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Warning : SPOILERS ThroughJustice League # 2 .
It has been known for some meter that the line - up for Scott Snyder’sJustice Leaguewould include John Stewart - the second Earthling to fall in theGreen Lantern Corps . What stay obscure , however , was why the team enrol John Stewart rather than any other Green Lantern . The second issue ofJustice Leaguereveals that the team has a specific need of John Stewart ’s special acquisition , experience and knowledge .
create by Dennis O’Neil and Neal Adams for their now fabled run onGreen Lantern / Green Arrow , John Stewart was one of several superheroes who helped to diversify DC Comics in the 1970s . A Marine who became an architect after ending his hitch of tariff , Stewart broke multiple stereotype as one of the astonishingly few superheroes who had serve in the military . Stewart would go on to serve as the acting leader of the Green Lantern Corps in the absence of the Guardians of the Universe in the reality ofDC Rebirthand still holds a posture of respect in the The Corps to this day .
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Justice League # 2reveals just how well - regarded John Stewart is by The Guardians , as the issue open with him in the thick of a secret charge to supervise the decay of the cosmic membrane in the wake of the recentcollapse of The Source Wall . Stewart is then contacted through a plant in his ship by Swamp Thing , who relays a message from Batman necessitate Stewart to return to Earth to aid the Justice League flock with a strange cosmic entity that they have dub The integrality .
Stewart taste to shrug his way out of the request , pronounce that Hal Jordan ( the first Green Lantern of Earth ) could do anything he could do . Batman disagrees , say that they need Stewart ’s financial aid in fussy but not because of Stewart ’s broad knowledge and experience in make out with cosmic quirk from when he was acting loss leader of the Green Lantern Corps . Batman says that The Justice League ask an architect instead of a soldier - a man who " uses his noesis to make things that get to beyond what seems possible . "
Stewart still traverse Batman , enjoin that the John Stewart who was more designer than soldier got a lot of masses killed and then inquires as to why Batman is draw near him about fall in the team rather of Martian Manhunter . This is a reference toCosmic Odyssey- a Greco-Roman DC Comics storyline in which John Stewart ’s belief he could undertake a problem alone led to the destruction of the planet Xanshi and a major salad dressing down by J’onn J’onzz . give Martian Manhunter ’s part of gibbosity in the newJustice League , this promises some intemperate drama between the two Italian sandwich in the issue to come . It also confirms that there is much more to John Stewart ’s place on the squad than merely paying protection to the classicJustice League Unlimitedanimated series .
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Justice League # 2is now available fromDC Comics .
