#volthoom

[why-i-love-comics]

Green Lantern #20 - "The End" (2013)

written by Geoff Johns art by Doug Mahnke, Christian Alamy, Keith Champagne, Marc Deering, Mark Irwin, Wade von Grawbadger, Tom Nguyen, Doug Mahnke, Patrick Gleason, Cully Hamner, Aaron Kuder, Jerry Ordway, Ivan Reis, Oclair Albert, Joe Prado, Ethan Van Sciver, Alex Sinclair, & Tony Avina

[moony-bird]

those wacky guardians huh

[wanderingmind867]

Power Ring I (Harold Jordan): First, we need to discuss the ring of volthoom, and I need to explain who volthoom is. Millenia ago, on one of the many positive matter universes, there was a warlock named volthoom. A power hungry man, volthoom tapped into the very energies of the cosmos themselves, and made himself a being of pure energy. Acting as a virtual god, he attempted to bend the multiverse to his whims. He nearly succeeded, until the collective forces of the Monitor and the Anti-Monitor worked together to contain him. He was that big a threat.

Once they'd defeated him and stripped him of most of his power, they held a trial. And at the end of the trial, the monitor deemed him guilty. And in yet another example of the monitor dishing out indignity after indignity onto the anti-monitor, volthoom's punishment was to be banished forever to the anti-matter universe. The Anti-Monitor didn't want any part in this power mad warlock, though. He hated him and hated the monitor for pushing volthoom onto him. So he made sure volthoom would be punished in his own way.

More specifically, the anti-monitor ripped volthoom's soul out of his body, and then trapped his soul inside of a ring. Volthoom was now just a genie in a lamp, with no real physical form of his own. He would always be a servant to other men's wills. Or well, that was the plan. But the anti-monitor made a few mistakes, and these mistakes allowed volthoom to continue to flourish. Because while volthoom may no longer have a physical form, he's still got a mind. And he's capable of whispering in men's ears, tricking them into using his powers.

And if those men are weak enough, volthoom will literally eat them from the inside out. He steals their energies and burns them up, and it powers himself. If he steals enough energy from enough people, he can feasibly reconstruct his body and make another play for multiversal domination again. So for centuries volthoom's cursed ring has been traveling through the anti-matter universe, stealing men's souls and energies.

And now we get to talk about Harold Jordan. Harold Jordan was a janitor at the ferris aircraft company. He applied to be a pilot years before, but he was consistently rejected for his inability to stay calm while in the cockpit. Angry and bitter about being just a two-bit janitor for a stupid plane company, Harold was amazed when he suddenly saw a spaceship crash out in the fields near the airstrip late one night.

Inside the spaceship lay a dying alien, volthoom's latest victim. This man convinces Harold to take the ring by whispering sweet promises into his ear. You'll have unlimited power, the adoration of millions, you'll finally be a hero… Desperate to believe the words the dying alien said to him, Harold eagerly puts the ring on his finger. And this was the beginning of the end of his normal life.

Because volthoom now had a new host, a new victim to drain energy from. For a few years he hid his existence from Harold, though. For a good few years, the name of Power Ring actually meant heroic things to the people of the anti-matter earth. He was actually a good man doing good things. But then…things began to spiral out of control. Whenever Harold tried to get the ring to do things, it wouldn't do it. It began demanding complete obedience, and it would haunt him with horrifying visions until he complied.

So by the time Power Ring joins the Crime Syndicate, Harold Jordan is an utterly broken man. A spineless coward who can barely close his eyes without seeing volthoom's terrifying visions, harold isn't even in real control of his actions anymore. He hates most of the others in the crime syndicate, but he has no backbone to stand up for himself. And he's also beginning to suffer from a constant fever, a sign that volthoom is beginning to burn him up and consume him…

Although it isn't all bad for Harold. When the Justice League Canada ends up on the anti-matter earth, he manages to follow them back to the positive matter universe (volthoom ordered him to, seeing it as a chance to begin taking over the multiverse again). But once in the positive matter universe, the Justice League are able to figure out that the ring is controlling his every action. And they successfully manage to free him of it's influence. Still, volthoom and his ring escape from the league's headquarters before anyone can destroy it completely. So he'll probably find a new host before too long…

But in the meantime, Harold Jordan has his life back. Sure, the positive matter earth is different from the negative matter earth he used to call home. But he's finally free of that damned rings influence. Maybe he can finally begin to live again. But seeing as he's homeless, I see him living with the Justice League as he goes to therapy and tries to work on his lingering issues.

