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Green Lantern: New Guardians

Green Lantern: New Guardians is an American comic book series originally written by Tony Bedard with art by Tyler Kirkham and Batt and published by DC Comics.

The team consists of representatives of each of the Corps that tap into a particular portion of the emotional spectrum. Its original members were Kyle Rayner (Green Lantern Corps), Arkillo (Sinestro Corps), Bleez (Red Lantern Corps), Glomulus (Orange Lantern Corps), Munk (Indigo Tribe), Saint Walker (Blue Lantern Corps) and Fatality (Star Sapphires). The group disbands in issue #0 (September 2012), and reforms in issue #13 with Kyle, Arkillo, and new members Carol Ferris and Atrocitus. Larfleeze joins in issue #15.

In September 2011, The New 52 rebooted DC's continuity. In this new timeline, Green Lantern: New Guardians debuted as part of the new "Green Lantern" family of titles. Other titles initially included in the family were Green Lantern, Green Lantern Corps and Red Lanterns. Larfleeze was added to the group from August 2013 to June 2014, and Sinestro was added in April 2014.

The series crossed over with Blue Beetle (vol. 9) #9 in May 2012, and was part of the "Rise of the Third Army" storyline running through the Green Lantern titles from October 2012 to January 2013.

Andrei Bressan and Amilcar Pinna handled the art duties from issue #13 to #14, while Aaron Kuder and Andres Guinaldo contributed to issues #15 to #20. Beginning with issue #21 in June 2013, the creative team became Justin Jordan and Brad Walker. The title also was part of the "Lights Out" crossover.

After Lanterns from various Corps are suddenly and mysteriously decommissioned, their rings seek a replacement. They fly to Earth, where Green Lantern Kyle Rayner is selected by the rings to join the six other Corps. He is immediately attacked by Sinestro Corps member Arkillo, Red Lantern Bleez, Indigo Tribesman Munk and Star Sapphire Fatality, who think Kyle is a "ring thief". Blue Lantern Saint Walker arrives and aids Kyle. The two flee to Oa seeking answers, and they are pursued by their attackers. Assuming he acquired the rings by foul play, Kyle is attacked by the Guardians. He briefly holds them at bay by utilizing the power of his new rings, but is only able to escape with the aid of Saint Walker, the Lanterns who had been pursuing him, and Orange Lantern Larfleeze.

The group recovers at Larfleeze's home, where he tells them he identified the source of the rings' attraction to Kyle. Bleez returns to the headquarters of the Red Lanterns, and the other five leave Larfleeze to investigate, accompanied by one of Larfleeze's constructs. They locate a space station the size of a solar system, and during their investigation they are attacked by Archangel Invictus, the ruler of the space station. He accuses them of conspiring with "the Beast", referring to a statue of Larfleeze.

As Saint Walker faces him, Invictus reveals that he is the last of a species of angelic beings who sought to bring the light to the universe before Larfleeze attacked them. Unable to absorb the rapidly ascending spirits of the angels into his Corps, Larfleeze hunted Invictus's race to extinction, trapping him on the other side of the other-universal portal that Invictus sought to use to banish Larfleeze. Having returned, Invictus intends to kill Larfleeze and destroy the Vega system, replacing it with the Orrery he has constructed, containing duplicates of the worlds that were lost and "corrupted" by Larfleeze. He also reveals that he had nothing to do with their vanishing rings, suggesting that Larfleeze set the event up to trick the other Corps into doing his work for him. Despite Kyle protesting that Larfleeze alone was not responsible for what has happened to the Vega system since Invictus's time, citing the current teamwork of the seven ring-wielders as proof that miracles can happen, Invictus only agrees to let the 'New Guardians' go if Kyle kills Larfleeze.

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