Saint Walker
63 years ago - Bro'Dee Walker is born on Astonia in Sector 666, the son of Shepards.
51 years ago - 12-year-old Bro'Dee Walker's home planet Astonia is decimated when the Manhunters are awakened.
43 years ago - 20-year-old Bro'Dee Walker's home in Sector 666 is finally spared destruction when the Green Lantern Corps stops the Manhunters, but the Guardians of Oa are forbidden from entering the sector again.
38 years ago - 25-year-old Bro'Dee Walker witnesses as Atrocitus & his Bloodstars rise to power in Sector 666.
32 years ago - 31-year-old Bro'Dee Walker becomes a priest on his home planet.
29 years ago - 34-year-old Bro'Dee Walker is married.
25 years ago - 38-year-old Bro'Dee Walker becomes a father.
18 years ago - 45-year-old Bro'Dee Walker saves his family from Atrocitus's Bloodstars and begins traveling Sector 666 speaking out against them.
13 years ago - 50-year-old Bro'Dee Walker begins building temples across Sector 666 to act as refuges of peace & hope.
7 years ago - 56-year-old Bro'Dee Walker & Razer assist Green Lanterns Hal Jordan, Kilowog, Ch'p & their ship Aya as they travel through Sector 666 to rescue a group of lost Green Lanterns. Bro'Dee is given a special blue Oan Tool designed to heal the damage of the Bloodstar's rage-blood by Ganthet of the Guardians of Oa. He assumes the mantle of Saint Walker.
5 years ago - 58-year-old Bro'Dee Walker, upon seeing that Atrocitus is starting to expand out of Sector 666 after the fall of the Green Lantern Corps, plans to stage a final assault on Ryut. He, Razer & Aya are imprisoned by the regime, escape with the space pirate Jack T Chance, and invade the planet. Bleez attempts to stop them. Aya sacrifices herself to finally end his control over the rage-blood of his followers.
3 year ago - 60-year-old Bro'Dee Walker summons the galaxies lone Green Lantern, Kyle Rayner, so they can travel to the planet Jayd in Sector 112 and stop Atrocitus before he fully controls former Green Lantern Laira permanently, along with the entire royal family.
Our whole goal here is to try to create what feels like an idealized version of DC lore, and so we often get asked why that doesn't include the mid-2000s introduction of the various other-color Lantern Corps. To a lot of people, this is a core part of this mythology, and to them I totally understand why this seems like a glaring omission. I've explained this in quite a few other places, but basically, my personal opinion is that it dilutes what makes the Green Lantern Corps and human Green Lantern heroes special by reducing every other element of the Green Lantern mythology to cookie-cutter versions of the same idea over and over. More simply... this just isn't part of my ideal Green Lantern story.
That doesn't mean the characters themselves don't have merit, though. Not every ringbearer introduced in this period was just another face in the crowd. Some of them had interesting gimmicks, like Larfleeze, but some of them just managed to be a character that clearly can bring something to the lore, once we get rid of the Lantern lore that makes everyone the same. Saint Walker is probably the best example. By taking him out of that story and building a new one around him and Atrocitus, we get this cool space vampire mythology, and anything that adds space vampires is inherently awesome.
That doesn't mean the characters themselves don't have merit, though. Not every ringbearer introduced in this period was just another face in the crowd. Some of them had interesting gimmicks, like Larfleeze, but some of them just managed to be a character that clearly can bring something to the lore, once we get rid of the Lantern lore that makes everyone the same. Saint Walker is probably the best example. By taking him out of that story and building a new one around him and Atrocitus, we get this cool space vampire mythology, and anything that adds space vampires is inherently awesome.
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Saint Walker's StorySaint Walker was introduced along with all the other multicolor Lantern characters in 2008. As we all know, all the Corps are based on a different emotion of the emotional spectrum. Saint Walker was the main representative of the Blue Lantern Corps, which is based on the emotion... hope? Is hope an emotion?
Anyway, I think it's fair to say that Saint Walker managed to have at least some modicum of personality among all the cookie cutter ring wears across all of the other Corps. He featured in an above -average number of stories. Later, one of the New 52 books included Green Lantern: New Guardians, which featured a small team made up of one character from every Corps, where Saint Walker represented the Blue Corps. Meanwhile, Saint Walker appeared in the animated Green Lantern series. He didn't start out with a Lantern; he was instead more of a wanderer character who would turn up here and there, letting his pleasant, helpful personality receive more focus. This is really where the idea of including the more unique alternate Corps members simply without their rings came from. |
Saint Walker's StoryOf the alternate Corps characters that we're looking to include. Saint Walker is a little bit more of a challenge. We can give Larfleeze a magical artifact that essentially replaces his ring, and turn Atrocitus into a blood-based space vampire, but Saint Walker doesn't really have a thing. The blue hope rings are basically just generally helpful. We really used the cartoon as a guide, making him a lone voice in Sector 666, speaking out against Atrocitus's regime and just generally being a wandering wise man like Kane from Kung-Fu.
In the TV show, Saint Walker is actively looking for a prophesied hero to fight the Red Lanterns. He climbs a mountain on Mogo, and upon finding it empty and realizing that HE was actually that hero, is gifted with a unique Blue Lantern Ring. We did essentially the same thing, but made his "Blue Oan Tool" a gift from Ganthet designed to heal the damage of the Bloodstar's Rage-Blood. We haven't specifically said so, but given the overall structure of the stories we tried to do in Sector 666, we imagine that the most common manifestation of the Blue Oan Tool is distinctly whip-like, which gives him a particular utility when fighting space vampires. |
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