[guardiansandgrundos]

"Restricted area, Rami. Move along."

"Remember our citadel vows, Ganthet? 'Science belongs to all sentient beings.'"

"Remember your vows, Rami? 'Our hearts' emotions we now forsake.' Beware your excessively emotional reactions."

[bearforceone3]

jess gets a new power

[themyscirah]

Thinking abt Jessica Cruz and the ability to overcome great fear again

[torchbearing]

you LITERALLY beat a couple of guys into a pulp in rage, kyle, in the terry hatecrime arc. you cut a guy's head off and threw it into space with a baseball bat as revenge.

HOW THE FUCK DO YOU NOT KNOW RAGE???

green lantern: new guardians issue #0

[incorrect-green-lantern-quotes]

*PTSD flashbacks to Kyle and Guy in Injustice*

things that are not easily separated: a Green Lantern and their Ring

things that are unfortunately easily separated: a Green Lantern and the extremity their Ring is attached to

[vgperson]

Vocaloid Highlights: May 2025

God only knows what makes a godly song, but girl only knows what makes a girly song.

Highlights Archive

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[why-i-love-comics]

Green Lantern #20 - "The End" (2013)

written by Geoff Johns art by Doug Mahnke, Christian Alamy, Keith Champagne, Marc Deering, Mark Irwin, Wade von Grawbadger, Tom Nguyen, Doug Mahnke, Patrick Gleason, Cully Hamner, Aaron Kuder, Jerry Ordway, Ivan Reis, Oclair Albert, Joe Prado, Ethan Van Sciver, Alex Sinclair, & Tony Avina

[moony-bird]

what experimental heart surgery does to a mf

[minie-mastermind]

DC Sonic - Earth 3 / Anti Mobius

Sonic / Flash counterpart would be Scourge / Johnny Quick. Being more like Evil Sonic instead of scourge he would be more of a basic bully and impulsively following his own whims.

Tails / Cyborg counterpart would be Miles Prower / Grid. After deconstructing Dr. Kintobor's technology he would finally be able to overpower his bullies. From there he would start incorporating it into himself, becoming obsessed with power and joining the Crime Syndicate for a chance to try and manipulate them.

Knuckles / Superman counterpart would be O'Nux / Ultraman. The echidna's Society along with the Master Emerald would have been destroyed, being the last survivor he would hunt down the shards of the Master Emerald to empower himself.

Amy Rose / Wonder Woman counterpart from the previous pattern should be Rosie The Rascal / Superwoman. This won't work though since Lois Lane is superwoman and not Diana Prince in most versions of Earth 3. Not to mention given superwoman's love triangle with Owlman and Ultraman it makes more sense for it to be Rogue The Bat / Superwoman. Given Rosie The Rascal backstory it would actually make more sense for her to be a twisted version of Mary Marvel.

Silver / Green Lantern only having a DC counterpart in Power Ring without a direct counterpart on Anti Mobius. From the Power Rings origin now it may have been given to him by his universe's version of Blaze. Instead having the spirit of Volthoom inside the ring it would have Mephiles who would have pushed him to travel back in time.

Shadow / Batman only having a DC counterpart in Owlman without a direct counterpart on Anti Mobius. Owlman is not actually Bruce Wayne he is Thomas Wayne Jr, Bruce's secret older brother. Shadow does have an older relation that was kept secret as well, the Biolizard. The silver of the outfit would be his life support along with armor. Instead of being too dangerous to contain he would have stayed under control long enough to kill everyone on the Ark before descending the Earth.

