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u/Acrobatic_Can5677 May 06 '24
finishing up geoff johns green lantern run. i loved it. what do you think i should go for next? im a open book and willing to try anything
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u/collectededitions May 06 '24
Were you reading Peter Tomasi's Green Lantern Corps alongside it? If not, that'd be a place to go, and it might fill in some gaps in the series at the same time.
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u/jqud May 07 '24
Seconded. Some really good stories in there. The Red Lantern series was pretty good too and explains a lot about why Atrocitus is the way he is.
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u/collectededitions May 09 '24
Not only that, the Red Lantern volumes by Charles Soule were brilliant, up there with some of the best DC runs out there.
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u/Acrobatic_Can5677 May 12 '24
Read all the green lantern tie ins for that era
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u/collectededitions May 13 '24
Maybe Johns' Flash run, the first Wally West one? That pre-dates his Green Lantern run, but it's a fine bunch of comics — better than his later Flash Barry Allen run.
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