Everyone's favorite Earthbound Emerald Warriors, Simon Baz and Jessica Cruz, return to Earth after an epic intergalactic battle to save Earth's heroes from a superhuman trafficking ring in Green Lanterns Vol. 8! Jessica Cruz's ring has a mind of its own, and it's lashing out at her! Jess needs to find a way to defend herself against a ring that is making constructs against her will, as she's been pulled into a nightmare world created from her own memories. As Simon Baz and the Justice League try to find her, they turn to an unlikely ally for help: John Constantine! Writer Tim Seeley (Nightwing, Grayson) expands the saga of Simon Baz and Jessica Cruz in Green Lanterns Vol. 8! Collects Green Lanterns #42-49.
ÒRED PLANETÓ Chapter One New Lanterns Jessica Cruz and Simon Baz promised to protect others in brightest day or blackest night, but as ÒRed PlanetÓ begins to rise, the partners find themselves confronted with an unimaginable threat from Bleez and the Red Lanterns! THEY SAID IT: ÒI am psyched for GREEN LANTERNS!Ó says writer Sam Humphries. ÒMyself, Simon, and Jessica are all new to the DC Universe. WeÕre gonna have a blast exploring itÑif we donÕt destroy it first.Ó
Part of the most critically acclaimed, best-selling, all-new line of volume one graphic novels, DC Universe Rebirth! One is all impulse. The other, all anxiety. Together, they put the “green” in Green Lantern. Simon Baz and Jessica Cruz are the latest recruits to the Green Lantern Corps. They’ve proven themselves capable of overcoming great fear alongside the Corps and the Justice League alike. Now Hal Jordan himself has assigned them the task of protecting the planet. But they’re still new to the job, with very little experience and a whole lot to prove. That makes them the perfect targets. One of the Green Lanterns’ greatest enemies has returned, and he has the Earth in his sights. He is Atrocitus, the tyrannical leader of the Red Lanterns, and he means to infect the entire planet with his murderous red rage. Can Jessica and Simon overcome their differences and wield the Green Lantern’s light like true partners? Or will these rookies’ rage help the Red Lanterns extinguish that light for good? Blazing forth from the blockbuster DC Universe Rebirth event comes GREEN LANTERNS VOL. 1: RAGE PLANET, the start of a thrilling saga starring all-new, all-different heroes from the creative team of Sam Humphries (Uncanny X-Force) and Robson Rocha (EARTH 2: WORLD’S END)—featuring contributions from superstars Geoff Johns, Ethan Van Sciver, Ed Benes, Tom Derenick and more! Collects GREEN LANTERNS: REBIRTH #1 and GREEN LANTERNS #1-6.Part of the most critically acclaimed, best-selling, all-new line of volume one graphic novels, DC Universe Rebirth! One is all impulse. The other, all anxiety. Together, they put the “green” in Green Lantern. Simon Baz and Jessica Cruz are the latest recruits to the Green Lantern Corps. They’ve proven themselves capable of overcoming great fear alongside the Corps and the Justice League alike. Now Hal Jordan himself has assigned them the task of protecting the planet. But they’re still new to the job, with very little experience and a whole lot to prove. That makes them the perfect targets. One of the Green Lanterns’ greatest enemies has returned, and he has the Earth in his sights. He is Atrocitus, the tyrannical leader of the Red Lanterns, and he means to infect the entire planet with his murderous red rage. Can Jessica and Simon overcome their differences and wield the Green Lantern’s light like true partners? Or will these rookies’ rage help the Red Lanterns extinguish that light for good? Blazing forth from the blockbuster DC Universe Rebirth event comes GREEN LANTERNS VOL. 1: RAGE PLANET, the start of a thrilling saga starring all-new, all-different heroes from the creative team of Sam Humphries (Uncanny X-Force) and Robson Rocha (EARTH 2: WORLD’S END)—featuring contributions from superstars Geoff Johns, Ethan Van Sciver, Ed Benes, Tom Derenick and more! Collects GREEN LANTERNS: REBIRTH #1 and GREEN LANTERNS #1-6.
