Green Lantern: Mosaic
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Green Lantern: Mosaic was a DC Comics series starring the Green Lantern John Stewart. The series had its origin in a story arc of the same name in Green Lantern vol.3,. The ongoing series began in June of 1992 and ended in November of 1993, lasting 18 issues. It was written by Gerard Jones and primarily drawn by Cully Hamner.
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[edit] Storyline
Green Lantern Hal Jordan, investigating the disappearance of Evergreen City on Earth, discovers that Appa Ali Apsa, the lone remaining Guardian of the Universe left behind after his brothers left our dimension has been driven insane by loneliness. For companionship, Apsa has been uprooting cities from all the worlds he has visited and transporting them to the planet Oa, creating a patchwork known as the Mosaic World.
John Stewart, captured by Apsa, summons Jordan through their power rings and, together with Guy Gardner and the newly-returned Guardians, defeat Apsa.
Believing that Apsa's experiment should be allowed to progress to its conclusion, the Guardians elected to maintain his strange mosaic of communities rather than return the inhabitants to their homeworlds. Accordingly, the Guardians assigned Stewart to act as the Green Lantern of the Mosaic world. Stewart was charged with maintaining the peace among the different communities as well as attempting to construct a cohesive society from the disparate races.
[edit] Themes
Most of the series' stories centers on Stewart's spiritual journey as a Green Lantern. Plagued by doubt over mourning the death of his wife Katma Tui, Stewart begins as a sullen and ineffective protector, constantly brooding over his past failures and allowing his fellow Green Lantern Ch'p to die in a tragic accident. Themes of race and power are also central to the story.
As the series progresses, Stewart is forced to confront his past through the efforts of Hal Jordan, the Guardians, and a ghostly apparition of the deceased Ch'p. Stewart eventually evolves to a higher moral plane and becomes the first human to ascend to the power of one of the Guardians of the Universe.
[edit] Cancellation
In an unusual move, and although sales of the book were very strong, Green Lantern: Mosaic was cancelled early into its run. In an interview, Cully Hamner revealed the reasons behind the cancellation:
(A)s I was told at the time, it didn’t fit with DC editorial vision (whatever that means). Sales didn’t matter, fan support didn’t matter; the first issue sold about 210,000 copies and my last issue sold about 70,000, so there was plenty of support for the book. It was marked for cancellation when issue #5 came out, and they allowed Gerry Jones a year to wrap it up, but there was no doubt that it was being cancelled because somebody upstairs just didn’t care for it. So, I had a feeling after a while of creatively being against a brick wall, and got out before the end. You pays your money, you takes your chances. That’s the biz.[1]
