Mogo

45,000 BCE - Mogo first achieves sentience.

7000 BCE - Mogo is chosen to join the Green Lantern Corps.

1820 - Mogo duels with Bolphunga the Unrelenting.

5 years ago - Mogo is moved into the Paths Beyond by Kilowog using the Starheart to protect the Guardians of Oa.

1 year ago - Mogo returns with Kilowog and the Guardians of Oa when the Oan Battery is lit.

now - Mogo & Ch'p work together to solve a murder. They're assigned as partners.

2998 - Mogo returns from a mysterious dormancy by the Legion. He starts a new Lantern Corp.

3006 - Mogo sends Jordana Gardner to join the Legion.

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.

Mogo is at once one of the most obscure members of the Lantern Corp and also one of its most popular. His (do planets have genders) original story is by far one of the most beloved short stories of a classic era, but as time has gone on his role has evolved and grown. It falls to us to decide exactly how much we plan to utilize this almost completely unique character.

Mogo's Comic History

Mogo isn't the first Sentient Planet character; Marvel character Ego, the Living Planet debuted in 1966 in Thor, a creation of Stan Lee and Jack Kirby, and before that there's a classic DC villain called Yggardis that fought Adam Strange in the pages of a Mystery in Space issue called "Attack from the Tentacle World" back in 1960. By comparison, Mogo is a much more recent character, debuting in a back up story in Green Lantern #188 in 1985.

The short story "Mogo Doesn't Socialize" was a quick back-up created by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons a year before they would work together to create the Watchmen. In this story Tomar Re is telling Arisia a parable from the Book of Oa about Mogo, one of the most secretive Green Lanterns. In the parable, an intergalactic bounty hunter named Bolphunga the Unrelenting tracks the elusive Mogo across a jungle planet for months before he finally realizes exactly why he can't find him. It's short, and loveable, and immediately established just how widespread and strange the Corp can be.

A modern reader would probably be shocked to see just how few appearances Mogo made before the Geoff Johns era brought him back in a big way and made him a major plot point in a lot of his Green Lanterns stories.

Our Mogo Story

Since we're building out the full timeline, we actually went all the way back to when Mogo first gains sentience. We obviously want to include his original story, since it's one of those moments in comics that are just pure fun. Of course we also want to find ways to use Mogo that reflect his huge power and how unique he is among the rest of the Corp. We introduced the idea that Kilowog would use the Starheart to fold Mogo into the magical Paths Beyond as a way to protect the Guardians during the fall of Oa. Their later arrival would be a huge beacon to the galaxy that the Lanterns have returned. Second, Mogo is actually a great way for us to re-introduce the Green Lanterns into the 30th century world of the Legion of Superheroes.

Also... we've added that Mogo and Ch'p become partners, and work together to solve a murder. This is entirely because these are my wife's two favorite Green Lanterns, and it makes her happy to imagine them working together.

Allies & Teams

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