwardians. It fits really neatly into our story, in an era where the Guardians are in a state of turmoil and Gardener himself is still a Rogue Lantern.
We can also keep G'nort in this story as just a lantern trainee, since having someone buy their way onto the Corp is a little diminishing. Instead, his father paid off another possible Green Lantern recruit, rigging the selection process so that G'nort believes his role is legitimate. For fun, we also decided to make G'Nort part of the group of former Lanterns who help Kyle Rayner reform the Corp, because as a collector of Lantern artifacts he has in his possession a specific macguffin they need to light the Power Battery. This would let him finally fulfill his dream of becoming a Lantern... and with this less ridiculous but still loveable take on the character, we'd love to include him. |
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