#so the more Hal's origin gets pushed forward the longer Abin's lifespan gets

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Well, according to DC Comics official Twitter, John is 29.

To which I say absolutely not what the fuck are you talking about Detective Comics Comics

(Also Caper was the front for a superhero trafficking ring that Jess and Simon broke up in Green Lanterns #40-43 so I wouldn't trust any data from them)

Anyways, DC's sliding timescale makes the question of any superhero's age into an unholy mess even if significant events in their lives are tied to events with concrete date.

Keli, bless her heart, is the only one who has a clear answer. She was canonically stated to be 11 years old during Bendis's Young Justice run- which does mean that she probably called herself Teen Lantern in an effort to be seen as older than she is. It's unclear how much time has passed since then, but it doesn't seem like more than a year.

Jo was a teenager when 9/11 happened. If DC's calendar lines up with the real world, then she would be in her mid-thirties at least. Nothing in her comics really contradicts this- she was in the Army, then went to Princeton, and then became a cop and got fired before she was recruited for the Corps. If Jo is in her 30s, that leaves ample time for all that to happen.

The question is really whether DC's calendar does line up with the real world. Because Simon throws a huge wrench into this. He was around ten or eleven when 9/11 happened, so that should mean he's in his early thirties, just a few years younger than Jo. However, he was introduced back in 2012, when he would have been in his early twenties.

Hal does say in Green Lanterns: Rebirth (2016) that Simon has only a few weeks worth of seniority over Jessica. Now Hal might be exaggerating but Simon and Jessica are bickering like young adults in their early 20s.

(they really be arguing like twins about who's older by a few minutes no wonder Hal does the GL equivalent of making them share a T-shirt)

Jessica doesn't have a concrete age but her backstory does give us some clues. She was still in college when her friends were murdered, and she spent four years hiding in her apartment before Volthoom's Ring forced her out. I don't know if it's ever been established how far she got with her degree but we're still looking at a range of like early to mid-twenties.

Honestly I'd just assume Simon and Jessica are both in their mid-twenties, only a year or two apart in age.

(During the aforementioned Superhuman Trafficking storyline, Simon is shown to have hooked up with Night Pilot, and her profile is shown to list her age as 26. Though Simon and Jessica do use the app, we don't see their full profiles so no ages are shown for them)

Kyle I think should be in his late twenties or so? When he started dating Donna, the other Titans do comment on how he's younger than her. Probably not by much, since he had graduated college and seemed to have a stable enough job as an artist, but enough that it was brought up in conversation. DC might not agree but I think the original Titans should be in their thirties, given that several of them are parents with kids well out of infancy.

Yeah idgaf what DC says, John is not 29 years old. It just doesn't feel right, especially after they combined his two backstories of being a former Marine Corps sniper and an architect. Like, it's technically possible if John only served 4 years, then went to architecture school (which is usually a 5 year program). But with how much comic book history that John has, it makes more sense for him to be at least in his thirties.

Guy and Hal feel like they'd be similar in age, both contemporaries of the core Justice League members. I'd say at minimum they're in their late thirties, possibly going into their forties.

tl;dr- Keli is the baby sister at 11 years old. Simon and Jessica are basically twins in their mid-20s. Kyle and Jo are a bit older, most likely late 20s. John is probably in his mid-30s. Guy and Hal are rapidly approaching middle-aged. Alan is at least a century old but he's magic.

Hey do we know how old all the Lanterns are in relation to each other?? I know age is really inconsistent in comics since half of these guys have been around since the 90’s and are still ostensibly in their 40’s-ish, but I’m curious what we know/think

Like Alan’s the oldest, obvi. But then Hal, Guy, and John all just kinda feel like they’re the same generation to me, and maybe Hal was supposed to be implied to be older right before his Parallax arc via his silver temples but now that’s mostly chalked up to “stress,” right?

And Kyle, Simon, Jessica, and Jo all sorta feel like they’re the same generation??? I’m like 80% sure that Simon and Jo both were deeply affected by witnessing and/or living thru 9/11 some time in their adolescence, so that would make them…what, millennials?