[the-antiapocalyptic-man]

I love how you connect various characters and power sets to the lanterns and emotional spectrum, whether it’s the various lantern corps. Or the red, green and others from the swamp thing and animal man comics, and recently that amazing green arrow art, what other characters do you think tap into that same power source in the headverse? I’ve always wondered if the emotional spectrum is some filtered version of the source, or that maybe it has ties with the lords of order and chaos … I just get so inspired by your creativity it really lights a fire in me 😁

Always glad to inspire

so actually the Emotional Spectrum being a filtered version of the Source is exactly what I was thinking, but as a consequence of the eternal tension between the (Light) Source and The Great Darkness. The Darkness predates The Source and instinctively seeks to consume it, the site of contact between the two creating material reality (The "Pankosmos" or "Pankosmik"). The Source manifested consciousness in the form of The Presence (often conflated with the Christian God, but ultimately distinct) and life itself in the form of The Entity, filtering out into the Spectrum Entities, its "children" (Umbrax, Lovebird, Proselyte, Adara, Ion, Parallax, Ophidian, Butcher, and Raedan/Hate Machine) while the Great Darkness began mimic this process, creating Nekron and Barbatos, corrupting Eclipso, and manifesting an "Anti-Presence" or Primordial God of Darkness.

The Lords of Order and Chaos initially emerged from opposite sides of this divide (The Source and Gemworld for Order, The Great Darkness and Darkworld for Chaos) but the division blurred over eternity as being living in material reality grew beyond the Manichaen Us-Them Dichotomy of Light and Dark. Just as the multiverse is a product of the interaction between opposing forces, so is everything within it. The Source being released from its Wall would be just as devastating as the Great Darkness overtaking material reality, if not moreso. This came to a head twice in Proto-History and Hyper-Ancient human history with Krona's vision of the Empty Hand on Maltus, and again with Garn Daanuth and Garn Ahri'ahn (descended from the Omega Humanoids that populated the Garden of Eternity before it was rendered barren and became the Rock of Eternity) struggling over Darkworld leading to the deluge that sunk Atlantis, Lemuria and Mu and trapped Skartaris in a pocket dimension. Many of the refugees of the Garn Civil War ended up on Xerox (The Sorceror's World or "Gemworld") though Xerox itself wouldn't created until far into the future, unstuck from Hypertime by its overwhelming mystical energy.

Predating the Maltusians reverse-engineering Lantern technology from Volthoom, the Spectrum itself was wilder and less controlled, appearing like mystical fire and becoming the basis of the Starhearts. Obvs this powers Alan and Jade (Green), The Sorovs and the Church of Blood (Red), Cobalt Blue (Blue), The Amazons' Purple Ray (Violet), Despero (Indigo), and various Wizards and Warlocks (Orange and Yellow). The Black Flame is particularly dangerous, resurrecting the dead but sublimating their will entirely to Nerkon.

[strangeduckpaper]

Green Lanterns of the 'Modern Age'

Hal Jordan-Spectre

From Coast City, California

Green Lantern during the latter half of the 20th Century, in roughly the same generation as Jade, Obsidian, and Infinity Inc, and Robert Queen, during his work with IO.

So technically he’s Pre-Modern Age

Coast City gets destroyed by Monarch, after which he disappears into deep space.

He returns in the modern age, possessed by Parallax and slaughtering the Guardians and a good chunk of the Corp.

The damage he does leaves the Green Lantern Rings vulnerable to being overtaken by other emotions, leading to a recruitment drive by Sinestro and his Qwardian allies, amongst other factions…

Following his death at the hands of his fellow Lanterns, Sinestro, and the League, he would find himself as the new host of the Spectre.

John Stewart-Mosaic

From Midway City, Michigan (Which takes the place of Detroit), an architect who gained his ring holding off a damaged Manhunter while he was consulting with Ferris Air.

The first “Modern” Green Lantern, and a founding member of the Justice League.

