Hal Jordan & the Green Lantern Corps #21 Ends in Tragedy for [SPOILER]

Russ Burlingame

05/25/2017 11:27 pm EDT

This week's issue of Hal Jordan and the Green Lantern Corps threw readers for a loop and took an emotional toll on one of the Earth Lanterns that he's not likely to recover from quickly.

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While battling a powerful villain named Sarko, who claimed to hail from the future and was doing a remarkably effective job of keeping the Green Lanterns from touching him at all, the Lanterns finally figured out a way to defeat Sarko -- but it would involve killing him.

Throughout the storyline, what was known about Sarko was that he came from the future and was obsessed with Sinestro. He believed that the Sinestro Corps needed to rise to be the primary source of order in the universe, since the Green Lantern Corps had failed. Traveling back in time, he fancied himself the "savior of the Sinestro Corps" and believed he would be forever remembered in the Book of Parallax.

His death likely altered that perceived destiny, but more than that, it reduced Kyle Rayner to a crying mess, as the Torchbearer revealed that Sarko was in fact his son with Soranik Natu.

Natu is Sinestro's daughter and a member of the Sinestro Corps, and Sarko had previously referred to the relationship between Rayner and Natu as a "defilement" of the Corps.

You can check out the official synopsis for the issue below. If you want to read Hal Jordan and the Green Lantern Corps #21, you should be able to get it at your local comic shop -- or you can pick up a digital copy here.

PRISM OF TIME finale! To stop Sarko and save the future of the Green Lantern Corps, a Lantern must die—but can a returning Green Lantern find a way to save a life instead of taking one?

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