>With the "Rebirth" launch of the new Hal Jordan and the Green Lantern Corps title, author Robert Venditti is putting Hal back into a team book again, along with Guy Gardner, John Stewart, and a brand new role for Kyle Rayner.
>The series starts July 13 with the Ethan Van Sciver-drawn one-shot Hal Jordan and the Green Lantern Corps: Rebirth #1, which Venditti said will start the road toward "bringing things back" to the Green Lantern universe from the post-Crisis world. Then in July 29's Hal Jordan and the Green Lantern Corps #1, with art by Rafa Sandoval, Venditti will start the first story arc, titled "Sinestro's Law," starring the most iconic Green Lantern villain in his role as leader of the Sinestro Corps.
>While Green Lanterns, which stars Lanterns Jessica Cruz and Simon Baz, will take place on Earth and the surrounding Sector 2814, the Hal Jordan and the Green Lantern Corps series takes place mostly in outer space, incorporating "all the aliens and all the alien races and all the space-based villains — all of these things, they're all on the table, and we're going to make use of a lot of it," Venditti said.
>Newsarama talked to the writer about how this continues the story from the "New 52" while also providing a jumping-on point for new readers, while bringing back some of the more classic elements of the Corps.
>Newsarama: Rob, you've been writing Green Lantern stories for awhile. What's changed with "Rebirth"?
>Robert Venditti: Our hope with "Rebirth" is to have new jumping-on points for audiences, new status quos, while also embracing the very long, storied histories of these characters. That's very much what we're doing with Hal Jordan and the Green Lantern Corps.
>If you were reading the "New 52" Green Lantern book, then you know that Hal was in possession of Krona's Gauntlet; that's had an unintended effect on him, where it was transforming him into almost a being of pure will.
HJ&GLC Rebirth unlettered preview starts here.