Had a brief Space-Vegas marriage to Katma Tui, though they would eventually settle into a more platonic relationship, and have a romance with Hawkwoman, Kendra Munoz-Sauners.

Following Hal’s rampage, John would be appointed to the position of Guardian, overseeing the GLC during the War of Light and the resulting treaty to form the Mosaic.

Would later override his Lantern Ring with compassion, becoming an Indigo Lantern when the First Lantern escapes.

Loves the alien tech he encounters, wants to take stuff apart to see how it works, reverse engineer alien tech and how it can be modified, how it works with human technology.

Very thorough and blueprint-y construct style, which makes him a little slow by lantern standards but makes his constructs incredibly durable.

Guy Gardner-The Warrior

Actually nonbinary.

Was a social worker before a TBI, is very mad about it.

Opened a bar in Bludhaven, Warriors, and even made some association with Dick Grayson.

Tapped as a back up Lantern by John when he went off world due to their willpower. The other leaguers really questioned John’s judgement on that one.

Still proved their mettle, but gave up the ring surprisingly easy once John was back.

Would still be tapped as a GL and JL reserve, but lose his rings and both arms during the Emerald Twilight.

Would later get metamorphic prosthetics originally belonging to the Vuldarii, a civilization that harnessed the Emotional Lights in a much more raw, untamed form.

Became the Warrior and served with the JLI, harnessing their emotions to power the prosthetics.

Their use of the Emotional spectrum now is flame-like, fast and destructive, but actual Light based constructs have little lasting power.

Kylie Rayner-The White Lantern

Irish Woman here.

Given a GL Ring by a dying Ganthet during Emerald Twilight.

Would spend her career fighting the Controllers, their Effigies, The Third Army, The First Lantern, etc..

Alex DeWitt doesn’t die, but they eventually break up.

Also has a very intense relationship with Soranik Natu, who herself would become the Yellow Lantern representative of the Mosaic.

Ascends to become The White Lantern during Crisis, becoming a guardian of E136’s dimensional barriers.

Her construct style has a sketchy quality to it, and tends to evolve through different “drafts”

Simon Baz and Jessica Cruz-Emerald and Opal

Okay, these two aren’t Green Lanterns per say, but connected to the Emotional Light and Darklands, like Jade & Obsidian (20th century Infinity Inc. heroes, here)

The ring of Volthoom (native to E136 here, a GL ring high jacked by the ancient rogue Emerald Knight, Volthoom of Mars) finds a host in the traumatized Jessica Cruz, sewing chaos as Limelight.

Eventually Jessica gains control of the ring, though it tries to blow itself up.

I explain how that goes (and how Simon enters the story) here.

Simon walks out of the explosion connected to the Light, capable of GL style hard light constructs and healing.

Jessica leaves connected to the Darklands, allowing her to manipulate her shadow like a GL ring, travel through shadows, and see visions.

They fall in with Infinity Inc. at first, but join the JL soon enough, before getting married.

Jo Mullein-Far Flung

Recruited after John’s appointment to Guardianhood, dispatched to Far Sector for a while.

Is recalled to Earth to help teach Stephanie, and ends up as the JL's main Lantern.

Stephanie Brown-Emerald Knight

Spoiler. Robin. Batgirl. Dead. Arkham Knight. 

Stephanie actually gets a Red Lantern Ring around Crisis, though overrides it through sheer force of will.

Is partnered with Jo Mullein, and thus the secondary Lantern of the JL, which would see her working with two of her exes.

Keli Quintela-Teen Lantern

Somehow engineered a connection to the Emotional Spectrum similar to Lantetn Power Batteries.

Tai Pham-The Legacy

Descendant of Golden Age GL Kim Tran

Newest Green Lantern as of yet.

Milagro Reyes-Spectrum

Uses a multi colored Spectrum Ring.

