Throughout Infinite Frontier, Young Justice’s Teen Lantern simply went via a ceremony of passage for each Inexperienced Lantern Corps. member.
Warning: The next comprises spoilers for “Inexperienced Lanterns,” in Infinite Frontier #0, by Geoffrey Thorne, Dexter Soy, Alex Sinclair and ALW’s Troy Peteri, on sale now.
The Inexperienced Lantern Corps is full of 1000’s of members, spanning throughout the cosmos. This large intergalactic police power converges on their house planet of Oa.
And because the DC Universe steps into the Infinite Frontier period, the Teen Lantern, DC’s youngest Inexperienced Lantern, has simply arrived on Oa for the primary time in her profession.
“Inexperienced Lanterns,” in Infinite Frontier #0, by Geoffrey Thorne and Dexter Soy, spotlights The Emerald Knights’ return to their homeworld. Touring via house, John Stewart and Simon Baz sit within the entrance of their ship. Sitting within the again is Keli Quintela, aka Teen Lantern. Keli is brushing up on her Inexperienced Lantern historical past, as John desires to organize her to fulfill the Guardians of the Universe. Simon is a bit confused about who Teen Lantern is, however John clarifies that the Guardians will need to meet her, contemplating the unusual circumstances behind her powers. John additional particulars that, because the galaxy’s biggest powers are coming collectively because the United Planets, the Guardians want all fingers on deck to think about their place within the galaxy.
Keli is an particularly necessary issue, because the Guardians must determine what to do together with her. Earlier than any additional dialogue, Keli joins her fellow lanterns on the entrance of the ship, as they’ve arrived on Oa. All Keli can do is marvel on the Inexperienced Lanterns’ homeworld.
Keli joined John after their preliminary assembly in Young Justice #20, by Brian Michael Bendis and David Walker. Following a team-up between Young Justice and the Justice League, John kindly requested Keli to provide him her energy gauntlet. The Inexperienced Lantern instructed Keli that the facility wasn’t hers, and he or she wanted to return it. Keli refused, nevertheless, and after they met three days later, issues took a extra aggressive flip.
John instructed Keli how harmful and unlawful the alien tech she possessed actually was, claiming it should not exist within the first place. It’s because Keli would not even possess an influence ring like most Inexperienced Lanterns. As an alternative, Teen Lantern wields a gauntlet that has an exterior battery, which apparently hacks into the Inexperienced Lanterns’ energy supply. This weapon was bestowed upon Keli by a dying alien, who she mistook for an precise Inexperienced Lantern. Regardless of the unusual means by which Keli procured her powers, she nonetheless claimed that she earned her skills. Young Justice backed their teammate, forcing John to relent. The Inexperienced Lantern mentioned she nonetheless wanted coaching, with Keli agreeing to fulfill with him later.
Now, as Keli is taken below John’s wing, she appears very desirous to embrace all the things that comes with being a Inexperienced Lantern. On the way in which to Oa, Teen Lantern research her Inexperienced Lantern historical past very intently, exhibiting a fantastic curiosity. When Keli known as to the entrance of the ship, she even appears disillusioned, saying that she was nearly to succeed in “the half in regards to the disaster.” By the point the Inexperienced Lanterns reached Oa, Keli is in sheer awe, showing very enthusiastic about her involvement with the Inexperienced Lantern Corps. All of this enthusiasm lends itself effectively to Keli’s earlier statements in Young Justice when she instructed John about how being a lantern gave her an actual function for the primary time.
It is one factor for Keli to seek out function by preventing alongside her fellow heroes in Young Justice, but in becoming a member of the Inexperienced Lantern Corps, Teen Lantern is changing into a part of a galaxy-spanning group. The corps shares Teen Lantern’s energy and its accompanying accountability. By bringing her to Oa, John Stewart is giving Keli a function that reaches throughout the cosmos. In probably becoming a member of the Inexperienced Lantern Corps, Teen Lantern has entered a brand new world of potentialities.