Green Lantern #52 covers

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From DC's blog:



title: green lantern, char: sinestro, event: blackest night, creator:shane davis, creator: doug mahnke

Comments

[naebler]

I'm going to be honest, I actually like seeing that Sinestro isn't a straight up 2d villain. The blackest Night Arc has really shown why the Guardians selected him at first. The added slide in of his love of Abin Sur's Sister even the fact he only wanted to control Kougar to bring peace and order to his unruly planet.

Frankly Sinestro is the only one to give in to all the emotions completely.

1. Will, he was one of the greatest lanterns of his time.
2. Fear, when he was alone in the power battery and discovered Parallax first.
3. Anger, at Jordan for his disgrace and fall from his post as the most respected lantern.
4. Love, his love for Abin Sur and his home planet.
5. Avarice, to take back what was his, to reconquer his planet and to reclaim his corps. The want to reclaim the spotlight in the universe after his fall.
6. Hope, his Hope for hal Jordan being his perfect successor (pre Hal selling him out) further his Hope for bringing Peace to his planet by conquering it.
7. Death, He has died several times.

So yes he is a perfect candidate for white.

[crinos]

What about compassion?

[naebler]

Compassion is a joke and not a real emotion ;)

Nah he shows compassion several times through out the history of his character. There are times he could have destroyed someone but showed mercy and times he killed someone to put them out of their suffering. Look to the Sinestro corps war and even the blackest night tieins for more.

[kingrockwell]

Yeeeeeeeaaaaahhhhh I'm gonna go with "no" on that one. Mercy-killing and mercy-not-killing don't really count as compassion.

[naebler]

Indigo did it on her first appearance. Check back and what she does for the Corpsman suffering.

[kingrockwell]

And everyone yelled at Johns for not getting Compassion then, too. It is not mercy, it is not pity, it is a very different thing.

[zordboy]

Yeah, you know? That really bothered me then as well.

I'm glad it wasn't just me who was annoyed by that.