[random-movie-ideas]

Green Lantern Legends: Jessica Cruz

Jessica Cruz was one of the five Lanterns covered in the larger DC universe. She is a relatively recent addition to the series, a teenager who was out camping with her friends when they stumbled upon two men burying a body, and most of them were subsequently murdered. Jessica, the only survivor, was found by the Ring of Volthoom, Power Ring's ring from the Crime Syndicate universe. She was later able to wield a regular Lantern ring as well.

If we're going by her origin story as it stands, she'd have to come in a post-Crime Syndicate storyline era, where Power Ring's defeat results in his ring being lost in a forest in some way. From there we could just start telling stories with her, Simon Baz, and probably Sojourner Mullein in continuing stories later into the cinematic universe.

[wanderingmind867]

Issue #71: We follow team one as they head to rural texas, hunting down the ring of volthoom. They can sense it's evil emanations, even miles away. But while hunting for the ring, they end up instead falling into a trap designed by Jerome Spiegelman, the man who created William Nielsen. When last we saw him, he had gotten his brain trapped in the body of a coyote (after having previously tried to take his brain out of his 95 year old body and transfer it into william nielsen). But in the year or two since then, he's managed to find work arounds.

More specifically, jerome ran into a weirdo seeking to evolve animals so they could be as intelligent as humans. He kidnapped jerome's body and conducted strange experiments on it. And by the time he was done, jerome was still in coyote form, but he could move and talk like a man again! So he killed the man who experimented on him and began building a ray to reverse the process (and turn humans into animals).

Knowing his old creation william nielsen is a member of the Justice League Canada, jerome tries to bait the league into coming to his hidden lab in texas. He's hoping that this will afford him a chance to get revenge on william. But then he discovers that the league members he captured are neither willian or willow, the two he wanted. But in a fit of pure rage, he turns his animal ray on them anyways. Guy Gardner becomes a porcupine, Blue Beetle becomes a real beetle, Booster Gold becomes a rattlesnake and The Question becomes a scorpion.

Meanwhile (while half the league is turned into animals), the ring of volthoom has found it's newest host: one jessica cruz, of houston, texas.

1. Green Lantern III (Guy Gardner)

2. Booster Gold (Michael Jon Carter)

3. Blue Beetle (Ted Kord)

4. The Question (Vic Sage)

Issue #72: We follow team two as they head to mount olympus, to barter for johnny quick's life. Guided by our special guest JSA member; Jay Garrick, a man who actually is descended from the greek god hermes. He leads them to seek a parlance with the twelve main olympians. The meeting is tense, primarily because Jemm and Nubia believe in the roman gods and don't have any real trust or faith in most of the greek ones.

So it's up to Sam and Jay to convince the Olympians to listen to their pleas. These two old men (who also happen to be demigods) have to persuade zeus and the other gods to trust them. Jay and Sam manage to convince their godly parents (poseidon and hermes) to help them out, but then the task remains to persuade at least half of the rest of the council.

William ends up meeting Hephaestus in his forges, and the two strike up a beautiful friendship. Hephaestus and this sentient android manage to identify with each other, and a kinship bond is established. Meanwhile, Willow meets Apollo. And after some awkward first moments where apollo seems to flirt with her, it becomes clear that Apollo knows that Willow was originally Mantis, from the DC universe. He knows of her dimensional travels, and he knows just how important she is to the fabric of reality.

Despite Nubia being raised by Mars, she is still an amazon princess, and the amazons were the blessed warriors of aphrodite, artemis and athena. So Nubia is able to appeal to them, and their sense of duty to their chosen ones. And finally, Aqsarniit has a heart to heart with Zeus, discussing how they both know all too intimately about the skies. Aqsarniit is the personification of the northern lights, zeus is god of the skies. They have a bond. And lord zeus: we in the league need your help. With Kronos/Saturn and Gaea/Terra teaming up and Johnny Quick dying, we need your aid.

So after many fascinating conversations between the league members and the olympians, we find that the olympian council has given assent to the league (everyone except ares has given their blessing); that they may expect a cure for Johnny Quick and the gods aid in the battles to come. And on that note, the justice league leaves mount olympus. But on the way down, willow gets a premonition that their fellow league members in texas are in danger!

