You Can Call Me John Stewart

[A Green Lantern with an Attitude]

Written By Kal-El

Due to a most wanted or should i say Most "Voted" for during the past two weeks poll, The victorious goes to The Green Lantern John Stewart, Voters has chosen John Stewart to be our Origins Post for this week. We'll try this again from time to time, hope you'll enjoy it. Thanks again for voting!

["I Got 57.1% Votes....Dude"]

John Stewart, an Architect and a former U.S. Marine soldier, who is now and was selected by the Guardians as a Green Lantern Backup for Hal Jordan. John Stewart was known to have a belligerent attitude to authority figures, as most other Green Lantern including Hal Jordan objected about Stewart, The Guardians stood by their chosen one.

For those who haven't known what a Green Lantern Powers are, John Stewart’s ring provides him with the abilities of all other Green Lanterns. These abilities include flight and limited invulnerablility. As with all other Green Lanterns, the ring is a weapon of the mind and powered by will, therefore only limited to the wearer’s imagination. Like all Green Lanterns, Stewart's personality affects his ring's creations, giving them a solid, architectural quality.

Although Stewart had a bad start, after messing up badly his first assignment, which was to protect a racist politician and John Stewart took advantage of adverting an accident to embarrass him in the process. However, he soon proved to the world his worth when an African American Assassin shot the politician, but John Stewart refused to intervene with Hal Jordan to move in response to the attack. Stewart had good reasons for this apparent dereliction of duty when he stopped a gunman from killing a police officer in the outside parking lot at the event while Jordan was pursuing a decoy. When Jordan confronted Stewart about his actions, Stewart explained that the politician had staged it for political advantage. With that adventure, Jordan concluded that Stewart was an excellent recruit after all. A True Green Lantern. As time goes on, John Stewart filled in as the Green Lantern when Hal Jordan was unavailable, this also includes most missions of the Justice League. Eventually he gave up being a Green Lantern.

Shortly in 1980, The Guardians selected John Stewart to be a full time member of the corp, He was now a full time duty Green Lantern. In time he was also married to Katma Tui, The Green Lantern of the planet of Korugar. Katma Tui was initially assign to be John's trainer on how he could utilize full potential of the Power Ring. Both John and Katma fought alongside other famous Green Lantern with the likes of Hal Jordan, Kilowog, Arisia, Salakk etc.

His real drama came about with John's power ring was rendered powerless through the evil schemes of Sinestro and when Star Sapphire killed Katma-Tui. Stewart's life began to unravel. He was falsely accused of killing Carol Ferris (Star Sapphire's Alterego). He was sent to jail in South Nambia after another false accusation of theft. John freed himself with his old ring which was now re-powered with the help of fellow Green Lantern, Hal Jordan. As a result John inadvertently freed both a terrorist and a serial killer. Hal Jordan confronted John Stewart about his actions, the two emerald guardian went blows until John Stewart realises the "revolutionaries" he had been aiding intended to murder innocent civilians.

John finally forgave himself for his past mistakes and grew into a much stronger, a more complex hero when he became the caretaker of the "Mosaic World", a patchwork of communities from multiple planets that had been brought to Oa by an insane Guardian who had raped John’s mind. Although bitter and sullen at his assignment at first he overcame this and, using his formidable intellect and talent for unconventional thinking, Stewart forged the Mosaic into a new society and eventually became the first mortal Guardian of the Universe, known as the Master Builder. As his reward for this new level of awareness, John was reunited with his late wife, Katma Tui. However, tragedy struck once again and Hal Jordan, possessed by Parallax, destroyed both the Guardians and the Central Power Battery, robbing John of his newfound powers and his resurrected wife.

Following the comic event Emerald Twilight and the collapse of the Green Lantern Corps, John Stewart was recruited by the Controllers to command the Darkstars, (another interstellar peacekeeping force). Using the new resources at his command, John evacuated the Mosaic cities from Oa prior to its destruction and served the Darkstars with distinction until he was crippled in battle with Grayven on the planet Rann. John eventually regained the use of his legs as a parting gift from Jordan before Jordan sacrificed himself to destroy the Sun Eater. Soon afterwards, he accepted a new ring entrusted to The Current Green Lantern, Kyle Rayner by a time-lost Hal Jordan and joined the Justice League.

After The Parallax Era,with the return of Hal Jordan and the Guardians, the Corps has been reorganized. Each sector of space now has two Green Lanterns assigned to it, and Stewart and Jordan now share the responsibilities for Earth’s sector, 2814.

After the dissolution of the Justice League in the aftermath of the events depicted in the 2004 Identity Crisis, and the destruction of their Watchtower headquarters on the moon, John Stewart has begun playing a larger role in metahuman affairs, working with many former Justice Leaguers.During the opening "One Year Later" storyline of Green Lantern, Hal Jordan tells Green Arrow that John Stewart is on an off-world undercover mission. The details concerning this mission were revealed in Green Lantern #17. John Stewart disguised himself as "Hunger Dog" to investigate in Europe. When John hears that Hal Jordan is being held captive by Amon Sur and Loragg, he goes off to rescue him. This leads to a confrontation with Amon Sur, who turns out to be the son of their predecessor, Abin Sur. During the fight, Amon receives a ring from the Sinestro Corps and vanishes.

In Justice League of America Storyline, John Stewart and Wonder Woman designed one of the League’s new headquarters, The Hall. John later resumes his role as the League's resident Green Lantern upon Hal Jordan's request.

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