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Green Lantern by Geoff Johns Book One (New Edition)
Begin Geoff Johns's Green Lantern run with a collected paperback.
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The Oath
Words that focus the light.
The story
"In brightest day, in blackest night, no evil shall escape my sight. Let those who worship evil's might, beware my power — Green Lantern's light!" Every Green Lantern speaks these words, hand on power battery, to recharge a dying ring. The oath is more than ritual: it is the key that opens the flow of willpower, the spoken bond between Lantern and Corps. Recited alone on a distant world or in unison with 7,200 others, it is the sound of the Corps remembering what it is.
The oath's origins reach back to the Corps' founding — the Guardians gave their Lanterns words to focus the will the rings demand. Alan Scott, the Golden Age Lantern, swore a different oath over his magic lantern, but the modern oath belongs to the Corps of Oa, refined across billions of years into its perfect form. And the other Corps have their own: the Sinestro Corps swears "In blackest day, in brightest night, beware your fears made into light..." — a deliberate perversion of the green words. The Red Lanterns snarl their oath of rage; the Blue Lanterns sing of hope. Each oath is a mirror of its emotion.
To speak the oath is to accept the charge. Lanterns have recited it dying, defiant, and afraid — for the oath does not require fearlessness, only the will to act despite fear. It has been whispered in Sciencells and shouted across battlefields, and every Corps' oath ends the same way: with a claim of identity. Green Lantern's light. The words are the Corps' oldest technology, older than the rings themselves: the idea that willpower, spoken aloud, becomes a promise. Read every Corps' oath on the quotes page.
Artwork: DC Comics — fan tribute.
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