So the team splits up, yet again. The league members will head to texas to save their teammates. Meanwhile, Jay Garrick will gather some of the Justice Society members and head for ottawa with johnny quick's cure. And that story would be covered in a tie-in jsa comic book.

1. Jemm, Son of Saturn

2. William Nielsen

3. Willow/Mantis

4. The Admiral (Sam Heartsea)

5. Nubia of Themyscira

6. Aqsarniit

7. The Flash I (Jay Garrick)

Issue #73: The members of the league who were in olympus now head to rural texas to save their fellow heroes from Jerome Spiegelman. Or well, they don't know it's Jerome Spiegelman's doing yet. But they will soon. They will soon.

But this issue would feature two concurrent stories: the story of Jessica Cruz and the ring of volthoom (as told by traumatic flashbacks to jessica's life), and the story of the Justice League stopping Jerome Spiegelman from trying to turn every human in the United States into an animal.

When William Nielsen figures out that Jerome is the one behind this, he snaps. Jerome may have built him, but he also nearly ruined his life. He should've stayed dead, like his body did! Willow holds William back, trying to explain to him that she's been down this road of anger before and it's never solved anything. You need to stop, focus and relax. Before you lose yourself to the anger and the fire deep within.

But eventually, Jemm, Nubia, Sam and the other leaguers manage to reverse Jerome's transformation ray, and they turn it back on jerome, leaving him trapped in the body of a coyote once more. Then william gets one chance to strike back, and he does so in a way that finally allows him to release all the violence he's had burning up inside of him all this time. He kicks the coyote, and sends it flying miles away. Then the leaguers head home, to see if the JSA managed to save johnny quick.

But in one last epilogue: Jessica Cruz accepts the Power Ring. And just as she accepts it, a coyote falls into her lap. Before she has any chance of figuring out what's going on, a deep, resonant voice speaks to her. The voice of Saturn…

1. Jemm, Son of Saturn

2. The Question (Vic Sage)

3. William Nielsen

4. Willow/Mantis

5. The Admiral (Sam Heartsea)

6. Booster Gold (Michael Jon Carter)

7. Blue Beetle (Ted Kord)

8. Nubia of Themyscira

9. Green Lantern III (Guy Gardner)

10. Aqsarniit

Justice Society #63: In a tie-in with Justice League Canada #73, the Justice Society of America head to Ottawa to administer the cure to Johnny Quick and save his life. But while attempting to get into the building, they discover a bunch of high tech crooks trying to break into the building.

Realizing they're gonna have to split up, the team splits into two groups of four. Group One (The Atom, Red Tornado, Black Canary and Wildcat) work to stop the thieves from breaking into the Justice League's Ottawa Headquarters. Meanwhile, Group Two (The Flash, Green Lantern, Hawkman and Doctor Mid-Nite) have to successfully evade the security traps the justice league set up, and complete the operation on johnny quick in time for him to live.

Thankfully, both teams do their jobs to perfection. And by the time the Justice League Canada returns from their mission in Texas, they find johnny quick and power ring both recovering wonderfully, all thanks to the aid of the JSA!

Justice Society members:

1. The Flash I (Jay Garrick)

2. Green Lantern I (Alan Scott)

3. Hawkman I (Carter Hall)

4. The Atom (Al Pratt)

5. Red Tornado

6. Black Canary (Dinah Lance)

7. Wildcat (Ted Grant)

8. Doctor Mid-Nite (Charles Mcnider)

Justice League Canada members (who cameo at the end):

1. Jemm, Son of Saturn

2. The Question (Vic Sage)

3. William Nielsen

4. Willow/Mantis

5. The Admiral (Sam Heartsea)

6. Booster Gold (Michael Jon Carter)

7. Blue Beetle (Ted Kord)

8. Nubia of Themyscira

9. Green Lantern III (Guy Gardner)

10. Aqsarniit

Additional Members/Guests:

1. Johnny Quick (Barton Allen)

2. Power Ring I (Harold Jordan)