Green Lantern Corps #0

Many, many years ago when Guy Gardner had a raggedy haircut instead of the close cropped buzz cut he normally wears, the universe was on the brink of disaster. At least I think it was. If the universe wasn't, at least the Green Lantern Training Planet was in pretty big trouble. Every recruit but Guy Gardner was killed by this cosmic threat. It was a time of great upheaval.

That's Guy Gardner in this guy's right hand. I don't know who that guy is in his left hand.

Just a few months previous to this long ago time, Guy Gardner was back on Earth feuding with his dad and attending his sister's police academy graduation. His hair is still all long and in his face and he's wearing a leather jacket and riding a motorcycle. Is this a Guy Gardner reboot? Wasn't he a total military man in the Preboot Universe? Anyway, he's just some punk kid that his father thinks can't be counted on. But his sister loves him a lot and his brother seems to be the peacekeeper.

I think this shot screams, "Impending disaster!"

Guy's brother convinces Guy to be the bigger man and try to patch things up with their father. It seems Guy was kicked off the police force for somehow being responsible for innocents being killed. Guy insists the report was a mistake but his father doesn't believe it. They have the kind of fight that ends up resulting in rough things being said that can't be taken back because one of them dies before the other one can apologize.

While Guy begins smashing old pictures of previous generations of Gardners in uniform, his father passes out and a report of an officer down comes over his father's police scanner. Guy either suspects or knows that it's his brother Gerard. I'm not proficient in police lingo so whatever was said might have indicated that Gerard's partner was sending the message or the badge number or some other clue. Anyway, the incident is only a few blocks away and Guy heads off to help out and prove to his father that he's not a complete screw up. He's a hero.

Gardner arrives on the scene where his brother is wounded and his brother's partner has been killed. He beats the crap out of a bunch of gun-wielding thugs with nothing more than a tire iron. This act might not catch the attention of his drunk and angry father but something in the universe notices.

Okay but how did John Stewart get his ring?

Back to the beginning of the story, the bad guy calls Guy Gardner "second-rate" which causes Guy Gardner to kick his fucking ass. Because Hal Jordan is the second rate Green Lantern! And nobody compares Gardner to that whiny asshole Jordan. Guy puts this guy Xar in a Green Lantern Science Cell. Xar threatens Guy in the way a villain threatens a guy that means he'll be back in a future issue after the Guardians have been defeated and all of the prisoners on Oa end up free. And then Gardner becomes a full-fledged Green Lantern.

After this he meets Hal Jordan but that isn't very important or exciting. It's just stupid Hal Jordan.

Green Lantern Corps #0 Rating: Where the fuck was John Stewart's origin?!