Power Ring
Power Ring by Craig Cermak
18 years ago (dream realm memory) - Harold Jordan is present when his test pilot cousin Hal Jordan is killed by a bolt from space. He is chosen by Vulthoom, the alien entity that has infected the Green Lantern's ring. He becomes Power Ring.
16 years ago (dream realm memory) - Power Ring, Jack B Quick, Scream Queen, Sea King, and Martian Maneater come together as the Crime Syndicate to defeat the formation of the Justice Underground.
12 years ago - The Justice League are attacked in their dreams by Doctor Destiny. They follow him back into the Dream Dome defeating him and disabling his technology. The Dream Dome builds a dream reflection of the world and populates it with nightmare mirrors of the Justice League. They remember their own history, coming together as the Crime Syndicate and dominating their world.
9 years ago - Morpheus returns to the Dreaming. While reclaiming his realm, he disabled the Dream Dome, the technology built by Garrett Sanford while lost in the Dreaming. The dream reflection of the world that is home to the Crime Syndicate, no longer protected by the Dome, is set adrift in its own corner of the Dreaming.
7 years ago - The Crime Syndicate confirms that their world is in fact merely a dream reflection of the real world. They escape, and attack the Justice League to take their place. The League is defeated, and has to regroup. They are assisted in finally defeating the Crime Syndicate by Owlman.
The Crime Syndicate is really one collective storytelling entity. While Grant Morrison's take on these characters did give them a little more backstory, the point has never really been for any of them to have a lot of story of their own, so making character specific timelines becomes kind of beside the point.
Because of the way we did this, with the Syndicate being dream reflections of the League, the timelines of these characters are deliberately pretty esoteric. These characters remember a past, and that past is a sort of mirror universe mélange of the histories of the characters they are reflections of, but none of those histories actually happened, so we they're not going to link out to the timeline at large. They only exist on these pages.
Because of the way we did this, with the Syndicate being dream reflections of the League, the timelines of these characters are deliberately pretty esoteric. These characters remember a past, and that past is a sort of mirror universe mélange of the histories of the characters they are reflections of, but none of those histories actually happened, so we they're not going to link out to the timeline at large. They only exist on these pages.
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Power Ring's StoryThe original Power Ring was introduced in an era when Green Lantern's ring operated more like a wishing stone, allowing him to do literally anything, so Power Ring operated in much the same way. He was the one bringing characters back and forth between Universes. During the Grant Morrison's Anti-Matter Syndicate era Hal was actually gone, so there were several different versions of Power Ring based on Kyle Rayner or John Stewart. By the time the New 52 Crime Syndicate appeared, however, it was back to the original Hal version. At this point he was being depicted as very cowardly, since the ring was really the one in charge dominating it's host.
This is a major plot point, because in this storyline the ring actually finds a new host in future Green Lantern Jessica Cruz. We're going to be incorporating her using a whole different hook, but we are at least going to make Power Ring a small part of her backstory. They often refer to Power Ring as Harold Jordan, rather than Hal, and eagle-eyed fans might notice that that's also the name of a classic DC character called Airwave, who is described as Hal's cousin. We're not using him, so this became a fun opportunity to incorporate that idea. |
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