Green Lantern #20: Have We Seen That Hooded Figure Before?

Geoff Johns’s final, monthly Green Lantern comic–the issue just released yesterday, in which the various Lantern Corps face off against Volthoom and the final fate of Hal Jordan is revealed–features an interesting, mostly-anonymous character…but one that was quickly recognizable if you were looking at it in the right light.The figure, a hooded narrator who tells a new recruit the story of the battle with the First Lantern, appears as part of the story’s framing device. He is, apparently, the caretaker of the Book of Oa in the indeterminate future. And while his identity is revealed in-story, what’s more interesting was that when I first got a look at him, my thought was, “Oh, its…