The following contains spoilers for Dark Crisis: Worlds Without a Justice League - Green Lantern #1, on sale now from DC Comics.
Dark Crisis: Worlds Without a Justice League - Green Lantern #1 throws John Stewart into a world where he's become the ultimate Green Lantern and his sister, Eleanor, has become the Central Power Battery.
Dark Crisis: Worlds Without a Justice League - Green Lantern #1 comes from writer Phillip Kennedy Johnson, artist Fernando Blanco, colorist Jordie Bellaire and letterer Troy Peteri. The one-shot is set after the events of Justice League #75, where John Stewart and the rest of the Justice League -- apart from Black Adam -- were defeated and captured by Pariah and his Dark Army. Rather than kill the heroes, Pariah has trapped them all on separate planets catered to match their personal desires.
John Stewart's world sees him acting as a retired Green Lantern living as a farmer with his mother and baby sister. John's mother tells Eleanor a story about how John became "Earth's first and greatest" superhero who formed a team of Green Lanterns called the Watchtower to protect the planet. "One day, when [John'd] done what he set out to do, he took off his ring, and passed it on," she explains. "He became an architect, like he'd always wanted. And now we all live here together in the house he built for us, and he's finally putting up a fence to keep the rabbits out of my flowers."
John comes over to join the conversation when, suddenly, Eleanor's eyes begin glowing green and she delivers a message asking for help from a blind Kyle Rayner. John and his mother then talk in private where it's revealed Eleanor died years ago and this new version of her was created by John. "They're called the Radiant Dead," John reveals. "They're the ones that killed the Old Guardians. If they'd killed the Central Battery like they meant to, there wouldn't be a Corps anymore...probably nothing else, either. So I took the battery from Oa, and I hid it...in the shape of my baby sister. It really is still her, Mom. My memory of her, anyway. She's just...more than she used to be."
John Stewart's Place in Dark Crisis
Upon receiving the call from Rayner, Stewart flies out into space to join him, Jason Todd and a number of other Green Lanterns in a massive battle against an alien foe. Stewart single-handily defeats the enemy, causing everyone to hail him as "the Guardian." He returns back to the farm and John's mother promises Eleanor that nobody will ever try to take her away as long as her big brother is around. John and his family may have company soon, however, as Hal Jordan is the latest hero to be sucked into one of Pariah's worlds in Dark Crisis on Infinite Earths #3. Upon arriving in the strange new land, Hal is "greeted" by Rayner and Todd before being told he's landed on "Sector John Stewart."
Dark Crisis: Worlds Without a Justice League - Green Lantern #1 features cover art by Blanco and variant cover art by Mario "Fox" Foccillo and Prasad Rao [Pressy]. The one-shot is on sale now from DC.
Source: DC