Geoff Thorne Put Green Lanterns Through Police Abolishment/Reform and Nobody Noticed

*walks in from the shadows lighting a candy cigarette* When we talk about the Green Lantern comic book series, it’s dope because there are so many different volumes and iterations of the characters and stories. *exhales candy smoke* All of that usually depends on the writer. Robert Vendetti’s run highlighted the Green Lanterns as a team and individually. For the past couple of years, we’ve seen the Green Lantern corps focusing more so on space adventures with humanitarian issues every so often but nothing heavily too heavily political. The series’ current writer Geoff Thorne? I said, this man Geoff tho? Geoff Thorne picked up the pen and said, “Comics ain’t political *huh* THEY GOIN BE POLITICAL TODAY.” In the upcoming Black Nerd Problems book, I wrote an essay about how the Green Lantern comic books have lowkey been tackling police accountability and reform for years. On Earth, Green Lanterns are referred to as police in order to simplify their role. The word police doesn’t hold the same weight when referring to the Green Lanterns since their histories don’t share the same roots. Thank god, because I got a Green Lantern tattoo (Yes, I will always mention this for each GL write-up I do. Deal with it) and was ready to cut ties if need be. Unlike police institutes in real life where the officers that do get fired are just reinstated at a different precinct, we’ve seen how Lanterns that have broken that broke their oath were properly punished and expelled. However, what none …