Korugar

So is he, now that he's a Yellow Lantern, is he back as a dictator on his planet of Coriander?

Korugar.

Korugar.

Coriander's a spice.

Okay.

Pete's a great writer.

his his green lantern core for me was so i was like dude this is great he was so good and i would seek his name out because i knew it was going to be a good book um but and the super sons obviously but uh uh he created sin sons characters and sort of like when jeff brought in all the new golden age characters and then jeff left to do ghost machine i'm like no one's using these characters i remember like accosting jeff lemire i'm like what are you doing with the kids you know and he's like he's like what kids i'm like oh and in my head i'm thinking i gotta use them you know yeah the sin sons we've been having we've been, we've been doing this like little slow, like Korg guard keeps getting built up in the background of this continuity.

They're running it.

And it's so, it's so hilarious for people that follow my books because you could see these weird through lines that keep going.

Like, I don't forget about them at all.

Like, I don't forget about Hawk man and the God Horus, you know, like I don't forget about the sin sons on Korg are building it back up.

Like, all i'm tracking in my head and i i really really really see fun yeah i want to see more of judy garrick too sir me too there are certain characters that are the minute i want to use them they become uh they go under different purviews.

You know, there are different groups of these different

It is.

He points out that Hal has saved blue skins and orange skins on other planets but asks him directly, "What have you done for the black skins right here at home?"

Wow.

It completely shatters Hal's worldview.

Sharp's art has this intricately detailed, almost European sci-fi fantasy aesthetic.

It looks like something out of Heavy Metal magazine.

Morrison leans into the surrealism of deep space, you know, vampire planets, alternate dimensions, and bizarre alien cultures.

It is challenging, and it doesn't always hold the reader's hand, but it is visually stunning.

As you can see in these images from his debut, he had a darker red skin, but he still had that iconic receding hairline, though I guess it wasn't quite as bad as the Guardian in the panel next to him.

Sinestro is introduced as a renegade Green Lantern who abused his ring of power to install himself as the dictator of his home world of Korugar.

When the Guardians discovered this, they stripped Sinestro of his ring and banished him to the planet Qward in the Anti-Matter Universe, where Hal Jordan eventually fights Sinestro for the first time.

Given that we're talking about the world of comic books and the fact that his debut came all the way back in the '60s, Sinestro's origin story has grown and changed since then.

In the next and final issue of this origin arc, the Guardians assign Hal as Sinestro's responsibility after Hal has managed to piss off every one of his new bosses, to the point that these little blue aliens look like they're ready to hop across the table and set him straight.

These later reintroductions of Sinestro establish a new bond between him and Hal before they become mortal enemies, and they also continue to expand on the story of Sinestro's fall from grace and his abuse of power that first appeared in his Silver Age debut.

In the third issue of Emerald Dawn 2, published in 1991, Sinestro brings Hal to Korugar, and Hal is shocked to find Sinestro's face plastered everywhere in a city built on a culture of fear.

They soon discover that the Korugans have been awaiting Sinestro's return to begin their revolution.

... they're getting, they're getting up in there, grillin' this.

Uh, over on Korugar, a, uh, anti-government rally is begging Saranik Natu to lead them.

Yeah.

She insists that she's just a doctor, but the crowd loves her modesty.

That happened to all of them.

Uh, yeah.

Um, they go back to Korugar, which he expects to be a, a big giant smoking crater, to find out that Sensin and the little Zod boy have rebuilt it.

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For Hal, it is a mental, almost spiritual experience, overcoming fear.

Sinestro, the greatest Green Lantern of his time, part of the reason he was called that was because of how orderly his home planet, Korugar, was because of him.

But his obsession with control turned Sinestro into a quasi-dictator.

showcasing the fascistic tendencies that the Green Lanterns toe the line of.

And the two, while so different, share a few things.

They both held the title of the greatest Green Lantern.

Sinestro was called Korugar's greatest villain by his own people whom he tried to control and how Jordan's memory is also sullied by the heroes of Earth because of Parallax.

They are both renegades.