They're the newest recruits to the Green Lantern Corps, but learning to trust each other is the hardest challenge Simon Baz and Jessica Cruz may ever face! Their pasts, their personalities, their hidden fears and deepest secrets-the gap between them is hard to overcome ... and it just might make them the greatest partners the Corps has ever seen. Buried in the deepest recesses of the universe by the immortal Guardians is a weapon of colossal power: the Phantom Ring, capable of controlling the entire Emotional Spectrum that fuels Lanterns of every color. And a sinister figure from the Lanterns' past has placed the ring in the hands of a human who's singularly unfit to wield such an awesome responsibility. Can Simon and Jessica come together and defeat this nearly omnipotent foe? Or will the fractured light of the Phantom Lantern be the last thing they ever see? Find out in GREEN LANTERNS VOL. 2: THE PHANTOM LANTERN, from the acclaimed creative team of writer Sam Humphries and artist.
Ghosts and other supernatural phenomena are widely represented throughout modern culture. They can be found in any number of entertainment, commercial, and other contexts, but popular media or commodified representations of ghosts can be quite different from the beliefs people hold about them, based on tradition or direct experience. Personal belief and cultural tradition on the one hand, and popular and commercial representation on the other, nevertheless continually feed each other. They frequently share space in how people think about the supernatural. In Haunting Experiences, three well-known folklorists seek to broaden the discussion of ghost lore by examining it from a variety of angles in various modern contexts. Diane E. Goldstein, Sylvia Ann Grider, and Jeannie Banks Thomas take ghosts seriously, as they draw on contemporary scholarship that emphasizes both the basis of belief in experience (rather than mere fantasy) and the usefulness of ghost stories. They look closely at the narrative role of such lore in matters such as socialization and gender. And they unravel the complex mix of mass media, commodification, and popular culture that today puts old spirits into new contexts.
Jessica Cruz and Simon Baz both earned their power rings, but are they ready to face the deadly legacy that accompanies them? The very first Lantern—the mad Volthoom—has returned, and his plan to regain the powers he lost billions of years ago leads straight to Earth’s emerald warriors! Before Jessica and Simon can return to Sector 2814 and the comforts of Earth upon completing their Green Lantern training, they must escort a Guardian of the Universe to the ancient Vault of Shadows. But when the Guardian is revealed to be a disguised Volthoom, the ensuing battle thrusts the Green Lanterns into an unexpected journey through time and space! Denied their rings’ full powers, how will they return home in time to defeat Volthoom? Writer Sam Humphries (John Carter, Warlord of Mars) is joined by top-flight artists Ronan Cliquet (ACTION COMICS, BATMAN & ROBIN ETERNAL), Ulises Arreola (SUPERMAN, ACTION COMICS) and others in GREEN LANTERNS VOL. 4: THE FIRST RING, collecting GREEN LANTERNS #22-26.
The #1 New York Times Bestseller! Return to the world of His Dark Materials—now an HBO original series starring Dafne Keen, Ruth Wilson, Andrew Scott, and Lin-Manuel Miranda—in the second volume of Philip Pullman’s new bestselling masterwork The Book of Dust. The windows between the many worlds have been sealed and the momentous adventures of Lyra Silvertongue’s youth are long behind her—or so she thought. Lyra is now a twenty-year-old undergraduate at St. Sophia’s College and intrigue is swirling around her once more. Her daemon Pantalaimon is witness to a brutal murder, and the dying man entrusts them with secrets that carry echoes from their past. The more Lyra is drawn into these mysteries, the less she is sure of. Even the events of her own past come into question when she learns of Malcolm Polstead’s role in bringing her to Jordan College. Now Lyra and Malcolm will travel far beyond the confines of Oxford, across Europe and into the Levant, searching for a city haunted by daemons, and a desert said to hold the truth of Dust. The dangers they face will challenge everything they thought they knew about the world, and about themselves. Praise for The Book of Dust “It’s a stunning achievement, this universe Pullman has created and continues to build on.” —The New York Times “Pullman’s writing is simple, unpretentious, beautiful, true. The conclusion to The Book of Dust can’t come soon enough.”—The Washington Post
Traces the unlikely friendship of a wealthy Afghan youth and a servant's son in a tale that spans the final days of Afghanistan's monarchy through the atrocities of the present day.
