DC Comics Announces New Elsewhere Series ‘Green Lantern: Doomed Cosmos’

Green Lantern: Doomed Cosmos is a new six-issue DC Elseworlds series by writer Dan Watters and artist Kyle Hotz. that reimagines the Green Lantern mythology as a huge cosmic war in which humans are the enemy and Hal Jordan could be the universe’s only hope. An intergalactic crusade in which only a few are willing to stand up and be counted.

Here’s more on the plotline:

“For centuries, the Empire of Humanity has swept across the universe, laying siege to the cosmos planet by planet until all kneel before the might of the human race. Only the heavily militarized Green Lantern Corps dares oppose the human crusade.

And no human has ever fought for the Corps against the Empire. Until Hal Jordan.

Once a soldier fighting on behalf of humanity, Hal was betrayed by his battle-brother Oliver Queen and left for dead on an alien world. Rescued and deprogrammed by the Green Lantern Corps, Hal is now the Corps’ only human warrior and a powerful strategic weapon in its war against humankind. Hal’s blood-soaked odyssey will carry him through the burning ruins of a DC Universe unlike any readers have seen before, as Hal fights for peace by taking the battle to the shores of Hell itself.”

Speaking of his approach to the art on this sci-fi superhero series, Hotz stated:

“Visually, I am trying to walk the line between over-the-top space opera and the emotional beats of the story. Apart from being a Green Lantern fan from when I was just a little kid, my prep for this was really spending time studying some of the best war films. I want to get the feeling across that the Lanterns are beat up, tired, and certainly the underdogs. Their armor is cracked and broken, and their weapons are held together with tape and wire. These are soldiers nearing the end of their fight.”

Green Lantern: Doomed Cosmos #1 is out on Wednesday, 20th January, 2027, with variant covers by Björn Barends, Steve Beach, and Ashley Wood.